I agree it important to get everyones input, especially people who are working with community in the business world. What parts to you oppose? Kauai Councilmember Luke Evslin to fill empty, Three from Kauai nominated to fill Hawaii House, Luke Evslin of Kauai sworn into Hawaii House of, No Changes to General Election Ballot Following, Public invited to attend inauguration of Kaua'i, who is now a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives, build a hotel at the site of the former Coco Palms resort. Students can become entrepreneurs and also work for somebody. There is little environmental impact or infrastructure burden. I would support the addition of one gate, but not three. While it may have been necessary to get us out of the deferred maintenance hole, the excise tax is a regressive tax that especially impacts low income folks. Questions included, but were not limited . kauai obituaries july 2020 19 3407 . Councilmember Carvalho has been my partner in this effort. In little and big ways, we all need to be doing whatever we can to reduce our carbon footprint; and, as institutions and industries, like our county, our business community and our visitor industry, we need to be leading the way. We need to find county solutions to reduce the cost of housing. Our food tours increase the demand for local ingredients in these restaurants, help maintain their commitment towards supporting local farmers, and raises awareness of fresh ingredients from the island. If elected, as the legislative body for our county, our impact on infrastructure projects is to make sure they are funded to be able to accomplish the job. I am blessed with the ability to be your full-time council member without the competition of an outside job or a personal business to run. No, the various forms of Transient Vacation Rentals and Resorts should be evaluated for Real Property Tax rates separately on their own merits and impacts. The Kauai County Council is accepting applications from individuals to render services as County Auditor to conduct or cause to be conducted audits of all county funds, programs, and operations of any agency or operation of the county to include performance audits of funds and programs or operations as requested by Council by resolution, and to Reducing imports and expanding the agriculture sector, if done correctly can be a major step in addressing climate change. And we have enough land to support it all the issues are water infrastructure, high land costs, and low margins leading to a lack of willing farmers. The federal bipartisan infrastructure bill will help us address critical needs for Kauai including better roads and bridges, investments in public transport, and projects to address climate change and environmental and water quality remediation projects. Over the last 20 years, nearly 40% of new homes were built on agricultural land and less than 1% in the multifamily zoning districts in our town cores. Instead of a white paper, Id hope that the objective would clearly be to decrease the number of vacation rentals that we have on island (1 in 8 homes) and to do it through any means possible, including both zoning and taxation policy. But, rather than trying to micromanage the Administration, I spend the bulk of my time thinking about and working on policy that I do have discretion over. The plan contains the following six objectives: 1. I believe that the aim of regenerative tourism as outlined in the DMAP, if harnessed properly, can assist with economic diversification and an expansion of eco-tourism, true cultural experiences and more revenue staying on Kauai. But some do - like longtime Kaua'i politician Ross Kagawa, who has been chosen to fill a vacancy on the Kaua'i County Council. These would be areas that I would prioritize and immediately investigate how we are able to tap into the funds for these projects. A thriving agriculture sector includes small diversified farms, neighborhood food production, livestock, loi kalo, and export crops in which Kauai continues to be the Garden Island. 808-652-4363. You cant take a risk on starting a business if you cant afford rent. Addressing the combined impacts to the climate from ecosystem loss and destruction of environmental services, CO2 production due to transport of food through programs that support local food production and access are critical. We also need to solve our traffic problem as this project once completed will create more traffic as well. Whereas a resort that falls into becoming a distressed property presents significant, even overwhelming, responsibility for the county and community. I will work with and support our Mayor, our Office of Economic Development and our Community & Business leaders to implement our Kauai Comprehensive Economic Development Strategic (CEDS) Plan for 2022-2026; most recently completed by community stakeholders from all six of our target industry clusters on Nov. 30, 2021. An Incinerator is needed in Kekaha. More effort needs to be done to include various professionals and stakeholders to explore more solutions