Welcome back.

I'm calling this meeting out of recess.

These are special budget hearings happening all week.

This is our last day.

It's Friday.

Happy Friday to everybody.

Well, it's RB's one.

Mr.

RSL, they are on RD's presentation.

You can help them backtrack the public works.

Do you want to do you recess or are we good?

Joining us this morning is the Department of Public Works.

Good way to end off and our week here.

Director Sagawa, when you are ready.

Please introduce your team, yourself, and then go to your presentation.

And then after you're done with your presentation, we'll go to questions and we'll run to the budget with you afterwards.

Okay.

Thank you for being here this morning.

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Green button.

Good morning, Council members.

I am Wes Segawa, Director of the Department of Public Works.

Thank you for giving the Department of Public Works this opportunity to present the department's accomplishments, objectives, highlights, human resource status, budget requests, and initiatives for the upcoming fiscal year 2027.

As you know, I'm Wes Segawa, the director of the Department of Public Works, and beside me is our business manager, Kelsey Kalua Lewis.

Good morning.

Good morning.

And behind us is our deputy director, Neil Azevedo.

And next to him is our chiefs, and I'll name them Aaron Spielman, Building Division Chief, Kioni Thompson, Engineering Division Chief, TJ Forsyth, Highway Division Maintenance Maintenance Division Chief, Aaron Takaba Traffic Division, and Lyndon Turner Automotive Division.

Let's move on to the first slide.

Next slide.

DPW's program highlights for fiscal year 2025.

Does it work?

Yep.

Okay.

2025 included processing and issuing 50% of residential building permit applications within 60 days.

We completed 66% of building inspection requests within two days after notification.

We we are completing we completed 26.5 million dollars in federal highway funded construction projects.

We resurfaced 33.94 road miles island wide, completed 99% of incoming vehicle repair orders, and completed 86% of construction repair orders in-house.

We completed 100% of all traffic-related preventative maintenance duties, including biannual inspection of signalized intersections, and our annual UPS inspections.

And finally, the department gave safety training to 205 of our department's employees, and we gave non-safety training to 177 employees.

Okay.

We are on slide three.

Huh?

Okay.

All right.

Well, keeping in our mission, DPW's objectives for the fiscal year 2027 will include enhance customer service, transparency, relationship building, and community engagement.

We will be cultivating a culture of continuous improvements on residential building permit processing and inspection timelines.

We'll be advocating efficient efficient delivery and completion of CIP projects for both our building and engineering divisions.

We'll perform in-house repair and maintenance of all county vehicles and equipment, including welding.

So within 30 within 30 days, we expect to investigate and process traffic safety complaints and requests from the public.

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So DPW's accomplishments in fiscal year 2026 so far include being able to issue 87% of residential permit applications within 60 calendar days.

We launched DPW's countywide automotive work order management system for managing repairs and maintenance of vehicles, equipment, services, and parts.

We completed three major building projects that included the installation of a temporary air conditioning package system for our public safety complex, reroofing of the Alpuni County building, and temporary cold storage facility for the police department.

In addition, the DPW completed completed two major engineering projects that included the Lanicaola Street Rehabilitation Project from Kilway Avenue to Manono Street and the Mamalahoa Highway Resurfacing from Kamalani Street to Kalamauca Road.

We completed construction on Highway 137A 137A from Highway 132 to the Pohoiki Road intersection.

We installed traffic signals on Waikaloa Road at Paniolo Avenue, and the department installed raised crosswalks, speed tables, flashing crosswalk beacons, and street lights at Kalmana Caves in Hilo.

We also installed crosswalk beacons, speed tables, and speed hubs at other locations island wide.

And finally, the department created its own GIS project mapping system for improving collaboration and information sharing within our department.

Next slide.