the committee mike victory no will not be here today with me first of all please turn off your cell phones or put them in silent mode with me today is  excused are council member okama council member guzmn council member victory no and coming shortly will be i'm going to begin with public testimony doesn't look like there's anybody here in the chambers that wants to testify so we have some issues with our bridge to all the remote sites so i'm going to we have three cell phone set up here and hopefully we'll catch them all so at first but see let's go with the district office say there do you have any testif ok thank you ladies thanks for putting up with this interesting set up here right member seeing no one at the district offices and no one here waiting to testify that close public testimony without objection no objection  all right members or first two items relate to nominations to boards committees and commissions the committee staff sent an email last week asking if any member would like to request the attendance of either nominee to the meeting there were no action advisory council for the county of maui the purpose of the proposed resolution is to approve or disapprove the appointment of barbara but top of it hopefully i got that right to the a friend of the affirmative action advisory council for term expiring march thirty first two thousand and sixteen to fill a vacancy due to the resignation of light in aba mr molina can you provide us with a little bit of background on the situation also served in the community as well as both as a volunteer work here at the morial medical center along with the red cross on molly chapter as well as in the state of connecticut and she's been she was tasked with many issues while in the state of command in connecticut that dealt with affirmative action issues and she also served on the statewide affirmative action committee the administration feels her prior experience will certainly be an asset to the affirmative action council and would like to ask you chairman thank you members there's a at the back there's a her application form take a look at it any questions to mr molina on chair i don't have a question but just looking at the resume and i do not know the lady but i can only look at what is in front of me and what is in front of me tells me that this lady is uniquely qualified to sit on this commission she's done a lot of work specifically with women's issues and she certainly will educated and with a degree in humanities i mean i think it's i think it's a good fit i'd like to give  carden thank you chair and yes you pronounced your name correctly and ms pathak poets and myself were part of comedian status of women and i recall her when she first moved over and she just jumped right in just started getting active and involved and volunteered and wanted to learn you know the culture and the people in the community and so i had softer her and i have first hand experience working alongside her and she is a go getter and a ok it's been moved by ellie cochrane and seconded by mike wait to put her name on exhibit b which is to approve any further discussion all those in favor say  ok members think you right now we have number two item number two which is a two dash fifteen and on july second two thousand and fifteen the mayor transmitted a proposed resolution entitled appointment of a member to the most planning commission for the county of maui the purpose of the proposed resolution is approve or disapprove the appointment of timothy riley to the molokai planning commission for a an extensive background in mental health and also mental health counseling he previously served on the de kalb county georgia board of commissioners and as noted on his application he has experience with land use planning county budget planning as recognize six his experience and he i guess and from the state of georgia he also tried to make contact to meet with me and i'm sorry i was unable to fit that in my schedule to serve on the planning commission as such so at this stage i appreciate the mayor submitting names and i am hoping there is more applicants from the island itself at this time i cannot support being on on molokai and he did try to reach out to me too it was just before we were all heading out so mr molina what's the status of people wanting to be on the planning commission chairman committee members well to be quite honest it's like pulling teeth right now it's it's been challenging getting people to volunteer their time to serve on this particular commission as far as applications at this point we only have i believe two people that have actually submitted applications we have actively tried to look for others those that we've considered are already serving on other boards and commissions which would make it very difficult for them to serve on you know this particular commission as well but dumb the administration like we do for all of our boards and commissions appreciate any input or advice the any member from the council can give us to someone else who may be interested in this particular position or any of our boards and commissions and reasons you know and i know it can be hard but i also get that when members of the island is not being considered so i will try and make some phone how much time mr riley spent on mobile and is he a current permanent resident or a z still traveling back to georgia and care the doc wrote or he's been here about roughly two years he's looked at molokai as settling down and retiring there but he's been on the island roughly two years but he said he's he's looking at settling down there that does that mean the still working in georgia a no no he's his business has closed down in georgia that i did get that confirmation so the business is not operating there anymore and he's fond molokai is his retirement home ok the term would have the same concerns  meet with him and i pay a close attention to what the representative of the district that we are discussing and i share my colleague's concerns that maybe a little more time ok might be useful in a planning commission if you were going to do something else i would not be so concerned but you know when you're planning the future of an area i think it's really important that you have cochran thank you chair and i'll chime in and i too was contacted by mr reilly but unfortunately did not have time to return his call or a meeting and again it's unfortunate too that he's not here for us to just meet him first hand collectively but i agree with council member volos take on this particular applicant and he does have some great you know background  knowledge on things that could be of assistance but i think the actual well local sort of knowledge and just more you know knowledge about just living on the island with the people of the island would be a lot more helpful at this time so thank you chair and wait for the recommendation ok any further comment i have some as well i think we want to certainly thank dr reilly for  submitting his name for being on a commission or a board i think throwing him into the planning commission is is way to way too much especially the molokai planning commission or any planning commission in this county so i don't think he would be denied in any other capacity but the planning commission at this point is it was a little too much  d i think that's i'm getting the the gist of all the members so no disrespect or anything to dr riley these very well qualified to be on a board or commission probably not any planning commission at this time because you've got to get a taste of where you live before you can work on the planning in my opinion so if there's no is there any further comments if there's no further comments i'd like to make a recommendation recommendation ok