solve this very complex issue that our whole state is failing at. To start the county could start with preparing and feeding our soil to give agriculture ventures a boost when they are ready. Click here. Out-smarting inflation is a big ask, especially when the main developer is the government through tax-payer funding. Solid waste is one of the largest issues we face right now. If we run out of room at the Kekaha landfill without a new landfill ready to go, we may be forced to temporarily ship our waste off island at incredible cost to taxpayers. I will work with our administration to practice waste diversion in all departments and lead by example by starting with the county council. I love this island, I put my name on the ballot to make an effort for positive change. Collaborative action by community stakeholders has addressed unsustainable visitor growth as well as climate change and social inequity. Project site was mass graded and designed to have a combined drainage system with a shared roadway. It will show a land swap option to move our most vulnerable coastal homes in West Kauai onto the Countys Waimea 400 lands more mauka; allowing new County beaches to form. Making sure we increase our Capital Improvement Projects investments as we have done in this most recent budget. If elected I hope to spend the time as a council member moving the island toward economic sustainability, revitalizing the county parks and the county sponsored sport leagues and work on solutions that will help local people find housing. Right now our countys vision is to, Increase agricultural income and opportunities on Kauai through working closely with farmer groups to assist them in obtaining resources and other assistance to solve industry problems or take advantage of opportunities. My vision would to be to follow through with more programs focusing on educating the children and families in our community. Theres a lot of great aspirational policies in the DMAP that require strong private, non-profit, and state partnerships. While there is talk about airport expansions, tourism management and focusing on the right visitors, we fail to acknowledge the horrific impacts that tourism is having on our local residents. The tax could be on a scale depending on location, the type of building being purchased and how many purchases this buyer has made. A plan needs to be in place for some point in the future for maintenance and modernization. Provide more opportunities to discuss items on the council agenda prior to legislation being proposed. After the second presentation on May 17, I appreciate the 4 different alternatives for solutions to improving our Lhue Airport. I Want to plant more fruits and vegetables that can be dried and sold. To be a candidate for the Kaua'i County Council you must be a resident and a "qualified voter" for two years preceding the election. The following came from KipuKai Kualii, candidate for Kauai County Council. This year we had close to 15 million in our housing fund per our county budget, state and federal grants that will be applied to Lima Oil work force housing development in Eleele, we also have our Waimea 400 project and our Kilauea housing project on the horizon. This is the first decade since statehood where home construction on Kauai has fallen far below our population growth and its this lack of homes that is the driver of our exploding costs. Coco Palms is an extreme example of a small resort being too expensive to condemn and throw away, even after thirty years. With the proposed Maalo landfill site rejected by the state Department of Transportation because of concerns around the impact of birds on our airport, the county is beginning the process of siting a new landfill. And, of course, I really appreciate all of you being willing to engage with us when we reach out to you! Please feel welcome to call me if you need me. We can not keep asking our environment to give to us sustenance and for us not to give back. In the interim, tourists would be housed in hotels where they could move about the grounds . From a zoning perspective, we need to ensure that were doing all we can to ensure that agricultural land is growing crops, not houses. We need to cut out the vacation rental rate and just make it clear that your property is strictly residential or if any part of it is used as a vacation rental then you pay the hotel and resort tax rate. Keeping all taxpayers in mind when making decisions that uses everyones tax dollar. Our County should also work in partnership with private entities wherever possible to create additional wastewater treatment facilities. I strongly support renovations and re-routing the pedestrian flow of the airport, but I oppose increasing the rental car capacity and increasing the size of our airport. The County can help by providing incentives to the agriculture industries. FILE - Ross Kagawa to return to Kauai County Council after Gov. Maintain and improve visitor satisfaction of their experience on Kauai. Waimea Huakai and Habitat for Humanity Affordable