deciding what is good for you or they're all we need to hear from you we need to represent you we need to know what you want what you like so we can help you if you don't come forward thank you all and before we proceed believe please turn off your cell phones mr kirk mr chair proceeding with the presentation of testimony on agenda items we've established a limited interactive communication that enables individuals from to provide testimony from our district offices individuals who wish to offer testimony from one of the ninety and molokai set up a district office staff individuals who were offer testimony in the chamber please sign up at the desk located in the eighth floor lobby just outside the chamber door testimony at all locations is limited to the items listed on today's agenda pursuant to the rules of the counsel each testify or may be allowed to testify for up to three minutes when testifying please state your name and the name of any organization you represent so what's going on in this community thank you very much thank you mr cover members of the need for clarification see none thank you for your testimony this morning testify in the council chamber the first individual to testify in the council chamber is dick mayor testifying on committee report sixteen to twenty one and come to commute cation sixteen dash twenty two it's been used in the community for decades a century but the land under it was not owned by the county and this will give an opportunity for the people of color of a country area to continue practicing and playing ball they are using the facility  hopefully the county will be able to maintain it and have control over at the time comes to expand it or modify it the county will own the land and anything will be easier to do that so i very much appreciate your taking the time and making the effort to to get that facility there's a second facility nearby which is very much parallel and that is the cooler community center which the county has spent several million dollars on i'm hoping that it be appropriate the funds that you will soon authorize the funds  there's been a lot of discussion about the process here and i'm hoping that when you go with that you will actually ask the lanai advisory committee which is still constituted as you know from the county ordinances  that community plan advise you can use don't end when they make their recommendations but rather continue until the ordinance is actually adopted and that you make it real to contact each of them and that when you hold you here india that they will as a body actually meet with you to discuss the changes that have taken place a very significant changes that took place the number disturbed by part of the process and that was the constant changes being recommended by the planning director to the plan after the advisory committee and the planning commission made its recommendations to the playing director keep coming so much so that at the very last meeting of the planning committee the planning director submitted a whole another page of recommendation recommended changes to that even after the public had a chance to testify people couldn't see it the public in the audience here couldn't see it we testified that morning and  after all the testimony was closed submitted a whole bunch of changes which again the council in this at the planning committee level adopted i think those recommendations as well as many of the others made after it left are something that the people  do not like it changes the direction of the work in and i would hope that you will reverse many of those changes and go back to the original language that was put in there by the committee or with the two committees over there  would very much appreciate you looking into that and holding meetings with the women i and getting their sense of what they would want over there thank you very much thank you mr mair members of the need for clarification of history mirrors testimony see none thank you for being here this make you very much mr clerk mr chair there are no further individuals signed up to testify in the council chamber is there any and additional individuals in the council chamber or at the district offices who would like to offer testimony please identi chair there are no other individuals in the district offices nor the chamber who wish to offer testimony thank mr clerk members i know that we've received written testimony without objection or that into the record thank you and with no objection will close public testimony for today thank you mr chair proceeding with minutes you have before you for approval the minutes of the regular meeting of january eighth two thousand and sixteen it's a good month thank you chair move to approve the regular minutes of january eighth two thousand and six budget finance committee the following committee reports committee report sixteen dash twelve recommending that the proposed resolution untitled authorizing the transfer of an unencumbered appropriation balance within the department of parks and recreation fiscal year two thousand and sixteen budget be adopted before you committee report sixteen dash thirteen recommending that the proposed resolution and titled transferring funds within the office of the county council of council services program be adopted kind of committee report sixteen dash fourteen record that the proposed bill entitled a bill for an ordinance amending the fiscal year two thousand and sixteen budget for the county of maui as a pertains to appendix a part one grant revenue schedule of grants by departments and programs department of foreign public safety united states department of agriculture u s d a forest service an ordinance amending the fiscal year two thousand and sixteen budget for the county of maui as it pertains to appendix a part one grant