it's been it's the listening to all the members it's the chairs recommendation that will entertain a motion to adopt the revised proposed resolution disapproving the nomination by placing the name of timothy reilly on exhibit c for terminix and for no term so we don't have to worry about a term on this one so putting the name of timothy reilly on exhibit c for disapproval any further discussion all those in favor say aye aye opposed let the motion passes six  three excuse ok thank you members i'm sorry this is b i eight and we're having the staff the administration staff thank you mr molina for being here proposed resolution entitled approving the installation of sirens in the county of maui relating to the hawaii state emergency outdoors siren warning system the purpose of the proposed resolution  morning so this project is to retrofit and modernize as well as add exit outdoor warning sirens throughout the county of maui and it's completely funded by the state of hawaii  managed by the hawaii emergency management agency previously known as state of hawaii civil defense this project will consist of three phases we're looking at lease agreements for the first phase which will consist of twelve sirens face to consist of seventeen sirens and phase three will consist of twenty eight sirens the new sirens are all electronic solar powered and consist of fiberglass composite poles and in addition though add more coverage to areas where we are lacking some coverage ok anything else from corporate also ok members any questions solar and battery backup and so the most nor so i'm focusing on northwest ernet western and like a couple who are in that vicinity because where i live  testing on what he has shown that it does expand over to a mile and a half the issue that state usually has when picking siren sites is that we have to get good cell coverage or satellite  range so that's how we trigger the sirens to sound so if we don't have a good signal we won't be able to sound the siren for your area where we lock coverage because we do have areas along coastal regions that we lack coverage we do have civil air patrol which provides outdoor warning as well as we have p d go and circulate the area if we have to evacuate ok you know that's been the practice throughout the years sirens in the county of maui relating to the hawaii state emergency outdoor siren warning system allowing the staff to make non substantive revisions to the resolution and following of county communication fifteen dash one t ladies members will do a short recess until we can find mr walker i believe we need mr walker or mr x log for this next one and neither one is here so when do short recess the college of the chair will the policy enter governmental affairs committee meeting of july twentieth please come back to order with us today we have mr walker the deputy director of finance good morning mr walker good morning my members all right  today is talking about in a governmental agreement with the state employees retirement system to acquire a governmental accounting standards board report in forty seven until i thirteenth two thousand and fifteen corporation counsel transit a revised proposed bill and titled a bill for an ordinance authorizing the mayor of the county of maui to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with employees retirement system of the state of hawaii relating to the acquisition of a governmental accounting standards board statement number sixty eight report the purpose of the revised bill is to authorize the mayor to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the ers to obtain a government accounting standards board gadsby statement number sixty eight report from its actuary at an estimated cost of fifteen hundred dollars the revised proposed bill incorporates non substantive revisions and we're ready for m walker can you tell us a little bit more about this i know we had it in the previous meeting but this is a new requirement of gaspy sixty eight which is basically related to pensions and the new requirement that we provide much more of that information than it been previously required in our annual kaffir and basically the u s has most of the information but the actuary is the one who has to glean the information and compile this new report that's that's really all it is ok and i believe we had some questions on the math but i guess that's just the way it is on the two thousand and fourteen right yeah i mean they'll always be one year behind that right ok members we had some on july tenth of the director responded to the committee's questions from the last meeting does anybody have any questions in response to those responses i think were we are aware of what they want to do i know some of us are unhappy with that but it's a requirement of the gadsby sixty eight so i don't see any i don't know that we have any alternative so any comments mr white i know the amount is not very large fifteen hundred dollars but some of the entities involved are significantly larger than my wee county so i'm just wondering why thirteen thousand five hundred feet is divided equally as opposed to proportion based on our number of employees in the state employee has way more than we do sitting kind of on a little has way more than we do so i'm just wondering why it hasn't been pro grade and as opposed to divided separately chair i wasn't privy to the negotiations the rest you know negotiated that and said here it is and so i understand where you're coming from but i think it was simple my out to divide by ten as opposed to i mean i don't know your number of employees or anything i don't have an answer for that or the amount of our unfunded liability or some something other than just a straight straight across the and no sometimes here we are picking up the state's tab once again yes here we are picking up the state's tab but i think it's going to cost us more than fifteen hundred bucks to argue it so that's my understanding ok i kind of seems like a moot argument but you know i agree with with the chair but i think maybe we might want to just get this done and maybe give a and write a letter about write a letter saying you know a letter of protest that nobody wants to hear but why isn't it pro rated as opposed to is it divided up equally chair and i might add that this is going to be an annual event right and so we have the opportunity let me say next year to maybe come back and say maybe a fairer way is to do it this way and arm wrestle a little bit think so stuff you've got that we're going to try and do a letter asking why it's not by the amount of employees or some other reason as opposed to divided equally amongst everybody ok county of maui to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the employees retirement system of the state of hawaii relating to the acquisition of a government accounting standards board state and number sixty eight report and filing of county communication fifteen dash one eighty last item that's p i a forty eight ok and that is an intergovernmental agreement with the state office of auditor to audit the schedule of allocations of the state employees retirement system this p i forty eight on july thirteenth two thousand and fifteen the corporation counsel transmitted a revised proposed bill allocations of the employees retirement system of the state of hawaii i r s and filing of county communications fifteen dash one eighty four so moved ok it's been moved by chair white and second velo any further discussion of all those in favor say aye opposed but the records show that the measure passes six zero knows and three excuse thank you mr walker thank you chair and community members and staff you have the letter request ok ms just before we lined up we were going to write a letter about that