ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT and BUDGET COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUDGET COMMITTEE Council of the County of Maui MINUTES April 14, 2020 Online Only via BlueJeans Link CONVENE: 9:03 a.m. PRESENT: Councilmember Keani N.W. Rawlins-Fernandez, Chair Councilmember Kelly Takaya King, Vice-Chair (out 10 am.; in 1:33 p.m.) Councilmember Riki Hokama, Member Councilmember Tasha Kama, Member Councilmember Alice L. Lee, Member Councilmember Michael J. Molina, Member Councilmember Tamara Paltin, Member Councilmember Shane M. Sinenci, Member Councilmember Yuki Lei K. Sugimura, Member STAFF: Shelly Espeleta, Legislative Analyst Chester Carson, Legislative Analyst Lesley Milner, Legislative Analyst Kasie Apo Takayama, Legislative Analyst Yvette Bouthillier, Committee Secretary ADMIN.: Michele Y. Yoshimura, Budget Director, Office of the Mayor Tivoli Faaumu, Chief, Department of Police Dean M. Rickard, Deputy Chief, Department of Police Melissa Magonigle, Business Administrator II, Department of Police Donald Guzman, Prosecuting Attorney, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney Susan Clements, Administrative Officer, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney Rowena Dagdag-Andaya Director, Department of Public Works Jordan Molina, Deputy Director, Department of Public Works John Smith, Chief of Field Operations and Maintenance, Department of Public Works Mimi Desjardins, Deputy Corporation Counsel, Department of the Corporation Counsel PRESS: AkakU: Maui Community Television, Inc. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: ... (gavel). .. Aloha kakahiaka kãkou. Will the Economic Development and Budget Committee please come to order. It's 9:03 on April 14. A reminder for everyone to please silence their cell phones. We'll start with roll call. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUDGET COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui April 14, 2020 Well.. I'm here. I'm Keani Rawlins-Fernandez, the Economic Development and Budget Committee Chair. And we have Committee Vice-Chair Kelly King. VICE-CHAIR KING: Aloha. Good morning, everybody. I do want to let you know, Chair, that I'm. I have an emergency meeting. business meeting at 10:00. So I'll have to . I'm not sure how long that's going to be but we're one of the essential businesses because we're making fuel. So, I have a . I'll be out for at least an hour. But I'll be monitoring the monitor. Thank you. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Okay, Mahalo, for that heads-up. Okay and then, aloha Member Shane Sinenci. COUNCILMEMBER SINENCI: Aloha kakahiaka kãkou mai Maui Hikina. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Aloha kakahiaka. Member Mike Molina? COUNCILMEMBER MOLINA: Aloha kakahiaka, Madam Chair, from wonderful and beautiful Makawao. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Aloha. Chair Alice Lee? COUNCILMEMBER LEE: Madam Chair, as we say in Persia, saläm. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Salãm. COUNCILMEMBER LEE: Salam. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Finally a word that I can kind of say. Member Riki Hokama? COUNCILMEMBER HOKAMA: Aloha, Chair, good morning. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANI)EZ: Aloha and good morning. Member Tamara Paltin? COUNCILMEMBER PALTIN: Aloha kakahiaka, Chair, mai Napili. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Aloha kakahiaka. Member Yuki Lei Sugimura? COUNCILMEMBER SUGIMURA: Good morning from Kula. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Good morning. And Pro Temp Tasha Kama? COUNCILMEMBER KAMA: Aloha kakahiaka mai Kahului. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Aloha kakahiaka. And we have with us from Corporation Counsel, Deputy Corporation Counsel Mimi Desjardins. -2- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUDGET COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui April 14, 2020 MS. DESJARDINS: Good morning, everybody. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Good morning. And we have. yeah there she is. From the Office of the Mayor, Budget Director Michele Yoshimura. And we will have representatives from the Department of Police, Department of Prosecuting Attorney, and Department of Public Works later today. And we have Committee Staff; Committee Secretary Yvette Bouthillier, Legislative Analysts Shelly Espeleta, Chester Carson, Lesley Milner and Kasie Apo Takayama. We have one item on today's agenda EDB- 1 Proposed Fiscal Year 2021 Budget for the County of Maui. BEGIN PUBLIC TESTIMONY... CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: We will begin with public testimony. Oral testimony via phone or teleconference will be accepted. Testifiers wanting to provide video testimony should have joined the online meeting via the BlueJeans meeting link at BlueJeans.com/597785199 as noted on today's agenda. Testifiers wanting to provide audio testimony should have participated via phone conference by dialing 1-408-317-9253 and entering meeting code 597 785 199 also noted on today's agenda. Written testimony is highly encouraged by sending your comments to edb. committee mauicounty.us. Oral testimony is limited to three minutes. When testifying please state your first and last name, if you're testifying on behalf of an organization or a paid lobbyist please inform the committee. I will post a link to the testifiers' login chat, so testifiers will be able to see where they are on the