revenue schedule of grants by departments and programs department of public works federal highway administration federal aid and other transportation grants be passed on first reading time to move forward for first reading the first bill two assists the kind of community plan area can i rode improvements for the four hundred thousand that will start the plenty in construction pre construction requirements including the surveying since we are aware that the state of four is the property owner adjacent to the counties right avoids the second is again another just pretty requests to your budget committee that we are putting for three hundred forty thousand to assist a sub we development the regional traffic master plan and this sort of says in the secure in addition of federal funds to move projects in so we forward to q members any further discussion mr couch thank you mr chair and i want to thank mr holcombe for bringing this up and hopefully with this potentially new organization we might thousand and sixteen respectively yet before you committee report sixteen dash seventeen recommending the following one of the proposed bill entitled a bill for an ordinance amending the fiscal year two thousand and sixteen budget for the county of maui as it pertains to estimated revenues department of environmental management department of finance department of liquor control department of parks and recreation department of public works department of water supply total operating appropriations and total appropriations operating capital program projects be passed on first reading of the order to print and to that the proposed bill intitled a bill for an ordinance amending appendix a of the fiscal year two thousand and sixteen budget for the county of maui as it pertains to part two special purpose revenues schedule of revolving special funds for fisk the year two thousand and sixteen plan review permit processing inspection revolving fund be passed on first reading i clerk as read this is the budget amendment to take care of the additional funding requirements to me there are various countries throughout legations for bargaining in this two three and four thank you thank you members any further discussion on this i don't see none and all those in favor please signify by saying i those opposed say no as your passes with seven eyes zero nos two excused just for the record bills be in position to consider additional revenue generation sources to assist the department of transportation in providing the services and programs that have been requested through the county basically this is  the program that is funded through the highway fund and currently the highway funding is being under duress because of of lack new growth and increased demands from the fun for more uses again we will be discussing this in the budget session upcoming budget session but i would ask that the members support this as another way for us to help pay for things that the community is request thank you thank you  record bill fourteen two thousand and sixteen you have before you from your economic development energy agriculture recreation committee the following committee reports committee report sixteen dash one thousand recommend in the following one to the proposed resolution entitled urging support for th program to allow the cultivation of industrial hemp and distribution of its seeds in hawaii be adopted and to that kind of communication fourteen dash two one three be filed mr who's been moved to adopt the recommendations in committee report sixteen dash support legislation to establish a pilot program to allow the cultivation of industrial hemp and distribution of its seeds in hawaii for purposes of agricultural or academic research your committee notes that industrial have is an important crop that was recognized by president barack obama when he signed the farm bill of two thousand and fourteen authorizing institutions of higher education and state departments of agriculture to grow industrial have for research in agricultural pilot programs upon approval by the relevant state legislature in two thousand and fourteen the hawaii state legislature and acted act fifty six two thousand and fourteen which authorized the two year initial study on hemp mediation and biofuel crop research on wahoo by the college of tropical agriculture and human resources university of hawaii at manoa the study results were favorable showing that there is a significant potential for successful hemp agriculture industry in hawaii your community notes to agriculture is an important component of the economic viability of my county with the cultivation of sugarcane playing a primary book role and its closure however on january sixth two thousand and sixteen alexander and baldwin the saw commercial sugar cane grower in maui hawaii announced that it will cease sugarcane businesses by the end of the year in light of this news dear community recognize a program to allow cultivation of industrial hemp and distribution of his seeds could be particularly important to create jobs and provide opportunities for expansion of the agriculture chapter two of five by statute allows agriculture tourism on a working farm in agricultural zone areas as an accessory used in a county where there is an ordinance or regulating agricultural tourism and that has overnight accommodations of up to twenty one consecutive days as a permitted use in the agricultural district if the council and acts in ordinance regulating agricultural tourism activities set forth in chapter two o five your committee notes that the proposed bill would amend the comprehensive zoning ordinance to establish an agricultural tourism activities as an accessory used in the agriculture district subject to the restrictions including evidence of a farm plant and active farming approved by the