Kailua Bay Advisory Council
Business Meeting Minutes
Windward Community College
Hale Alakai, Room #118
November 9, 2005
www.kbac-hi.org
I. CALL TO ORDER
Chair David Nagamine called the meeting to order at 6:50 pm. There was a
quorum.
Attendance:
* Board members present: Andy Brittain, Scott Derrickson, Jeffrey Harris, Mark
Heckman, Snookie Mello, and David Nagamine. Member excused: Toby Rushforth.
* Executive Director: Maile Bay
* Researchers – Tiana Sudduth and Christina Anderson
* Goody Consultants, Inc. – John Goody
* CSF – Judy Nakamura
* UH Sea Grant – Peter Rappa
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The City’s Community Representative seat is vacant.
II. ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS
A.Community Input – Peter Rappa, Extension Agent for Hawaii Sea Grant
and a Ph.D. candidate at theUniversity of Hawaii, Manoa Department of Urban
and Regional Planning (DURP) gave a brief presentation. In the Spring 2006
semester, January to May, the DURP and the Sea Grant Program are working
together to conduct a student practicum in Kailua to develop a Special Area
Plan as part of the City and County Ko‘olaupoko Sustainable Community
Plan. The students will be collecting baseline information that will be used
to characterize the community, including addressing issues of water quality
and affordable housing., They hope to work with the community and want to
use KBAC data collected on water quality. KBAC member, Mark Heckman, added
that the project should be sure to address land side issues that impact the
ocean, similar to the plan developed for the Chesapeake Bay. KBAC’s
Community Coordinator, Kia Okiwe, advised Mr. Rappa to contact her for information.
B. Director’s Report:
1. Mike Piper has resigned from the City’s community seat on the board
due to his busy schedule. The City will be appointing a new representative
and has selected from among its members a new chair for KBAC, David Nagamine.
The Executive Committee will consist of David Nagamine, Snookie Mello, and
Scott Derrickson.
2. Update of WRAS deliverables taken from the DOH 3rd quarter (June-Sept.)
report.
a. KBAC hired one student researcher, Christina Anderson, to replace Miranda
Smith, who has returned to school. Researchers are currently working on the
project deliverables;
b. KBAC completed writing the summaries of past assessments of water quality;
c. Revised and updated Table 4A of the 2002 Ko‘olaupoko WRAS to include
any
findings of problems from research and studies, management measures,
stakeholders and amounts of financial assistance needed; and
d. Developed criteria to determine whether load reductions are being achieved
over time.
Status of WRAS tasks since last quarter deliverables noted in bold:
a. On July 28, 2005, submitted to DOH for 30-day comment period, a summary document and matrix of studies and research conducted since the last WRAS that included a summary of the findings/recommendations from the same. DOH accepted the summary and matrix after its review.
b. Summaries from those meetings will be used to update the WRAS recommendation; summaries will be posted on the KBAC web site when completed.
c. Two researchers resigned in October to return to the Mainland; KBAC is advertising for two more positions. One researcher remains on staff.
3. Update of BMP deliverables taken from the DOH 3rd quarter (June-September)
report)
KBAC requested a 3-month extension on all deliverables. KBAC received verbal
confirmation for DOH that this request was granted.
a. KBAC held its first public meeting on August 2, 2005.
b. KBAC has contracted Hughes & Hughes Landscape Architecture to develop
the site design, including selection of BMP’s and development of an
Operation and Maintenance Plan, and oversee construction for the BMP Garden;
and LET to do the virtual park.
c. Kamehameha Schools has extended KBAC’s right of entry to the project
site.
d. Students from Keolu Elementary, Lanikai Elementary, and LeJardin schools
will be involved with the web development.
Status of BMP tasks since last quarter deliverables:
a. Conducted the 2nd community meeting on October 20th.
b. Hughes & Hughes developed existing and proposed drawings for the site and had a topographic survey completed at the site.
c. Met with Kamehameha Schools’ representatives on Monday, November 7, 2005, regarding necessary steps to conduct the project at this site.
d. Met with Chuck Burrows, President, ‘Ahahui Malama I Ka Lokahi the week of November 7th regarding partnering for long-term maintenance for the project.
3. Kia Okiwe, KBAC Project Coordinator, has provided her proposed budget
for the year. The major change in expenses included additional software to
facilitate the WRAS project as she has explained in her report. Recommend
voting to approve the budget.
A motion was made by Harris and seconded by Derrickson to approve Okiwe’s
budget. Vote: 6 ayes.
4. Donna Wong has been working with the TMDL study group informally regarding
the HIMB study that was reported to HERR. KBAC needs to continue to follow
up with HERR regarding the status of its response.
5. The hydro-modification device contract has been executed. The Director,
Dept. of Budget and Fiscal Services, signed the contract dated September
22, 2005 on October 10, 2005. The Dept. of Environmental Services has selected
Option B, in-house design and preparation of bid documents, as described
in the scope of services.
6. Conduct weekly staff meetings with Kia and also with the team for the
BMP park project. John Goody meets regularly with the team for the WRAS project.
7. A student from Kailua High School called to ask if KBAC would like to
receive funding from its fund drive selling arm bracelets to be earmarked
for saving Kailua Bay. She says she will get in touch again in two months.
8. KBAC contracts will be discussed in executive session; contract status
matrix and
other attachments will be forwarded under a separate cover.