Housing, Waimea, Kauai. Kaumakani was officially known as Makaweli meaning "fearful features". Offering a more permanent 2% revenue stream into the Housing Revolving Fund to the voters through a ballot initiative is an imperfect measure that I will support. I believe that the first step in dealing with transient accommodations on Kauai is to enforce existing laws and eliminating all illegal transient vacation and short term rentals. Serving Kauai these last four years has been the greatest honor of my life and I am incredibly grateful to the voters for giving me this opportunity. We need to take a look at what other countries are doing around the world and bring a new system back here. We must continue to support these local programs, especially our sunshine markets that create better access to local ingredients. The other candidates for seven positions are Addison Bulosan, Bernard Carvalho, Felicia Cowden, Billy DeCosta,. The county is currently developing a climate resilience and adaptation plan which will include detailed policies to equitably retreat from rising seas and a framework on how and where to build resilient infrastructure and housing. I have been blessed and honored to have served Kauai for 14 years. LIHU'E A resolution set to go before County Council Wednesday would increase the maximum salaries of the mayor,. If elected, my focus will be on legislative bills that enable our local producers to be sustainable businesses and community organizations. Chapter 8.2 of the General Plan states that All TVRs should pay. Those are immediate questions that we need to answer in the budget coming up., Facebook Increasing taxes on vacant homes and TVRs can both discourage that practice (and get more homes on the market) and help ensure that we have a revenue base to get through the fiscal ice age. The compound annual growth rate of the passengers incoming between 2018-2023 is 3.2% at a time where I do not think we can cope with increased visitors and many feel we are at capacity. And lastly, I dont take any donations from anyone, so I can assure all of my voters, no one business, special interest group and or individuals control my decisions, Billy DeCosta, works for the people and all you need to donate to his campaign is your VOTE ! Over these last two years, I have shown a deep understanding of our budget and how to be fiscally responsible, so your tax dollars are not foolishly spent. I also helped spearhead sending a Council charter amendment proposal to the voters to approve dedicating 2% (est. Whats most important to me here is to learn from the many stakeholders in our economy who are working on diversifying our economy, taking the best ideas from the collective and doing what I can to support moving them forward. Having spoken with Hawaii DOT Airports division, my understanding is there has been a change of understanding regarding the sentiment of the community and they are willing to propose far more modest improvements and am waiting for such confirmation in a press release. I believe we must find ways to discourage off shore vacation rental home buying, which is playing a part in pushing local families out of the market. We have successfully reduced all our major events from delivering hundreds of pounds of waste to our landfill. I would refer to and continue to support the Kauai Comprehensive Economic Development Plan which provides a variety of strategies including affordable housing, providing better broadband access and the possibility of Kauai Innovation Center. If we are going to say we have a recycling program we really need to do it. Profound events are far more challenging with resort properties. Maintaining functioning infrastructure is the core bread and butter of county responsibilities. I know they paid their shade of taxes during COVID when none of them had any revenue coming in, but I would like to ensure those local families who had their family vacation rentals not get priced out. My late Grandma Suero would always say to me, Just anos, which means, just take care. Taking care is where well start and where well end, just as the generations that came before us on Kauai can be proud of. The night market is unlike other Night Markets as attendance are majority local people. I meet organizations where they're at . Council has approved ordinances to allow tiny homes, guest houses, additional dwelling units, and additional rental units for private, small-scale contributors, whereas there could also be potential for permitted farm worker dwellings if upcoming policy passes. If were serious about preserving our Kaua`i quality of life, we have to be willing to do our part as responsible stewards of our island home. I absolutely support what the people are calling for and that is a stop to unmanageable expansion that will likely only worsen the overtourism were already face. More excess revenue generated for 2022 occurred, in part, due to inflation on land values. Getting together with the State to support (perhaps w/ land & water) the establishment of agricultural community villages for our homeless interested