department of planning insurance requirements and registration requirements that agriculture tourism activities must be conducted on the site on an active agriculture operations for the enjoyment education or involvement of visitors to promote agriculture and may include a ranch or farm stay of up to twenty one days horseback riding playmaking cultural or living history activities and other listed activities as defined in the proposed bill agriculture tourism is a means of purporting promoting economic development for county residents while preserving agricultural lands and open space according to the testimony amalia farms and ranches informed your community the ability to provide visitors accommodations or other forms of agric agricultural tourism mail out some land owners to keep their property in agricultural use  i respectfully ask the council for its support of this recommendations this bill is going to the planning commissions and i assured the committee that it will come back to our committee for further completely polished and it still needs a lot of committee work on it thank you thank you very much members of the discussion mr come to think it was the chair and i want to thank mr boozman for bringing this item up as well commission to get their thoughts on it as well before it comes into the committee and really really work hard on it so that's what this resolution is forced to send it down to the planning committees and let them get their  thoughts it involves so i also urge that everybody take a look at that this is something that's happening again worldwide and this will help those that  farm get some income for their their farm because as most farmers know that farming alone isn't going to pay the bills so urge everybody supported us thank you thank you support it with reservations this morning i think one key area of discussion that i think needs to be held eventually and maybe this is some you can ask the plainly commissions to consider  part of the initial investment of the cut council is to give some guidance to the commissions on what we are looking for in their review and response back to come so now i would say is i am going to bring up be of seventy to agricultural dedications next month and this will definitely have an impact on the dedication especially whether or not we want to then still continue with the considerations of level of subsidy for so i say this is something we should be very diligent on we should be very well aware of the financial ramifications of what every decision or or direction of change we would consider as well as how our and what do we want from the agricultural sector so i say this because you know you know you know of my intention to reduce the thirty million dollars subsidy for agriculture and if they want to resume and have heard again from some of the potential options of over overnight accommodations well i think it would be great to hear how real property look at pushing everything into the hotel category because this is not something that i think should be not to the benefit of this county that's based so thank you very much but completely supportive in fact just not too long ago got some phone calls in regards to people who are doing ag tourism in west maui and they were curious what kind of taxation what kind of taxes are they  pain i'm sure probably the g e in the business type but you know on in regards to us the county which are really getting so i don't know it's something that i told the people that i would look into and i think this is all relevant to this discussion the burner and this is going to help assist him in moving forward what he was working on so i was wondering if you would allow mr men to just say a couple words in regards to that because that was one of the main reasons communicated that this ordinance that section of that of the h r s two or five was really designed for maori county although it can't specifically say maori county it does  indicate a county with three islands and we're the only county we're three highlights so he was worried about there were a couple amendments that are still pending that carried over that are still alive up on the sixth year so here he was concerned and informed again the working group this year that he'd like to see some activity done at least something to stay a lead to stand on to say that the council my county was working on some kind of in the enabling legislation i believe mr victor reno also had conversations with mr english this recently at the opening  ceremonies at the ledge so that being said i did request that it be pushed out to the commissions for their review and as i stated i think that's well as this cochran about the impacts that this statute or this ordinance may have on our our taxes and that another component that we need to work on as well as possibly tightening up the language but clearly i admit that it's not a polished version and it's it does need much more committee work by sending it to the commission i believe we can get maybe a broader perspective of some of the language that's in there i think they have enough direction based off of our committee reports and the committee minutes that i'm going to request that those be sent over to the commission as well so they can that they can review that but just to get a third eye on it and then it should be coming back in one hundred twenty days or one hundred something like that one hundred twenty days so we'll have plenty of opportunity to look into the tax implications while it's  pending in the commissions and as well as allowing mr senator english to say that the council is working on it and now that for he can defend any type of amendments i know that there was one that was filed two weeks ago regarding the two to a five section so i believe that if we allow mr english to have that