C. Kia Okiwe – Community Coordinator’s Report
WRAS
1. Per discussions with Scott Derrickson and John Goody, we have decided to go with the ESRI maps that show 21 watersheds for the GIS evaluation, instead of the 11 ahupua‘a that KBAC currently uses. For purposes of history and cultural context, the ahupua’a delineations are accurate and will still be used in the text of the WRAS. However, the 21 watersheds delineations are more accurate when compared to satellite imagery and digital elevation maps, and are more useful in describing water quality. Derrickson wants to be assured that the ahupua‘a remain in the document; Okiwe noted that they will be captured in the text.
2. The project team also developed a protocol and checklist to evaluate
each watershed
using GIS. KBAC researchers have started the protocol for each watershed. To
timely complete the checklist, KBAC needs to purchase the GIS extension software,
Spatial Analyst. Spatial Analyst will be used with another program (ATtILA)
that
will use the following GIS layers:
* Satellite imagery
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Elevation and slope
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Streams
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Roads
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Population
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Precipitation
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Water Quality
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Land Use
With these layers, ATtILA can produce the following outputs:
• Nitrogen and phosphorus loads;
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Changes due to management measures (done by running the model again under
different land use scenarios);
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Summary statistics for any attribute field in a point theme, summarized by
zones (polygons);
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Percentage and total area of any land cover type;
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Amount of agriculture on steep slopes;
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Percentage and total area of land cover within a specified stream buffer
zone
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Land cover near selected points (i.e., water quality sampling points, NPDES
site, etc);
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Population density;
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Amount of impervious surface;
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Road density and length;
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Number of road/stream crossings;
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Length of roads near streams;
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Common statistics for precipitation, elevation, slope. (range, minimum, maximum,
standard deviation);
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Stream density;
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Stream length; and
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Meta Data that describes the calculations made and date made/
Data can be displayed as quantile maps, metric index (combining many metrics into one value), column charts of selected metrics, and metric histograms
KBAC researchers have looked at other GIS watershed models, but find ATtILA best fits our needs. We have a contact available to answer questions at DOH who has run ATtILA several times. ATtILA eliminates the need to build individual queries in GIS, and, in addition to estimating pollutant loads, the software can answer many of the checklist questions all at once when it is run. After an in initial learning curve, it will save much time. Although ATtiLA is a free software, it needs Spatial Analyst to run. Thus, this software is included in my yearly budget for KBAC approval.
3. Currently working on a stream monitoring protocol for the Ko‘olaupoko Moku. I am looking into the feasibility of doing a baseline assessment of all of Ko‘olaupoko Streams using the KBAC stream survey. We would like to have upper, middle, and lower reaches of each perennial stream in the district be surveyed in a close proximity of time. Also, we can incorporate education into the monitoring protocol by having students complete the survey.
4. The WRAS Table 4A has been updated to include information from the annotated bibliography.
5. Currently, Tiana Suddeth is our part-time researcher. Miranda Smith returned to Duke University for her Masters program in August, but is expected to return next summer to work with KBAC. Peregrine Edison-Lahm has returned permanently to Oregon due to family illness. KBAC recently hired Christina Anderson; she will be leaving on November 11 to take a position on the Mainland. Thus, we are advertising for new researcher positions.
BMP Park
1. Organized the second community meeting held October 20th.
2. I have contacted the Kailua Outdoor Circle and the Master’s Gardeners to create interest in partnering with KBAC and maintaining the garden site.
3. Please see DOH quarterly report (with Maile’s report) for other deliverables.
Community Outreach
1. (August 27) Organized the Upper Heeia Streamwalk with Mahealani Richards. Seven community members especially enjoyed this treat to go beyond the locked gated and guards to see this pristine stream and hear about its rich history.
2. Took pictures at A‘ala Point, Kailua, and talked with Kamuela Yim who has succeeded Kekai Irwin. Kamuela and the new school administrator, Christine Plunkett, will handle future progress and fiscal reporting for this project.
Other
1. Ka‘elepulu TMDL Meetings
Currently, the Sampling and Analysis Plan is undergoing peer review. The document can be found at: http://www.kbac-hi.org/TMDL_workgroup/workgroup_members.asp
If you would like to submit any remarks, please e-mail Dave Penn at: penn@eha.health.state.hi.us
The next Ka‘elepulu TMDL meeting is scheduled for November 9th at 11
am at Windward Community College.
2. We are still working with Maui Community College on completing the KBAC website transfer. The technical issues lately with Windward Community College that have disabled me from uploading new data to the website have been resolved. Mike McMahon is also working with me in resolving an issue with the interactive mapping site. Currently we get a “Try Reconnecting” again button.
3. I attended a half-day of the 2005 Wetland Management in the Hawaiian
Islands Workshop. I heard presentations from Eric Guinther on the botanical
survey at Kawaui Nui Marsh, Penny Levin on working with the community in
habitat restoration work at Waihe‘e Wetlands in Maui, and Hugo deVries
on his experiences at Ka‘elepulu wetlands.
4. KBAC researchers attended the Ko‘olau Mountains Watershed Partnership
Open House at Lyon
Arboretum where they networked with other groups working on water quality programs
in this
District. .
III. MINUTES
A motion was made by Mello and seconded by Heckman to accept the August 3,
2005 minutes.
Vote: 6 ayes.
IV. MEETING
Meetings will be held at Windward Community College, Hale Alaka`i #118 at
6:45 pm:
February 22, 2006 (Wednesday)
May 9, 2006 (Tuesday)
V. ADJOURNMENT
The business meeting was adjourned at 9:15 pm.