in growing food for their own survival for starters. Updating our Ag Dedication criteria will before council this week. [I will try to] make sure our mayor and his administration are doing all they can in all areas and be supportive, Kagawa said. For this years budget, we have funded most of our long overdue deferred maintenance, we are making significant investments in capital improvement projects and we are replenishing our reserves which was absolutely critical during the worst parts of the COVID-19 pandemic. I would oppose increasing the rental car stacked garage facility. Another key component of my plan is stress the importance of our game mammals here on State and private lands that these species are an important food source to many families and that word, eradicate should be banned from our food source management plan, we should create an Industry that incorporates wild meat into processed products like, sausage, jerky, burger, etc. This is an essential step to assist TVRs to return to a homestead tax class in the event of a sale. I would continue to support the Aloha Plus Challenge program which focuses on six areas, Clean Energy; Local Food Production; Natural Resource Management; Waste Reduction; Smart Sustainable Communities: Green Workforce and Education. I will continue to push for audits so we can identify areas that we can improve and sustain our services to the communities. They are incredibly costly to build and maintain. Addison Bulosan (Nonpartisan) Bernard Carvalho (Nonpartisan) Felicia Cowden (Nonpartisan) Billy Decosta (Nonpartisan) Luke A. Evslin (Nonpartisan) Fern Anuenue Holland (Nonpartisan) I am committed to having discussions in the open so that the public is aware of what is happening. But, the industry has more than recovered. I do not support a Lhue Master Plan that does not consider the increased effects on our entire island infrastructure with increased capacity. We need to expand composting capacity, create diversion incentives for generators of commercial green waste and food, and address residential green waste and food waste which make up 28% of landfilled waste. E-mail sent to all Councilmembers only: Farm eco-tourism can grow. Voters on Kauai also sorted through more than two dozen candidates to elect members to the seven-seat County Council. Any additional density on agricultural land (like the constant push to allow ADUs on ag land) increases the value of agricultural land, increases the likelihood of non-farm development of that ag land, and makes it less likely that a farmer can pay off a loan or mortgage on the property. There should be a pick up like we have for garbage for correctly separated and cleaned items. I understand we have the lowest property tax rates in Hawaii, and the entire nation. Our keiki, sustainability and housing are where I plan to spend my time and climate change is not at the top of my list for a two year term. Kauai County Subarea Health Planning Council Minutes of September 15, 2022 Page 3 of 3 information/data to further assess the health care needs of the community. Transient Vacation Units have more acute impacts on the neighborhoods in the surrounding areas on the quality of life and potential availability of housing. I will continue to be supportive of the valuable efforts made by our Mayors administration and the housing department. The safety features that include extension of the runway and realignment of the taxi-ways are important. The Kauai County Code gives the County Council the exclusive authority to raise or lower property tax rates via resolution. It is an excellent blueprint for managing tourism on Kauai. In the tourism industry, we must continue to focus on regenerative and restorative visitor experiences that continue to empower our local businesses and organizations. However, the process to site and build a new one is expected to take just as long or slightly longer than the lifespan of our existing landfill. The Kauai Tourism Strategic Plan clearly outlines that our infrastructure only has the capacity for 25,000 daily visitors but that we are almost always above that. She had 1,176 votes less than Kagawa. We could be doing so much more for our island. I believe its critical to have early engagement so that we can draft the best bills possible. Which elements of the DMAP would you move to implement in the next two years? While we do control the power of the purse, the County Council has no authority over the timelines for infrastructure projects. Click here and log in to view this story Start Free. I feel the following actions are very important and I would move to implement them right away: A.2, A.6, B.4, C.5, all action items outlined in Action D Community, E.1, E.4, F.1, G.2, G.4, H.1 and I.1. Below are those that responded by deadline and their answers. Sounds a lot like our Native Hawaiian values of aloha `aina, kuleana, the kapu system and malama `aina. QUESTION #8What elements of the Lihue Airport Master Plan to do you support? Im committed to having an open- door policy and look forward to working with our