ability to defend it by saying that there's something pending it will preserve at least our ability to have the option to an act of this this ordinance i mean we always have the the right to not pass an ordinance and let it just went on but if we do the determination on these future type of considerations not planning department you know for me this is not the right department for me to put my faith in confidence to meet those future excuse mr clerk for the record resolution sixteen dash nine you have before you from your planning committee the following committee report committee report sixteen desh twenty one recommending the following one that a public hearing be held on the proposed to adopt updated lanai community plan b scheduled for first reading following the public hearing and three that kind of communication fourteen dash to eighty three be filed mr couch thank you mr chair moved to adopt the recommendations in committee report sixteen dollars twenty one so a motion for mr couch for the second for mr carroll mr couch thank you mr chair beginning on january fifteenth two thousand and fifteen and meeting nine times there after your committee met to review the proposed bill to adopt an updated lanai community plan an unprecedented precedent in meeting committee work we had community interaction all way through the process and i want to thank the committee members for allowing me the leeway to do that it was it was well received by the community you committee recognize the efforts of the community plan advisory committee and the law and i plan and commission in providing recommendations on the updated community plan and was careful to balance the concern the recommendations of the advisory bodies the public the state and county agencies including the planning department you committee was sensitive to the concerns expressed in the public testimony that some revisions by your committee are not consistent with recommendations of the advisory bodies taken by the council so it's not a precedent of thing the updated committee plan represents your committee's collective decision on how best to balance competing concerns and your committee has accordingly approved modified or amended some recommendations of the advisory bodies the majority the recommendations made by the advisory bodies are unchanged the advisory bodies are a key part of the council's policy making process for community plans but the council is ultimately responsible for the community plan and must approve a version it determines best serves the citizens of the county i respectfully asked the council support of your committee's recommendations to hold a one a public hearing on the tell you how our community is never dull for a smoke community as such as ours however our community is very sincere and dedicated to the betterment of our total aisle and i don't think any member of the council questions that dedication and a lot of people have for our island so saying that chairman you know it's difficult for me this morning  to be fully in support of it since i understand the concerns that were brought up by members of the advisory committee as well as the planning commission and for me you know we started off  for me that department has found a way to kind of twists what the company has been pushing and has placed in that current plan for ten years and it's part of this thing regarding the valid what is being brought up by our community i think we need to address it so i'm happy to move this forward so we can get to that night and face our community in their eyes when we discuss this and make our final decisions which at this time of year i'm not sure whether i'm going to support it or not but i was supported today to get it to law and i mr chairman because i think it's only proper we do this in front of our people that  impacted by this and so saying that i would hope and i'm going to let the members know now i will be putting in an amendment to take out that sentence about on this specifically prohibited and i'm going to see if we can put back the current language in our of our community that as a replacement other than that for me you know yes the council has made changes in the past but in the same point the chairman we have to remember this is on now for many of our residents their third participation in community planning the third time and this is the third of the so they've been with us throughout the decades and not neal fights enough the need for people to community members have taken an interest over a long period of time to ensure that the county provides its fair and requires services that each district needs be made some changes that required us to have island plant now we went through all of the term of two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve to come up with the maoi item plan and then there's community plans underneath about an eight of the chapters are the island plan component so it is a bit different from the old community plans and that's unfortunately why it's a little bit more wieldy than the old community by my so the and that  who have been a part of it and they're been constantly you know kind of hounding on this particular sentence in this and what have you and it's been really really tough to continue to support this to move it out and move  out but that's the process and so i'm supportive as mr okama said in the process as in the document definitely feel the need for some emens and i'm looking forward to that whatever mr if you're passive with seven eyes or a nose to excuse just occurred mr chair proceeding with kind of communications you have before you come to communication sixteen to sixteen from the director of finance transmitting to the council to reports on the settlement of claims as of december thirty first two thousand and fifteen the comma thank you