BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Pacific/Honolulu X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific/Honolulu BEGIN:VEVENT UID:53-16012@honolulu.gov DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250324T180000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Honolulu:20250324T210000 DTSTAMP:20250318T213041Z URL:https://www.honolulu.gov/nco/events/neighborhood-commission-2025-03-24 / SUMMARY:Neighborhood Commission Regular Meeting DESCRIPTION:NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nREGUL AR MEETING AGENDA\nMONDAY\, MARCH 24\, 2025 at 6:00 P.M.\nKapālama Hale – Room 153\n925 Dillingham Boulevard\, Honolulu\, HI 96817\nAND VIA WEBE X\n\nThis meeting location is open to public participation.\nOther availab le options include participating by computer\, phone or by video system. \ nWebEx and phone-in instructions are as follows:\n\nMeeting Link: https:// cchnl.webex.com/cchnl/j.php?MTID=m4ed0ce4c5871978ea94a35efd24063d1 \nMeeti ng Number / Access Code: 2482 418 5050\nPassword: NC00 (6200 from phones a nd video systems)\nJoin by Phone: +1-408-418-9388 United States Toll\n\nRe cordings of Commission meetings can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/@ NeighborhoodCommissionOffice\n\nGoogle Drive: https://drive.google.com/dri ve/folders/1LS8mfBOkIKp5hqr6Fwr5Kn1HCYCURUu0\n\nRules of Speaking: Anyone wishing to speak is asked to raise his or her hand\, and when recognized b y the Chair\, to address comments to the Chair. Speakers are to keep their comments under two (2) minutes. Public testimony taken on each agenda ite m. Please silence all electronic devices.\n\nNote: The Commission may take action on any agenda item. As required by the State Sunshine Law (Hawaiʻ i Revised Statutes Chapter 92)\, specific issues not noted on this agenda cannot be voted on\, unless properly added to the agenda.\n\nI. CALL TO OR DER BY PRESIDING OFFICER\nA. Roll Call of Commissioners\, Establishment of Quorum\n\nII. PUBLIC CONCERNS – Limited to 2 minutes for items not on t he agenda\n\nIII. APPROVAL OF MINUTES\nA. Monday\, February 24\, 2025 Regu lar Meeting Written Summary for Video Record\n\nIV. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY’ S REPORT\nA. Update on NCO Survey to Board Members\n\nV. NEW BUSINESS\nA. Pālolo Neighborhood Board No.06 – Request to temporarily reduce the num ber of seats from 13 to 9 for the remainder of the 2023-2025 term to achie ve quorum by removing one (1) seat from SD1 and SD2\; and two (2) seats fo r SD3.\n\nVI. COMMITTEE REPORTS\nA. Elections Committee – Chair Claire T amamoto. Members: Bill Clark and Richard Oshiro (Ex-Officio)\nB. Survey Co mmittee – Chair Steven Melendrez. Members: Mahealani Bernal\, Claire Tam amoto\, Larry Veray and Richard Oshiro (Ex-Officio)\nC. Neighborhood Plan Committee – Chair Patrick Smith. Members: Mahealani Bernal\, Steven Mele ndrez\, Larry Veray and Richard Oshiro (Ex-Officio)\n\nVII. ANNOUNCEMENTS\ nA. Next Meetings: The next regular meeting is scheduled for Monday\, Apri l 28\, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. on Webex\, and at Kapālama Hale.\nB. City and Co unty of Honolulu and Hawai’i Foodbank are Partnering to Fight Against Hu nger: Dylan Buck (NCO) will be collecting donated canned goods at the next meeting on Monday\, April 28\, 2025.\n\nVIII. ADJOURNMENT OF SUNSHINE LAW MEETING\n\nIX. ADJUDICATORY MATTERS – The Commission will exercise its adjudicatory functions in accordance with HRS § 92-6.