businesses. Addison Bulosan Luke Evslin Lila Balmores Metzger Bernard Carvalho Fern Anuenue Holland Nelson Mukai Felicia Cowden Ross Kagawa Mel Rapozo Billy DeCosta Kipukai L.P. Kualii Rachel Secretario Search by Questions Search by Candidate I was unable to access the Airport Development Plan Chapter of the Lihue Airport Master Plan and the Implementation Plan Chapter, both I feel I need to better understand areas I may oppose. This is a state-wide effort that has and will defiantly make a difference for us all. According to the Department of Business and Economic Development, the average daily rate for TVRs in 2022 is $386.74 compared to $279.70 in 2019. We can move unspent CIP funds to other projects during the budget process and we can ask for status updates at any time and I have done both. I humbly ask for your vote, as an opportunity to give back to what has been given to me. This power granted by the Kauai County Charter led to a last-minute surge in testimony from residents advocating for Fern nuenue Holland, a community organizer and leader against developers plans to build a hotel at the site of the former Coco Palms resort. One of my favorite quotes is, Life is in the follow-up. Ill work closely with our departments and do regular follow-ups to make sure things stay on a timeline. The work of going after grant funding falls mostly on County Department heads and they do a great job along those lines. Also look at all areas to divert waste from going into the landfill. Making sure all communities from Kekaha to Haena including Niihau is treated fairly and equitable in receiving funding towards projects. I would suggest imposing a tax automatically on anyone purchasing homes and property from out of state. what states require consummation of marriage; new milford ct police scanner; reply to opposition to motion to compel california; environmental opportunities and threats in business; EVSLIN, Luke A. $3.5m) of real property tax revenues to our Housing Development Fund. Both our traditional Hawaiian people and later the plantations had strong, holistic (ahupua`a) land management practices that have been abandoned over the past 30-60 years. I went to Kapaa Elementary, Kapaa Middle and Kapaa High School. If elected, my focus will be to work with our administration and departments to secure as much funds as we can to improve our infrastructure on Kauai. But, for the reasons stated I think its the right decision. We need to site a new landfill and move on it as soon as possible. This is one of the most major issues that we face on Kauai. We need the funding to make these happen. He also served on the Kauai County Council for four years before becoming a Senator.. Incentivizing Homeowner ARUs Last term we passed several bills supporting Additional Rental Units (ARUs); waiving zoning permit application, sewer & building permit fees; creating a subsidy for water meters; and exempting EIAs saving over $20k per ARU in fees alone. 2) We need to put more money toward affordable housing to leverage private, state, and federal funds. I will work to address our solid waste concerns across the board. Explore FeliciaCowden.com for more info! All local sellers source from local vendors, thus fulfilling the circular economy. 1050. I need the assessments, ground water mapping, and rainfall data for these areas for the Puhi, Kalaheo/Eleele and Kaumakani/Pakalas locations. We need to site a new landfill. Batteries and hydraulic fluid will be removed next and work will continue today, according to the Save Honolua Coalition, which is operated by John Carty and Maui County Council Member Tamara Paltin, whose residency seat covers West Maui. My concern is with the proposed forecast increase over the next few years. And then when theres areas that have incompetence, see how were going to fix the problem.. At the moment, that is the only element of the proposed Master Plan that I support. 3. Our solid waste crisis is on a timeline and we need to act now. First, I would aim to pick an agriculture item that we on Kauai want and need and do market research to see what other state or country has the same demand for. As a council member, I will engage at all levels within the business community to assure that the relevant issues, concerns, and suggestions are heard and brought to the table for discussion. We need to do all we can to encourage housing development within our existing towns. vacation rental property class was created in 2014 to place properties used for short term vacation accommodations into a separate tax class. Every land use decision has to be based around a future of rising seas and stronger storms. Monitor these projects on a regular basis on our council agenda. On our own, the County cant solve all of these issues (as some issues like water infrastructure require state funding and regulatory support), but there are two realms where the County plays a vital role: zoning and property taxes. We also deferred a significant amount of road repairs and road resurfacing. 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