very much german unless there is a requests regarding components of the reports from the director for industry and settlements as of december clerk you have before you kind of communication sixteen to eighteen from the budget director transmitted to the council the following proposed bills untitled one a bill for an ordinance amending to fiscal year two thousand and sixteen budget for the county of maui as it pertains to estimated revenues community reclamation facility filter modification total capital program project appropriations and total preparations operating capital improvement projects and to a bill for an ordinance amending ordinance number forty two twenty six bill number thirty three two thousand and fifteen relating to authorizing the extend until april twenty ninth two thousand and sixteen the deadline for the council to approve and i community plan the extension of six weeks would allow the council time to hold the required public hearing on one i we had some issues in getting people in a little earlier so  know if we had to push it back my understanding is that the current plans are to schedule the public hearing and first reading on one eye on saturday march twelfth two thousand and sixteen with second reading tentatively scheduled for council's regular meeting on april one thousand and sixteen i urge the council supported stickler for the record resolution sixteen dash ten mr chair proceeding with kind of communications for referral the following kind of communications are recommended for referral to the following committees as noted to your budget and finance committee kind of communication sixteen dash twenty from the county auditor transmitting to the council the county of maui comprehensive annual financial report kaffir for the fiscal year two thousand for the fiscal year ended june thirtieth two thousand and fifteen communication sixteen dash twenty one from the county auditor transmitting to the council the department of water supply financial statements and supplemental information for the fiscal year and june thirtieth two thousand and fifteen submitted by n n k c b s incorporated to economic development energy agriculture and recreation committee kind of communication sixteen to twenty two from the director of parks and recreation transmitting to the council a proposed resolution entitled authorizing the acquisition of the why of jim from the federal credit union members of the objections to the referrals as read by the clerk and so ordered was declared mr chair proceeding with ordinance a second and final reading you have before you bill number four two thousand and sixteen entitled a bill for an ordinance amending the fiscal year two thousand and sixteen budget for the county of maui as  pertains to estimated revenues community plan area road improvements old hochelaga highway reconstruction total capital program project appropriations on total appropriations operating a couple improvement projects project to be placed within the general obligation bonds of the county of my we for that purpose thank you thank you mr holcombe a members only for the discussion on this item these items see none and all those in amending the fiscal year two thousand and sixteen budget for the county of maui as it pertains to appendix a part one gram revenue schedule of grants by departments in programs department of public works federal highway administration federal aid mr holcombe chairing to move the bill a number six two thousand and to seven million dollars funding from the federal department of ministration for federal aid and other transportation projects in this county any further discussion members see none  those in favor please signify by saying those opposed say no measure passes with seven eyes are on those and two excuse mr clarke mr chair the council has before it again kind of communication sixteen dash collins thank you chairman under sixteen issue eighteen members you see two bills for an ordinance at this time a move to pass bill one on first reading thousand and sixteen budget for the county of my way as it pertains to estimated revenues or look with the holy community plan harry sewer or the cucolo waste water reclamation facility filter modification total capital improvement on the attachment to the hand of we gave you you will see us making those appropriate estimated adjustments dependent upon action by the council  and and so this is what i'm asking you for your consideration and that you will see the new adjustments on the various items as listed under estimated revenues and i just went on the total estimated  if there's any questions chairman i'm happy to respond thank you thank you mr holcombe members any questions or further discussion on this item is the normal housekeeping adjustments that we need to make question based on of the county of my week to enter into intergovernmental agreements for loans from the state of hawaii s water pollution control revolving fund for various waste water projects fiscal year two thousand and sixteen budget ordinance mr clerk for the record bills fifteen and sixteen two thousand and sixteen respectively mr chair proceeding with unfinished business you have before you bill number eighty nine two thousand and fifteen entitled a bill for an ordinance amending the fiscal year two thousand and sixteen budget for the county of maui as it pertains to estimated revenues for community plan area sewer treatment plant upgrades total capital improvement project appropriations and total appropriations operating capital improvement projects mr holcombe a chairman i would previously under county communication sixteen dash eighteen you now makes bill a number eighty nine in ne ne an all in void and therefore the friendly would be an appropriate action by the council at this time thank you any further discussion