list. However, please be mindful of the use of chat during the meeting, chat should be limited to the Committee's review of FY '21 budget and should not be used to provide testimony or chat with other testifiers. If providing testimony please be courteous to others by muting your microphone while waiting for your turn to testify. Participants who wish to view the meeting only without providing testimony please view a live cablecast on AkakU Channel 53. You can also visit MauiCounty.us/agendas to access live and archived meeting videos. For a click here link to the BlueJeans meeting and for up-to-date information on the budget please visit www.mauicounty.us/2O2lhudget. I'll remind our Committee Members and the Administration and the public to please be patient with us as we continue to navigate through this new platform. And well proceed with oral testimonies. Staff has been monitoring people joining today's meeting by phone and by video and well do our best to take each person up in an orderly fashion. And it looks like we don't have any testifiers signed up. If anyone is logged on and would like to provide testimony please unmute yourself and you may proceed with testimony. Okay. Hearing no testifiers starting to testify IT . if there are no objections, I'll close public testimony-- COUNCILMEMBER KAMA: No objections. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: --oral testimony. COUNCILMEMBERS: No objections. -3- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUDGET COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui April 14, 2020 CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Okay. Mahalo, Members. And we have written testimony from April 13 and 14 as of 7:30 a.m., this morning. Five testifiers in regard to Common Ground Collective; 1) Andrew Lehman, 2) Tara Lionberger, 3) Gordean Kakalia, 4) Tiare Irvine, 5) Lucy Wormser. One testimony regarding Axis Deer from Faith Chase, two testimony regarding Maui Soil and Conservation District from 1) Carver, 2) Britney James. One testimony regarding Hale Mahaolu Personal Care Program from Rueben Ignacio, Program Director of Personal Care Program. One testimony regarding Maui County Child Care Subsidy from Cara Rand. Four testimony regarding Hui 0 Wa Ola funding, 1) Brenda Jarmakani, 2) Alfred Wolf, 3) Judy Jarvie, and 4) Aerie Waters. One testimony regarding Open Space Funds for Maalaea Mauka lands from Haiku Community Association. And 16 testimonies in regards to Maui Economic Development Board STEMworks AFTERschool program from 1) Kristine Tsukiyama, 2) Kamri, Student from Maui Waena, 3) Pukalani Elementary School Robotics team, 4) Jeffery Ho, Student Pukalani Elementary school, 5) Joann Yun, Student Maui Waena, 3) Judith Hook, 7) Liz Buchter, 8) Renie Menor, 9) Abigail Tokushima, Student Pukalani Elementary, 10) Emilie deJesus, Student Pukalani Elementary School, 11) Karen Wright, 12) Max, 13) Makeila, 14) Nevin Wehner, 15) Shedd Ohana, and 16) Jamie Kahoohanohano. Okay. Any objections to receiving written testimony into the record? COUNCILMEMBERS: No objections. • .END OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY... ITEM 1: PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF MAUI (CC 20-56 and CC 20-114) CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Okay. Mahalo, Members. Right. So, well proceed with our one item on today's agenda, EDB- 1 Proposed Fiscal Year 2021 Budget for the County of Maui. We are on day six of Department Reviews continuing with Department of Police, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, and Department of Public Works. Receive responses for your individual inquiries for those departments as well as introduce and seek comment from the departments on your priority proposals. Thank you again, Members, for being flexible with our budget discussions as we continue to look for more efficient ways to carry out our work. And today's estimated agenda, we're ahead of schedule. So, we will begin with the Department of Police and then followed by Department of Prosecuting Attorney and then lastly, Public Works. I guess we're so ahead of schedule, Ms. Yoshimura, do we have . UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Chair? CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Member Hokama, question? COUNCILMEMBER HOKAMA: Yes. I will just ask you and my colleagues since we have two of our really big departments coming up today, which is Police and Public Works. I would say if we could use our discretion and your leadership . if it makes sense for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUDGET COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui April 14, 2020 maybe a third round of questions by the Members and you can, you know, further limit time on that. That might be helpful because I was trying to list my questions and I found out that I might need more than ten minutes. So, I just ask that consideration on the bigger departments. Thank you. CHAIR RAWLINS-FERNANDEZ: Sure. Mahalo, Member Hokama. Okay, Ms. Yoshimura. .oh, Member Sugimura? COUNCILMEMBER SUGIMURA: Thank you. Over the weekend I sent an e-mail to EDB Committee and yourself regarding questions that I had accumulated from last week for the departments. And I just wanted to get your guidance on how we receive answers to those questions. So, this is in addition to the consolidated questions that were sent in writing to the departments and these are questions that came up as we had talked to the departments and they gave us more information.