As specified in the Consent decree, this report is prepared to inform all parties of the work done by the Council through its three programs during the year ending June 2000. The programs are 1) the Technical Program; 2) the Implementation Program; and 3) the Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program.

The Council has undergone personnel changes and now consists of: Scott Derrickson, Jeffrey Harris, Mark Heckman, Benjamin Kama, Toby Rushforth, Christopher Winn, Donna Wong and Christine Woolaway. Minutes are posted on the KBAC website.

This was a challenging year for KBAC. An Executive Director, Ms. Sarah Young, was brought on board to get projects moving. Early action projects envisioned by the Technical Review process had sparked a court challenge to the Consent Decree. The Board (a volunteer organization) initiated a review of business processes and began creation of formal Strategic and Organizational Infrastructure plans. Forward motion on the Technical and Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring programs continued as well. Ultimately, the court challenge was met and the Strategic and Organizational plans were begun, leading to a much stronger business structure for KBAC to move forward with.

KBAC’s contract with the consultant, Mr. Eugene Dashiell, for the Technical Program expired in early September, 1999. Much work was accomplished during the 18 months of the contract. During the months of July and August 1999, the consultant worked with the State Department of Transportation, Highways Division (DOTH), City Council Member Steve Holmes, and vendors of geotextile fabric and other landscaping materials to prepare a program of highway cut erosion remediation. This activity took longer than originally intended because of the difficulty of preciously identifying the state highway rights-of-ways (ROWs) so that limits of soil erosion best management practices could be located on the ground. Maps of many of the "as-built" ROWs were provided by DOTH and are available for use in KBAC’s work. However, additional surveying on proposed erosion control sites may be required because the actual boundaries of DOTH ROWs and private lands may not be physically identifiable on the ground. It may be that KBAC’s differential GPS (geographic positioning system) could be used for this process. The differential GPS has an accuracy of a one meter radius or less so that if a remedial measure extended past the DOTH ROW into private property by a slight margin, the owner might willing accept the measure, if first coordinated with. If owners do not want to participate, then the measure can be limited to a distance of about one meter from the estimated boundary of the right of way. Such methods would avoid the use of more costly traditional land surveying methods.

Work proceeded on assembling historic maps, photographs and narratives of the development of the Kailua, Kawai Nui and especially of the Enchanted Lake and Waimanalo areas. These materials are intended to be used for preparation of the fact sheets for the projects previously discussed to reduce algal blooms along Waimanalo’s beaches, and to improve water quality in Kaelepulu Stream and Kailua Beach. Meetings and discussions were held with the Enchanted Lake Community Association and there support for the work was obtained.

The consultant for the Technical Report updated the mailing list, prepared, printed and distributed KBAC’s newsletter in August 1999.

In November 1999, after expiration of the contract, the consultant was retained to prepare an "interim" technical report as a guide to the status of the Technical Program. This report was submitted in final form, after courtesy review and comment by KBAC, on March 28, 2000.

On February 16, 2000, the consultant for the Technical Program attended a meeting of the Consent Decree parties and their attorneys, participated in discussions, prepared and submitted a memorandum of that meeting. A copy of the memorandum is included in the Interim Technical Report.

Prior to her resignation as Volunteer Coordinator in October 1999, Ms. Donna Ashizawa completed a Stream Mapping Project in partnership with Windward Community College (WCC). The project utilized GIS (Geographic Information System)/ GPS (Geographic Positioning System) technology to map stream areas in Ko‘olaupoko documenting water quality features for educational and informative purposes. The GIS data produced by the project is housed at WCC’s Hoa‘aina Remote Sensing/Geographic Information System (GIS) Center, and serves as a basis for future stream restoration efforts and projects intended to mitigate the impact of nonpoint pollution in the region.

In February 2000, the Council contracted the services of Mr. Ramsay Taum to fill the Volunteer Coordinator vacancy. The Contractor immediately went to work representing the Council first at the Governor's Conference on Volunteerism 2000 and Community Fair, and then again at the 6^th National Volunteer Monitoring Conference that was held in Austin, Texas.

Pursuant to the direction and request of the Executive Director, Ms. Sarah Young, the Contractor set out to prepare a preliminary summer work plan. Before doing so, the Contractor reviewed Council historical records including the Consent Decree, Council project and program reports (i.e. Interim Technical Report(s), Susan Miller’s Report, Problem Identification Report, etc.) and held numerous interviews with previous and current Council members and representatives of the plaintiffs in the original lawsuit.

The contractor designed a work plan that initially focused on the development of outreach and educational efforts aimed at building greater community and organizational capacity and involvement including, but not limited to:

• The creation and development of kupuna (elder) and ‘opio (youth) councils
• Development of community based learning and/or service centers where volunteers and community members could meet, work and access information and training related to volunteer water quality monitoring
• Coordination and development of volunteer water quality training and education programs from volunteers.

At the direction of the Executive Director the Contractor revised the summer work plan to focus on the Council’s efforts to incorporate the use of GIS/GPS technologies among volunteer water quality monitoring efforts and less on community outreach. The resulting work plan was initiated in June with a community needs assessment survey (asset mapping) effort to better understand the use and awareness of GIS/GPS in the community. Results of the survey will be included in the FY 2000/2001 annual report.

* Troy Falardeau - January `97 replaced by Karen Archibald

* Steve Holmes - August `99 replaced by Kimberly Lowe

- June `00 replaced by Scott Derrickson

* Jeffrey Harris

* Mark Heckman

* Edward Laws - March `00 replaced by Christopher Winn

* Fred Madlener - March `00 replaced by Donna Wong