\nA. 2024-33 Lye v. Caravalho\nB. 2024-23 Finley v. Misakian – Hearing\n\nA mailing list is maintained for interested persons and agencies to receive this board’s a genda and minutes. Additions\, corrections\, and deletions to the mailing list may be directed to the Neighborhood Commission Office (NCO) at Kapāl ama Hale\, 925 Dillingham Boulevard\, Suite 160\, Honolulu\, Hawaiʻi 9681 7\, by telephone on (808) 768-3710\, fax (808) 768-3711\, or e-mailing nco @honolulu.gov. Agenda documents and minutes are also available online at h ttp://www.honolulu.gov/nco/boards.html\n\nAll written testimony must be re ceived in the Neighborhood Commission Office 48 hours prior to the meeting . If within 48 hours of the meeting\, written and/or oral testimony may be submitted directly to the Board at the meeting. If submitting written tes timony\, please note the Board and agenda item(s) your testimony concerns. Send to: Neighborhood Commission Office\, 925 Dillingham Boulevard\, Suit e 160\, Honolulu\, HI 96817\, fax (808) 768-3711\, or email nbtestimony@ho nolulu.gov.\n\nIf you need an auxiliary aid/service or other accommodation due to a disability or an interpreter for a language other than English\, please call the Neighborhood Commission Office at (808) 768-3710 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. or send an email to nco@honolulu.gov at least thre e (3) business days before the scheduled meeting. It may not be possible t o fulfill requests received after this date.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n&nbs p\;\n\nDRAFT REGULAR MEETING WRITTEN SUMMARY FOR VIDEO RECORD\nMONDAY\, FE BRUARY 24\, 2025 – 6:00 P.M.\nKAPĀLAMA HALE CONFERENCE ROOM 260 – 925 DILLINGHAM BOULEVARD\, HONOLULU\, HI 96817\nAND VIA WEBEX TELECONFERENCIN G\n\nVideo recording of this meeting can be found at: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=vkN6bGYTYpc\n\nMeeting materials (Google Drive) can be found a t:\nhttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LS8mfBOkIKp5hqr6Fwr5Kn1HCYCURU u0\n\nI. CALL TO ORDER – [0:00:11]: Chair Oshiro called the meeting to o rder at 6:00 p.m. Quorum was established with 7 members present. Note – This 9-member commission requires 5 members present to establish quorum an d to take official commission action.\n\nMembers Present: Mahealani Bernal \, Bill Clark\, James Logue\, Steven Melendrez\, Richard Oshiro\, Patrick Smith\, and Claire Tamamoto.\n\nMembers Absent: Larry Veray.\n\nGuests: Er nest Caravalho\, Kevin Lye (Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Board No.13)\; Tom Heinrich (Residents)\; Dylan Whitsell\, Travis Saito and Dylan Buck ( Neighborhood Commission Office – NCO). There were 13 total attendees. Na me not included if not legible on sign-in sheet\, not signed in and/or not participated in discussion.\n\nII. PUBLIC CONCERNS – [0:01:10]\n\nBoard Vacancies &\; Training – [0:01:20]: Tom Heinrich spoke to the follow ing concerns: (1) as the deadline to register for upcoming Neighborhood Bo ard (NB) term has passed\, there are several NB’s that will begin the ne w term with several vacancies\; and (2) requested that the NCO consider ba sic NB member training for all members shortly after the term begins.\n\nI II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – [0:03:18]\n\nMonday\, January 27\, 2025 Regula r Meeting Written Summary for Video Record – [0:03:18]: [0:03:30] – Me lendrez MOVED and Smith SECONDED to approve the Written Summary for Video Record as written. Hearing no objections\, the motion was ADOPTED\; 7-0-0 (Aye: Bernal\, Clark\, Logue\, Melendrez\, Oshiro\, Smith\, Tamamoto\; Nay : None\; Abstain: None) – [0:03:37]\n\nIV. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY’S REPOR T – [0:03:47]\n\nNCO Survey to Board Members – [0:03:47]: Dylan Whitse ll (Deputy – NCO) reported\, on behalf of Executive Secretary Lloyd Yone naka\, that the NCO is moving forward with their survey to all Neighborhoo d Board members. Dylan Buck (NCO) added that the Survey Committee’s repo rt will be presented later in this meeting and that may have an impact on the NCO survey.