POLICY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE Council of the County of Maui MINUTES October 1, 2018 Council Chamber, 8th Floor CONVENE: 9:07 a.m. PRESENT: Councilmember Yuki Lei K. Sugimura, Chair Councilmember Stacy Crivello, Vice-Chair Councilmember Alika Atay Councilmember Elle Cochran Councilmember Don S. Guzman (in 9:31 a.m.; out 9:59 am.; in 10:42 a.m.) Councilmember Riki Hokama Councilmember Kelly T. King (out 11:21 a.m.) EXCUSED: Councilmember Robert Carroll Councilmember Mike White STAFF: Shelly Espeleta, Legislative Analyst Clarita Balala, Committee Secretary Ella Alcon, Council Aide, Molokai Council Office (via telephone conference bridge) Denise Fernandez, Council Aide, Lanai Council Office (via telephone conference bridge) Dawn Lono, Council Aide, Hana Council Office (via telephone conference bridge) ADMIN.: Edward S. Kushi, Jr., First Deputy Corporation Counsel, Department of the Corporation Counsel Jerrie L. Sheppard, Deputy Corporation Counsel, Department of the Corporation Counsel Jeffrey T. Ueoka, Deputy Corporation Counsel, Department of the Corporation Counsel Michael Molina, Executive Assistant, Office of the Mayor Karen Arakawa, Small Business Advocate, Office of Economic Development Victor Ramos, Assistant Police Chief, Department of Police Reid Pursley, Police Lieutenant, Department of Police Valeriano "Val" Martin, Assistant Fire Chief, Department of Fire and Public Safety Cary Kayama, Ocean Safety Operations Manager, Department of Fire and Public Safety OTHERS: Tiffany Iida, Chair, Maui County Sister Cities Foundation Christine Sabado POLICY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui October 1, 2018 Kit Zulueta, Marketing Director, UH Maui College I.M. Ready Study Abroad Gladys Baisa Alickzander Pasalo Stephanie Ohigashi, International Student Recruiter, UH Maui College Samuel Peralta PRESS: Akaku: Maui Community Television, Inc. CHAIR SUGIMURA: .(gavel). Good morning. Welcome to the Policy, Economic Development, and Agriculture Committee. Today is October 1st and it is 9:07 a.m. I wanted to ask Members to please silence your cell phones or noise-making devices. At this time I'd like to take roll call. My Vice-Chair is Stacy Crivello from Molokai. VICE-CHAIR CRIVELLO: Aloha, good morning, Chair. CHAIR SUGIMURA: Aloha. Alika Atay. COUNCILMEMBER ATAY: Good morning. CHAIR SUGIMURA: Good morning. Riki Hokama from Lanai. COUNCILMEMBER HOKAMA: Chairman. CHAIR SUGIMURA: Good morning. And Kelly King. COUNCILMEMBER KING: Good morning. CHAIR SUGIMURA: Good morning. Thank you for being here. Elle Cochran is on her way. Mike White is, will be a little late. But coming, Don Guzman will be coming. Robert Carroll is excused today. So, right now we're operating with bare quorum but we will soon in probably about 45 minutes be, people will be here. Today on the agenda we have a pretty full agenda, and we have from Administration regarding the sister cities, we have Karen Arakawa who's back there. Thank you, Karen. And Karen is with the...is it County Small Business Office but also you work with the Sister City Foundation, so she will be representing the Administration. For Boards [sic] and [sic] Variances and Appeals, we have Mike Molina who will be talking to us regarding that nominee. PEA-81 which is from the Police Department, Lieutenant Reid Pursley which is about the Naloxone nasal spray. PEA-82 is a donation of two Hummers to the Police Department. Assistant Chief Victor Ramos will be here. PEA-83 which is the sunglasses for the Ocean Safety Division. Assistant Chief Val Martin from the Fire and Public Safety will be here. Cary Kayama also from that same, well Ocean Safety Operations Manager. And David, the new Chief David Thyne may also attend. For PEA-85 which is sister cities we have Tiffany Iida. I think she's also going to be testifying. Corporation Counsel Jerrie Sheppard has three items on the agenda. Ed - 2 - POLICY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui October 1, 2018 Kushi who is my Deputy, he's a Deputy Corp. Counsel, he's also for this Committee is here for two items for the commissions. And then Jeff Ueoka will take up the sunglass donations. My Staff, I want to thank them. Legislative Analyst Shelly Espeleta, Committee Secretary is Clarita Balala, Hana District Office is Dawn Lono, Lanai District Office is Denise Fernandez, Molokai District Office is Ella Alcon. Members, we have a full agenda today, and we are taking up sister city relationship first on the agenda which is with San Juan, Metro Manila, Republic of Philippines. PEA-2(47) is nominations to boards and commissions for the Boards [sic] and [sic] Variances and Appeals which is Sandy Duvauchelle. PEA-2(48), nominations for boards and commissions for Cost of Government for Molokai which Stacy Crivello has arranged and will speak to us about. PEA-81, Donation of 2-Count Naloxone Nasal Spray Units and Training and Travel Expenses to the Department of Police. PEA-82, Department of...the donation of two Hummers H2s to also Department of Police. PEA-83, Donation of 61 Pairs of Kaenon Sunglasses to the Ocean Safety Program of the Department of Fire and Public Safety. Members, everyone, thank you very much for being here. Elle Cochran, thank you. Nice to see you. COUNCILMEMBER COCHRAN: Aloha. Thank you, Chair. CHAIR SUGIMURA: Thank you. We have...we are now going to take public testimony. So, at this time I'm going to call the testifiers up, and if you could please state your name, what item you're testifying on, and you will have three minutes to testify. Thank you. The first testifier is Tiffany Iida, regarding PEA-85, and she is Maui County Sister Cities Foundation. Are you the president? MS. IIDA: Yes, I am. CHAIR SUGIMURA: Thank you for being here. .BEGIN PUBLIC TESTIMONY.. MS. IIDA: Good morning, Chair and Councilmembers. CHAIR SUGIMURA: Good morning. MS. IIDA: Thank you so much for having us here today. I'm Tiffany Iida, I'm the Chair of the Maui County Sister Cities Foundation, and I'm here regarding PEA-85, and I wanted to let everyone know that our organization does support the sister-city relationship with San Juan, Metro Manila. They have been actually quite active in visiting us here. Back in 2013 and others will probably speak about this, there was a delegation that went there for a visit, and at that time they created a friendship between Maui County and San Juan, Metro Manila. Shortly after that, they actually, San Juan, Metro Manila actually passed Maui County to be a sister city. So their, for them we are a sister city, it's our side that they're waiting for in hope, they're hoping that we would become a sister city. Mayor Guia Gomez did visit Maui County soon after that, as well as Councilor Pacheco, Vincent Pacheco and he was here two years ago and - 3 - POLICY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui October 1, 2018 speaking...he spoke with the Mayor and was encouraging the Mayor to create the sister-city relationship. And he continues to be in contact and wishes for that. And that's about it. If anyone has questions for me. CHAIR SUGIMURA: Anyone have questions for...you know I have a question. MS. IIDA: Yes. CHAIR SUGIMURA: So, right now we're a friendship city -- MS. IIDA: Correct. CHAIR SUGIMURA: --and I wonder if you could tell us 'cause it's in the reso that what is a friendship city versus the...what is the difference in the relationship? MS. IIDA: Okay. Friendship cities is just an agreement between the mayors of each county or, you know, city. So, there was this friendship signing back in 2013 when they went to visit, when Mayor Arakawa went to visit San Juan, Metro Manila. So, in...for Maui County we are a friendship city with San Juan, Metro Manila, but they signed, San Juan, Metro Manila signed there for us to be a sister city. So, if you look on their website they list Maui County as a sister city. CHAIR SUGIMURA: Thank you. Ms. King? COUNCILMEMBER KING: Thank you. Thank you for being here. MS. IIDA: Thank you. COUNCILMEMBER KING: Is there... so there's an official sister-city document that we will be signing? MS. IIDA: Here -- COUNCILMEMBER KING: Okay. MS. IIDA: --it would be... COUNCILMEMBER KING: Or... MS. IIDA: Sorry. Oh...yes. COUNCILMEMBER KING: Besides this resolution do we have another document? MS. IIDA: There is just -- CHAIR SUGIMURA: It's for the Mayor. - 4 - POLICY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE MINUTES Council of the County of Maui October 1, 2018 MS. IIDA: --a signing of a friendship. So, in San Juan, Metro Manila...so for us to become a sister city the Mayor has to request it with the resolution and Council has to pass it -- COUNCILMEMBER KING: Okay. MS. IIDA: --for us to be... COUNCILMEMBER KING: But there is another document that we then sign or is it just this one? MS. IIDA: Yes, yes. COUNCILMEMBER KING: There is another document? MS. IIDA: So, it would be...yes. So, it would be a Council approving the resolution for us to become sister cities. COUNCILMEMBER KING: No, no, I know that. MS. IIDA: Oh. COUNCILMEMBER KING: But once we approve it, is there another document that... MS. IIDA: Oh yes. So, then what will probably happen is our mayors will come together once again and sign a sister-city, like a memorandum of understanding. COUNCILMEMBER KING: Oh, okay. And is there like a financial obligation or does... MS. IIDA: There could be. COUNCILMEMBER KING: Okay. MS. IIDA: There's no... COUNCILMEMBER KING: There's nothing written? MS.