The committee convened at 2:30 p.m. to discuss routine gift acceptances, a resolution designating Disability Pride Month, a bill on affordable housing reporting requirements, and a major bill amending the city's affordable rental housing program (Chapter 32). The meeting resulted in several adoptions and a deferral for further study.
Aloha and good afternoon, everyone. It's Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026, and the meeting is 2 30 p.m. Will the committee on housing homelessness and parks meeting please come to order? I'd like to welcome committee members, Vice Chair, Tolba, Council members, Anishimoto and Wire Councilmember Cordero is on her way. Pursuant to Hawaii revised statute, Section 92-3.7. This meeting. Oh, and Councilmember Kia Aina. This meeting will be conducted as remote meeting by interactive conference technology with the following procedures in effect for the meeting. Members of the public will be allowed to provide oral testimony on all items on the agenda when each item is taken up in two ways in person in the council chamber and remotely before testifying. Each person shall state their name for the record and will be limited to a one-minute presentation on each item. All persons who registered to testify in person will be called upon first. Persons who have not registered will be given an opportunity to testify following the registered testifiers. Once in-person testimony has concluded, I will proceed to remote testimony via video conference or phone. When I call your name or the last red digits of your phone number, please follow the prompt and unmute. As both English and Olala Hawaii are official languages of the state of Hawaii pursuant to Article 15, Section 4 of the Hawaii State Constitution and HRS section 1-13. Members of the public may testify in either language. For oral testimonies offered in Olala Hawaii, additional time may be necessary and will be allowed for the testifier to provide an English translation of their testimony. HRS section 92-3.7 requires that all votes at a remote meeting be conducted by roll call unless unanimous. Therefore, I will first call for objections. If there are any, I will call for a roll call vote. Written testimonies, including the testifiers' address, email address, phone number, will be available to the public as described on the posted agenda. As a courtesy, please turn off or silence all cell phones for the duration of the meeting. For your information, Councilmember Augitoba filed with the city clerk's office a disclosure of interest statement identified as council communion communication 29 for Bill 18 reporting uh referring to affordable housing. Agenda item number one, resolution 26-32. Accepting gifts to the city of three high back traditional benches and three bronze plaques valued at $3,823.53 cents from Greg Wong to be installed at Kaimuna Beach Park. Members, please note that we posted on the agenda a proposed CD1 to the resolution identified as OCS 2026-0104-2-19-2026, 322 p.m. And a summary of the amendments is listed on the agenda. Here with us today, we have Deputy Director Khaolani Poo. Do we do not see uh Deputy Director here? Is there any other director that wants to speak in her place? Just kidding. You guys don't have to. Okay, guys, it's a bench. I think everything's fine. If you have questions, email Kehau later. Thank you. Um members, we are in discussion. Seeing none. The chair recommends that resolution 26-32 be amended to the posted CD1. Huh? Oh clerks, are there any in-person testimony? Sure, there are none. Are there any remote testifiers? Chair, there are none. Thank you so much. The chair recommends that resolution 26-32 be amended to the posted CD1 identified as OCS 2026-0104. Are there any objections? Any reservations? Hearing none so ordered. The chair then recommends that resolution 26-32 CD1 be reported out for adoption.