\n\nV. NEW BUSINESS – [0:04:58]\n\nAppoint Lloyd Yonenaka as Chief Elections Officer – [0:05:15]: [0:05:18] – Smith MOVED and T amamoto SECONDED to appoint Lloyd Yonenaka as the Chief Elections Officer. Hearing no objections\, the motion was ADOPTED\; 7-0-0 (Aye: Bernal\, Cla rk\, Logue\, Melendrez\, Oshiro\, Smith\, Tamamoto\; Nay: None\; Abstain: None) – [0:05:26]\n\nAppoint Partner Akiona as Chief Monitoring Officer – [0:05:40]: Dylan Buck announced that Partner Akiona volunteered to ser ve as the Chief Monitoring Officer. Akiona was a previous member of the Ku li’ou’ou-Kalani Iki Neighborhood Board\, and a previous Neighborhood A ssistant for several NBs. [0:07:45] – Tamamoto MOVED and Bernal SECONDED to appoint Partner Akiona as the Chief Monitoring Officer. Hearing no obj ections\, the motion was ADOPTED\; 7-0-0 (Aye: Bernal\, Clark\, Logue\, Me lendrez\, Oshiro\, Smith\, Tamamoto\; Nay: None\; Abstain: None) – [0:08 :23]\n\nVI. COMMITTEE REPORTS – [0:09:35]\n\nElections Committee – [0: 09:35]: Committee Chair Tamamoto provided her report and highlighted the f ollowing: the deadline to register closed last Friday\, February 21\, 2025 \; there are 453 registered candidates and 40 contested races\; and the vo ting period is from Friday\, April 25\, 2025 through Friday\, May 23\, 202 5.\n\nQuestions\, comments and concerns followed – [0:12:01]\n\nSurvey C ommittee – [0:16:45]: Committee Chair Melendrez presented his report and highlighted that the Committee will finalize the survey by including ques tions that address the testimony received by NB members\, then present it to the full Neighborhood Commission at the next meeting.\n• Report: http s://drive.google.com/file/d/1KGGyAinr-u2WriD8s5DSNBQ0eOJkXA5S/view?usp=dri ve_link\n\nQuestions\, comments and concerns followed – [0:18:10]\n\n[0: 24:05] – Tamamoto MOVED and Bernal SECONDED to request that the Neighbor hood Commission Office (NCO) review the 5 areas outlined in the Survey Com mittee’s report and consider incorporating them as questions in the NCO survey. Discussion followed. Hearing no objections\, the motion was ADOPTE D\; 7-0-0 (Aye: Bernal\, Clark\, Logue\, Melendrez\, Oshiro\, Smith\, Tama moto\; Nay: None\; Abstain: None) – [0:39:55]\n\n[0:41:28] – Melendrez MOVED that the NCO provide their survey to the Neighborhood Commission it is distributed to the Neighborhood Boards. Hearing no second\, the motion was not considered.\n\nNeighborhood Plan Committee – [0:43:27]: Committ ee Chair Smith provided the report and highlighted that the Committee is c urrently prioritizing the complaint process and putting a hold on the rest of the Neighborhood Plan review process. The meeting in January 2025 incl uded a proposal submitted by the NCO to amend the complaint process\, and the Committee used the February 2025 meeting to generally visualize what a n improved complaint process would be before formally drafting it. The nex t meeting is scheduled for Monday\, March 17\, 2025.\n• Unofficial Websi te: https://n-plan.org/\n\nQuestions\, comments and concerns followed – [0:44:50]\n\nVII. ANNOUNCEMENTS – [0:49:20]\n\nNext Meetings – [0:49:2 0]: The next regular meeting is scheduled for Monday\, March 24\, 2025\, a t 6:00 p.m. on WebEx and at Kapālama Hale.\n\nVIII. ADJOURNMENT – [0:49 :28]: The meeting was adjourned at 6:50 p.m.\n\nSubmitted by: Dylan Buck\, Community Relations Specialist\, NCO\nReviewed by: Dylan Whitsell\, Deput y\, NCO\nFinalized by:\n\nTo view agenda and minutes\, visit our board we bsite.\n\nEvent shows physical location\; however\, other options of parti cipation may also include WebEx and phone.  If available\, instructions f or WebEx and phone can be found at the top of the agenda. LOCATION:Kapālama Hale Room 153\, 925 Dillingham Boulevard\, Room 153\, Ho nolulu\, HI\, 96817\, United States GEO:21.319957;-157.870638 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=925 Dillingham Boulevard\, Room 153\, Honolulu\, HI\, 96817\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITL E=Kapālama Hale Room 153:geo:21.319957,-157.870638 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Honolulu X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Honolulu BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20240324T180000 TZOFFSETFROM:-1000 TZOFFSETTO:-1000 TZNAME:HST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR