HomeMy WebLinkAbout03/27/2018 Department of Public Works (Operating & CIP (CIP)) Public Works— Operating & CIP
Honorable Arthur Brun
Honorable Mason K. Chock
Honorable Derek S.K. Kawakami
Honorable Mel Rapozo
Honorable JoAnn A. Yukimura (present at 9:04 a.m.)
Honorable Arryl Kaneshiro
Excused: Honorable Ross Kagawa
The Committee reconvened on March 27, 2017 at 9:03 a.m., and proceeded as follows:
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Good morning. I would like to call back to order
the Budget & Finance Committee and the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-2019 Departmental Budget
Reviews. On the schedule for today, March 27, 2018, we have Department of Public Works
and their Capital Improvement Project (CIP) projects. Last week, we were able to get
through all of their divisions. Today it is just the Department of Public Works CIP projects.
As we do each morning, we would like to take public testimony at the beginning of the day.
Is there anyone in the audience wishing to testify?
There being no objections, the rules were suspended to take public testimony.
There being no one present to provide testimony, the meeting was called back to order,
and proceeded as follows:
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Seeing none, I will suspend the rules. Lyle and
Mike, if you want to come up?
MICHAEL TRESLER, Executive Assistant to the Mayor: Good morning.
Michael Tresler, Public Works. I also have Wade Lord, who is our new CIP Manager, and he
will be answering all of the questions today.
WADE LORD, CIP Manager: Good morning.
Mr. Tresler: Just kidding. And of course, Lyle Tabata, our
Acting County Engineer. If I can just start by a summary of our CIP submittal to the Council.
Basically, we did not add any funds to our CIP and what we did was move funds around
within the CIP to a few new projects, and to fund existing projects. As you can see, the
majority of those funds were moved from Kaua`i Police Department's (KPD) Kapa'a Police
Substation. The theme was to move funds to "shovel-ready" types of projects, projects that
were on the books for State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) matching our
federal aid matching and pretty much projects that are ready to go in design and ready to
closely being bid out for construction. If you look at the summary, again, pretty much a plus
or minus on the Proposed Budget Ordinance. We also moved moneys from Puhi Road Phase
II. That project got pushed out to 2022. I think we pretty much are completed with Phase I,
and tying up small punch-list items, but that road has been completed, and is working really
well. Part of the discussion on the deferral was that there is no immediate need right now to
push forward on Puhi Road Phase II, but we are doing the planning part of it. There is a
couple housecleaning measures, you will see some ins and outs on East Kaua`i development
of one hundred twenty-seven thousand dollars ($127,000). Kalaheo Fire Station
improvements were made and the Housing Agency helped with Community Development
Block Grant (CDBG) funding, so there is maintenance work that is left. That money was also
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moved out. The first add in would be Kawaihau, Haua'ala, and Mailihuna Complete Streets
Project that is on our STIP list for Fiscal Year 2019 and that is in design currently and then
there will be a lot of State meetings coming up. That funding is our County portion match for
the 80/20. Below that, we will skip down and loop back to the Ki ilauea, Koloa Road. The other
big-ticket items are our collector roads. Below that is Maluhia and K6loa and our focus has
been roads —, bridges —, highways — focused projects. So that is our additional need for our
matching funds for the collector road that is on the STIP. It is funded and split in two (2)
years, Fiscal Year 2018 and 2019, we are asking for more funds because of the size of the
project. Right below that is the additional eighty hundred fifty thousand dollars ($850,000)
for that same project. As County match for federal funds, the 80/20 match. Right below that
eight hundred fifty thousand dollars ($850,000) is the Olohena Improvements, which is
additional match funding for that project, which is on Fiscal Year 2019 STIP. That is the
same capital-type project of Olohena to do the reconstruction and improvements on Olohena.
That would be our County match. We already, I think we have one million dollars
($1,000,000)in the budget for that. So the total or Olohena would be one million four hundred
thousand dollars ($1,400,000) County match for seven million dollar ($7,000,000) project
estimate. Payroll and personnel project, they needed additional funding to do, I think it is to
acquire a new software that they have been working on. I know they had some challenges,
but I think their solution and I think if you want more detail, I can swing back to it.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: That one we will take when HR comes in. We will
do all the ones that have "W' in the front. I think you did a good summary on the bond fund
projects, and I think we will just stay on that for now. We will look at the bond fund projects,
and again, we are looking at Public Works. So it is the bond-funded projects that start with
a "W" on them and if we have any questions regarding any of those projects, we will go
through this now and once we get through the bond fund projects, we can move on to the
other funds. Do we have any questions from the Members? Councilmember Yukimura.
Councilmember Yukimura: Thank you. Good morning. Lima Ola, do we
discuss that now, or do we wait until Housing comes?
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: We are going to wait for Housing. If you see that
second column, there are letters in front of the bond projects.
Councilmember Yukimura: Excuse me, you just said that.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: All the ones with "Ws" is Public Works and
anything without"W," we will take on Thursday.
Councilmember Yukimura: Is there a description of what is going to be done
with the Kapa'a Police Substation?
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: I am sorry to interrupt, I know you mentioned we
did not add projects, but we actually just passed a bond float, I think it was a few months
ago. So we do have those added projects, which the Kapa'a Police Substation is one of those
projects that was on that bond float.
Mr. Tresler: Yes. Our original amount was fourteen million
dollars ($14,000,000) and we added twenty-six million dollars ($26,000,000)bond float, which
is indicated when you look at "W," it has an eighteen (18) in front of it and if it has that
eighteen(18), that is part of the recent bond float, the twenty-six million dollars($26,000,000)
bond float. The Kapa'a Police Substation, we have a description. What is targeted for is to
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be located in Kawaihau District on Mahelona site. They had site control and now they do not.
So part of their agreement to utilizing the funds now for other projects that are ready is that
they have some work to do on, again, there is a new board and to acquire site control. So we
are helping, and Doug Haigh has stepped through Lyle's direction, to help them with that
process, such as the planning process and environmental process for that project.
Councilmember Yukimura: So they do not have site control?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, they actually did originally and then
something had changed and so now they are having to go back through the new board for
approval.
Councilmember Yukimura: Our approval was based on them having site
control.
Mr. Tresler: Yes, they did, and something happened. I did not
get the details of it, but what I was told was that they needed to re-go through the new board
for preapprovals and they have their environmental assessment (EA) process to also go
through. We are assisting them with that. They are also, I think Nadine at the State-level
is actually doing a general plan of that area, too.
Councilmember Yukimura: So it is even less certain?
Mr. Tresler: I think that is all part of their discussion in there,
and it is not like they do not...
Councilmember Yukimura: So we are going to hold up $3,000,000?
Mr. Tresler: We are actually in current discussions now about
that funding. They have another project that is further along and went out to bid that needed
additional funding, so we may handle that in this current year versus Fiscal Year 2019.
Councilmember Yukimura: Well, I mean, are you going to be able to expend it
if it is earmarked for the Police Substation? Are you talking about the (two million six
hundred ninety-three thousand dollars ($2,693,000) that you are taking out the six million
dollars ($6,000,000).
Mr. Tresler: There is a balance of three million three hundred
thousand dollars ($3,300,000) there. Point well taken, Councilmember Yukimura, and that
has been a heated discussion about utilizing the funds now versus having it sit there. So
there is a need. We do is have the Adolescent Treatment Center that is undergoing some
value engineering, but in all indications there may be more funding needed. We are not sure
at this point, but they also have projects at their training facility and their K-PAL building
that is short funding for construction.
Councilmember Yukimura: Where is that money? I mean we have to approve
it. It is not like they can just use it as a slush fund to do any project that they want to.
Mr. Tresler: Yes. That is certainly true. But what I am saying
is that this is what we are proposing for Fiscal Year 2019. We are in discussions about the
balance of the three million three hundred thousand dollars ($3,300,000) and we are not
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really sure yet on where that will be allocated. So it could come up as a money bill moving
forward, or it could be handled in the May supplemental submittal.
Councilmember Yukimura: I think we want to know what projects you are
looking at because I do not want, like two-day notice that you will use it for certain projects,
which is what happened with the May submittal.
Mr. Tresler: Obviously, if it is a money bill, it will come to the
Council and it is too premature to discuss it, because we are just in discussions. You brought
up the point about having three million three hundred thousand dollars ($3,300,000) sit there
and it is a point well-taken. Obviously, our whole theme was to move money towards projects
that are "shovel-ready," so to speak.
Councilmember Yukimura: What is happening with the two million six
hundred ninety dollars ($2,690,000)? Is that scattered in the bond fund?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, if you look at the plus/minuses in there;
there are additions and other amounts in parenthesis that nets out to basically zero. So it
was bond funds moved around within the bond fund.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: There is a follow-up, too.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, okay. Did we not used to have a sheet which
had each project? Because some of this you are funding from several funds, and they are
scattered all over and we do not know what the total funding is. Unless we add it up
ourselves. I think it would be so much easier if you had the project that you had the different
funds you are using, so we can see what the total is, and a short description about what it is.
Mr. Tresler: I have that sheet in front of me and you subtract
the projects.
Councilmember Yukimura: Can you provide that to us?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, I can provide you a copy of it. I would have
to do some sorting, and organizing before that, but yes, we can provide you that.
Councilmember Yukimura: Go ahead.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Council Chair Rapozo.
Council Chair Rapozo: I just wanted to get some clarity. So the
building...they were looking at the Mahelona site and you are saying there are problems with
that site or something came up?
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Council Chair Rapozo: The issue you are saying is with the board of the
hospital?
Mr. Tresler: My understanding is that there is a new board
and so they need to present their plan and go through and gain approval.
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Council Chair Rapozo: I had heard that they were doing a needs
assessment as well, and that they, in fact, might have to capture or reclaim that land for
their expansion. I cannot remember who I heard that from. So the money that we submitted
with the bond application, you are saying—because I do not see the Kapa'a Police Substation
in here. You know the Kapa'a Police Station?
Mr. Tresler: In the bond?
Council Chair Rapozo: In the bond fund.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Yes, it is.
Mr. Tresler: It is W18013 where the negative two million six
hundred ninety-three thousand dollars ($2,693,000) is coming out from. Right at the top.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Second on the top from the bond fund.
Council Chair Rapozo: Okay. I am assuming KPD is negotiating that
with the State, with the hospital?
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Council Chair Rapozo: Is that still the plan though? If the hospital allows
it, because we signed a long-term lease on that; right? A very long-term lease I think. As I
remember.
Mr. Tresler: I am not sure what happened with that.
Council Chair Rapozo: We will follow-up. Thanks.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Are there any further questions on this Kapa'a
Police Substation line item?
Councilmember Yukimura: If you are allocating three million three hundred
thousand dollars ($3,000,000) (Inaudible). I think we would like to get a status report
(Inaudible). So two (2) things. This thing is being proposed as a bill right now. The three
million three hundred thousand dollars ($3,300,000) will be to the Kapa'a Substation, we
would like to know what it is going to be used for in that line item. And two (2), we want to
know what the status is of the site control? Because we would like to know how long it will
take if this is a simple thing and just wait for the board to schedule a meeting is one thing.
But if we are waiting for a general plan to be done for the site, how long is that going to take?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, and I think everyone is cognizant of that
situation, and that is the discussion of moving a lot of that three million three hundred
thousand dollars ($3,300,000) over to another of their projects or some of it and then leaving
an amount for planning and design. That is the discussion and the plan. So far as the project
description, I do not have it. I have it for the new proposed description that preceded me.
But that also went through the bond process, and that was discussed and provided. So we
will resend that project description.
Councilmember Yukimura: If the project cannot move forward, you are not
actually going to be using it.
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Mr. Tresler: Councilmember, I am specifically addressing
your—you want to understand what it was being used for. That was all discussed previously
and I will provide that information. I just want to point that out that ongoing question, we
will get KPD to answer that specifically on what is happening with site control.
Councilmember Yukimura: Alright. Thank you.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any other questions on this one? If there are any
other line items, we will just go through the line items and have all the discussion. Once we
are done, I will just cross it off. I do not expect us to have a question on every single one, but
we will go through the ones that we have questions on. Any other questions? We will stick
to the bond fund.
Councilmember Yukimura: With the "W"
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: With the "Ws."
Councilmember Yukimura: So the `Aliomanu Road Improvements, that is two
million dollars ($2,000,000), which will be completed in this Fiscal Year?
Mr. Tresler: No.
Councilmember Yukimura: No?
Mr. Tresler: No. So `Aliomanu?
Councilmember Yukimura: I mean the Fiscal Year 2019.
Mr. Tresler: Yes, yes. Yes. We finalized the supplemental EA
and actually in April 2018, we are going back to secure the easement with the Department
of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL). That was a process that we needed to go through. Our
projection is to secure permits by the end of the 2018 and go out to bid thereafter in the first
quarter or as late as 2nd quarter 2019.
Councilmember Yukimura: So you will finish probably?
Mr. Tresler: We will is certainly go out to bid and start
construction.
LYLE TABATA, Acting County Engineer: We will start.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Councilmember Chock.
Councilmember Chock: I know, I think Councilmember Yukimura
brought it up, last year in the previous budget we did have a different spreadsheet and I do
not know if it was Keith behind that in providing some of the Excel timeframe that was
categorized. Is that what you said you were looking at, that the request was?
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
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Councilmember Chock: Yes. I am a little bit more lost this year because
of it and I like that format and if it is possible, that would be helpful. Because I think what
will happen, we will go through the list and the same questions will come up so far as timing
and so forth.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: If we can take note on the CIP projects that are
coming up on Thursday. Those were probably put in the same format. Any more questions
on Aliomanu?
Councilmember Yukimura: I do have a question on pump station. That will be
completed in this Fiscal Year?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: In 2019?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, it is being bid out, actually, last week. We
hope to award the contract.
Councilmember Yukimura: May I go on to Puhi Road?
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any other questions? Okay, we can move on to
Puhi Road. Council Chair Rapozo.
Council Chair Rapozo: This Ka'ana Building Energy Initiatives.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: We are going to wait for...
Council Chair Rapozo: Sorry, there is no "W." I am sorry about that.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: No problem.
Mr. Tresler: That was part of the current bond float.
Council Chair Rapozo: Right, but I was just curious on where we are at,
but I will wait for the right department.
Mr. Tresler: We are not anywhere right now. We just started
trying to get organized on that project.
Council Chair Rapozo: Got it.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Puhi Road.
Councilmember Yukimura: I had a question about the Ka'ana Building, too.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Let us wait.
Councilmember Yukimura: I want to tell them what the question is so they
can have it on Thursday.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Sure.
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Councilmember Yukimura: It feels like we have spent so much on the Ka'ana
Building...that is the police building; right? On the Ka'ana Building energy for a decade, we
have been spending money on it.
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: I want to know what is the total amount we have
spent on the energy system since that building was built and when is the end in sight?
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Okay. We got that question down and we will
send it over.
Councilmember Yukimura: Great, thank you.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Councilmember, you are on Puhi Road and the
note that it is going to get delayed to 2022.
Councilmember Yukimura: That is why we are taking money out and we are
just leaving fifty thousand dollars ($50,000)?
Mr. Tresler: For planning and design, yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Why the delay?
Mr. Tresler: It is two-fold. Right now, there are other priorities
such as the collector roads that we made a priority on the STIP funding and we only get a
certain amount of STIP funding annually seven million dollars ($7,000,000) to ten million
dollars ($10,000,000). So the next Fiscal Year 2018-2019 and 2020, those collector road
projects pretty much take up the majority of that funding and, in fact,we are requesting more
than what we are known to normally get in an annual basis in case others fall out, we may
get more funding. Puhi Road as we said is functioning very well, basically it went from the
highway all the way down to the first part of Puhi industrial, or Kaneka Street and the other
section of\the road going past the commercial center is actually in good shape.
Mr. Tabata: Yes. So if you remember a couple of years ago,
when Puhi Phase II was imminent, about to start, we took some islandwide resurfacing
moneys and we paved from Kaana to connect the subdivision. That has been resurfaced and
that gave us time to then complete the planning and design for Phase II. Because we have
other more pressing needs presently, as Mr. Tresler mentioned, Olohena, and Koloa and
Maluhia, we are redirecting the STIP funds, so that we can move those projects up forward.
Councilmember Yukimura: That is good. You are actually putting it back into
the pot.
Mr. Tabata: Right.
Mr. Tresler: It is still in the system.
Mr. Tabata: It is in the system. The project is still in the
system and we are just deferring it a couple years, so we can do these other measures first.
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Councilmember Yukimura: That makes sense as long as we are not deferring
preventative maintenance.
Mr. Tabata: No, no.
Councilmember Yukimura: Alright. That's good. Thank you.
Mr. Tabata: That preventative maintenance is from a different
CIP. Because this road was resurfaced completely.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes. Excellent, thank you.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Councilmember Chock.
Councilmember Chock: In regards to the Puhi Road Phase II, I know there
are issues within the complex, flow issues that have come up. Parking, and so forth. I just
wanted to know, because I know you folks did do some planning Phase II for parking, along
the road. So I was wondering if that is being taken into consideration. I do not know what
oversight we had, but I heard things wanting one-way flow. Because what you have is cars
parked on both sides of the roads, it is very dangerous and difficult in the industrial areas.
Mr. Tabata: So the industrial park itself is different.
Councilmember Chock: I understand that. I guess my point is there
should be some coordination in the planning of it, given the fact that they have issues coming
up. I just wanted to know if that is being taken into consideration in the Phase II.
Mr. Tabata: No. It is not part of the Phase II project. It is not
part of the federal-aid roadway. But we have received comments within the industrial
subdivision. We will have to get back to that association.
Councilmember Chock: We have parking right now happening on Puhi
Road in front of the industrial area.
Mr. Tabata: Yes. There was a plan to accommodate parking for
that section of roadway.
Councilmember Chock: On our side?
Mr. Tabata: On Puhi Road, yes.
Councilmember Chock: Okay, that is what I was wondering. Thank you.
Mr. Tabata: There was a sidewalk connecting to that
subdivision.
Councilmember Chock: Right.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any further questions on Puhi Road? I do want to
thank you folks because I think two (2) budgets ago, Puhi Road was all the craze. We were
getting complaints about Puhi Road nonstop and I think ever since the work you did on it, I
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have not heard anything about Puhi Road since. So thanks for that. Councilmember
Yukimura.
Councilmember Yukimura: What was the total amount to finish Phase I? You
can send it later, if you want.
Mr. Tabata: I believe it was just over four million dollars
($4,000,000), just short of four million dollars ($4,000,000), I believe.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. How long a stretch did we work on? About
half a mile?
Mr. Tabata: Yes. Just short.
Councilmember Yukimura: Thank you.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: The four million dollars ($4,000,000)was the total
cost or our portion?
Mr. Tabata: Total cost, yes.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Did we use STIP on that project?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: So we only paid twenty percent (20%) of four
million dollars ($4,000,000)?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any further questions? We will move on from
Puhi Road. Councilmember Yukimura.
Councilmember Yukimura: Niumalu Bridge Replacement, I noticed it is in
two (2) places in the budget, so what is the total cost for that? Six hundred fifty thousand
dollars ($650,000) and then another fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) and it is still in the bond
fund. Do you see on page 3, in the middle of the page, Niumalu Bridge Replacement, fifty
thousand dollars ($50,000) and then page 2, which we are on right now, Bridge Replacement,
six hundred fifty thousand dollars ($650,000). Is the total cost seven hundred thousand
dollars ($700,000) or is there other places that you also have...
Mr. Tresler: No, Niumalu is a County-funded project.
Councilmember Yukimura: Totally County.
Mr. Tresler: The fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) reflected was
original funding of the project. The six hundred fifty thousand dollars ($650,000) was with
the new bond float and I think they assigned it a different project number. That is the funds
that were allocated from the bond float.
Councilmember Yukimura: I guess there is a good reason why they assigned
a different bond number...is it to confuse us about what the total cost is? It is possible.
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Committee Chair Kaneshiro: I think what they did was they put all of the new
bond fund projects, 2018, you can see after the letter, there is a number 2018. It shows that
all these first projects are all the new bond float projects.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Next year on thenext go around, it will end up
being just in alphabetical order next to each other, but I think they tried to highlight that
these were the new bond fund projects on the top. Yes, it does get a little confusing when you
have some money in the original bond and then you have some money in the new bond.
Councilmember Yukimura: I think there might be some that are General
Fund, but anyway. So the master sheet would just really help, I think, to see the big picture.
Thank you. Is Niumalu Bridge a priority bridge presumably?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, we are working on the planning of that bridge
presently.
Councilmember Yukimura: Do you have a total bridge plan? Like we have a
highway road plan where we have an assessment of their condition, and then we have the
priorities based on their condition? The ones that could fall apart, we are going to do first
rather than the ones that just need a little bit of maintenance.
Mr. Tresler: We do biennual bridge inspection and we have
that program, but those are for federal aid bridges.
Councilmember Yukimura: For what?
Mr. Tresler: Federal aid bridges. Part of our discussion in the
GET. Presentation was to implement a Countywide bridge inspection and replacement
maintenance program.
Councilmember Yukimura: Good.
Mr. Tresler: We have the plan. As we get full GET funding, I
think the plan was to implement our Countywide bridge, annual bridge inspection and
maintenance program. It is needed, very much needed.
Councilmember Yukimura: Are we going to have a Countywide bridge
replacement plan or...I mean this is CIP, right? So, it is not maintenance.
Mr. Tresler: You are right. We are talking about CIP now, but
what I am talking about is using GE funds, which we can do the annual inspections,
maintenance and replacement in conjunction with our CIP.
Councilmember Yukimura: Just having an inspection program where they go
out and say, "This is so and so about the bridge," does not give you a comprehensive plan that
prioritizes which bridge to do first.
Mr. Tresler: Yes, and part of it is identifying inventory,
Councilmember. When you do the inspections, it is to inventory all the County's bridges,
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culverts and so forth, and then do the rating and inspections and have that list. Then can you
can develop the program thereafter.
Councilmember Yukimura: Therefore, your first expenditure for GET funds is
going to be to develop this system and plan? We did not give you folks replavement money
for roads until you came up with a plan that we saw was based on objective criteria and was
not just political pull and all of that; right?
Mr. Tabata: Yes. Councilmember, we do have a number of
bridges slated right now that need attention, and Niumalu is one of the highest priorities
right now.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Mr. Tabata: Already programmed is Puakea and Opaeka`a and
they are already programed in. As we develop the balance of the projects of the next phase of
projects, they will be coming forward, but we have to get them on the STIP.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. Well, not all of them qualify for the STIP.
Is Niumalu a STIP project?
Mr. Tabata: No, Niumalu does not. Anything over 200 feet in
length does, and that is the guideline.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, and like you have been doing with the roads,
you have been strategic in where you have STIP money to leverage that; right?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, but I still do not get that by next year you
are going to have a comprehensive evaluation of the bridges done and a plan.
Mr. Tabata: We have evaluations of all of our bridges.
Councilmember Yukimura: Do you have a plan then, like we have a plan...
Mr. Tabata: We presented it when we asked for the GE moneys
and funds.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Mr. Tabata: We had a huge spreadsheet and we just need
to...now that the money is approved, complete scheduling and lay it out. We have a project
layout for a number of years already determined as the STIP funds are available.
Councilmember Yukimura: Are they based on annual inspections of all the
bridges and not just the federal aid, but all?
Mr. Tabata: Yes. Well, not all of the culverts. Those are
systems that we need to still identify and the LIM software that is presently being worked
on by the Planning Department and IT and the Department of Public Works, a number of
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agencies in the County, will allow us to memorialize the information. Right now these
information are...
Councilmember Yukimura: Or digitize it?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: I get it.
Mr. Tabata: ...on paper drawings and that is part of the next
step is to identify everything we have. Whatever bridge that is under federal aid is identified
and inspected.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, so you have bridges under federal aid and
then you have bridges not under federal aid, right?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: And then you have culverts, is that basically it?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Bridges under federal aid, not under federal aid,
and then culverts. Right now the bridges under federal aid are annually inspected and the
bridges not on federal aid, are they annually...
Mr. Tabata: We have identified specific bridges that the same
inspectors...we use County funds to inspect and we are just beginning that process.
Councilmember Yukimura: When do you expect to have in place all the
inspections done and kind of a comprehensive approach?
Mr. Tabata: I would like to say that it would take us a good
six (6) to nine (9) months to complete.
Councilmember Yukimura: Is that on your agenda?
Mr. Tabata: We are just changing the order to add the County
bridges.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Mr. Tabata: The present, upcoming inspection.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, because that would be important if you are
going to look at the full funding of the GET, although I hope some of it are going to be used
for transit and not just all for roads and bridges, but even so, there should be some money to
bring them up to speed. That plan is kind of needed, right?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
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Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. Do you plan to eventually add culverts?
How many culverts do we have? There seem really like a lot.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: In prior meetings, Keith Suga came up and said
that they do not have the inventory of every single culvert that they have and Mike Tresler
said as another budget cycle comes up, if we have more GET money, then that is the time
that they would go out and try to look for every single culvert and come up with a more
sophisticated plan. I think they do have a plan for what we know and they are trying to
address it. You can see that they are trying to address the major needed bridges right now,
which is like Niumalu...they have three (3) bridges on the list already, so I think they are
working on it. Sometimes it is a matter of patience and resources.
Councilmember Yukimura: I agree. I agree that culverts are a lesser priority,
but we can just keep going like we did with roads and address whatever roads we think and
then not set aside a small amount to actually do the inspection and get everything into a
comprehensive system. I do not know how important culverts are? But I know one culvert
that up in Wailua Homesteads in a big flood actually caused drownings long, long ago. They
can be important to public health and safety, and I just feel better if we had a comprehensive
system and I think the public would, too. Just so you know that you are going through a
rationale and objective priority process. I hope to see at some point, because it should not—I
do not know how much money it would take to actually put a comprehensive plan in place?
Mr. Tabata: It is not so much the money right now. It is the
manpower.
Councilmember Yukimura: Is it the time?
Mr. Tabata: As I mentioned in the Operating Budget, we are
still short three (3) Engineers in the Engineering Division.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Mr. Tabata: We need to fill those slots and build capacity, at
the same time, what you are requesting is expected of us, and so we will get there.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. Thank you.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Is the Niumalu Bridge single lane?
Mr. Tabata: Yes, it is single lane.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Is it going to remain single lane?
Mr. Tabata: The final design will be determined by public
input.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Okay.
Mr. Tabata: We will be going to the public and performing
community meetings.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Councilmember Yukimura.
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Councilmember Yukimura: Single lane is a traffic calmer, though, is it not?
Mr. Tabata: Yes, it is.
Councilmember Yukimura: We need to be conscious of that, especially if there
are kids running along that road. Do not throw away that advantage, unconsciously, we
really got to think about that. Thank you.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any other questions on Niumalu Bridge? If not,
we can move on.
Councilmember Yukimura: Waimea.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Councilmember Yukimura.
Councilmember Yukimura: Waimea Wastewater Treatment R-1, which I
think is a wonderful thing. That is going to give us sewage effluent that we can use for
non-potable purposes, right?
Mr. Tabata: Yes. This is a County match for EPA grant.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. Will that then give us enough money to get
the job done?
Mr. Tabata: Yes. At this point, yes. The final design.
Councilmember Yukimura: The final design. So, the goal for this FY is to
complete the final design?
Mr. Tabata: Yes, and then we will seek...because we would
have expended all of the EPA grant and we will seek SRF funding to do the construction.
Mr. Tresler: Our original budget was two hundred nine
thousand dollars ($209,000). We expended one hundred seventy thousand dollars ($170,000).
Councilmember Yukimura: Last year's budget?
Mr. Tresler: No, the beginning budget. The original budget
back in 2015, so this is the balance remaining. It has been in design and have been in process.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes. I went to one of their community meetings
and it is going to be a good thing. I appreciate the work on it. Helicopter Hangar is a "W."
What is the total amount? I think I saw it in two (2) other places.
Mr. Tresler: Where are you? Because it says "F."
Councilmember Yukimura: Page 2 has five hundred forty...
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: I do not know if it should be an "F" in front of it,
but it has a "W" right now.
Mr. Tresler: We assist Fire on that project.
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Councilmember Yukimura: I have a note that there is another place of two
hundred thirty-five thousand dollars ($235,000) for a helicopter pad.
Mr. Tresler: When the design is completed and what we are
currently waiting for is our design consultants had completed it, but we are waiting for more
State money. The Fire Department is trying to obtain more funding from the State.
Councilmember Yukimura: What is the total cost? Okay, I found it. On
page 3, about one-third of the way down, that is two hundred thirty-five dollars ($235,000)
and on page 2, it is five hundred forty thousand dollars ($540,000), that is seven hundred
seventy-five thousand dollars ($775,000), and you said it is going to cost more and we are
waiting for State moneys.
Mr. Tresler: That is my understanding and the update that I
was provided.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Maybe Fire might be able to update us on that
one.
Councilmember Yukimura: On Thursday?
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. We want to know the total budget and the
plan for the year, what we can expect in the time span of the FY, and hopefully there is no
more expense. I want to know what the operating maintenance is going to be on an annual
basis.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: That would be a Fire question.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: In their Operating Budget. Okay. Any further
questions on that? If not, we will move on.
Councilmember Yukimura: Can somebody explain the Wailua NPDES
(National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) Effluent modification design?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Is that the only amount in this FY budget?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Mr. Tabata: What we have in here is moneys that much like
last year, we applied for an SRF loan and while seeking the loan approval and then apply for
and receive, we have to have a placeholder. Once we get the SRF funds, then this becomes
available.
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Councilmember Yukimura: What is the total?
Mr. Tabata: We are asking for half a million ($500,000) to
finish the design.
Councilmember Yukimura: Then the five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000) will be available for other purposes?
Mr. Tabata: Yes. Like last year when we came and we asked
for the money on a money bill because we had to meet a deadline, of which we thought we
would have bond funds for, it did not come and then we had to appropriate money and then
the bond fund came. We put the money that we asked for from sewer fund back into the sewer
fund and then we had the bond fund to back us up. This is for the next phase.
Councilmember Yukimura: That is the total cost. It is the next phase, which
is the design phase?
Mr. Tabata: Right. First, we did the feasibility study and then
now we are going to complete the design.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, good. What is the final outcome on this?
Mr. Tabata: The design that we are currently working on is to
find an alternate means of effluent disposal and abandon our outfall because the conditions
that the Department of Health has placed on us, make it almost impossible for us to meet.
We had searched for a feasible option that we came up with was to install a leach field to
dispose of the effluent when we cannot send the effluent to the golf course. Presently, we are
looking at a design that will place our leach field in the soccer field area between the plant
and the golf course.
Councilmember Yukimura: Are you looking at the possibility of creating R-1
water?
Mr. Tabata: Yes. That is also part of the plan upgrade.
Councilmember Yukimura: Excellent. At least look at that alternative.
Mr. Tabata: As Jason Kagimoto mentioned, we looked at a
pretreatment screening opportunity that we just completed a pilot program for. The results
of that, we are hoping will yield the ability for us to create R-1 water more effectively.
Councilmember Yukimura: Because as was said from Kiahuna, his water bill
is high because he has to water his lawns and landscaping. If he could use R-1 water instead
of potable water, that would be a wonderful way to reuse.
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: And cut down on potable water use, which they do
not need and it is extremely expensive. For that purpose, anyway. Good. Thank you.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any further questions? Keep moving on.
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Mr. Tabata: Doug is here and he can talk about the hangar
now. Sorry, he just arrived, if you do not mind?
Councilmember Yukimura: As long as we do not need Fire here.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Sure.
DOUGLAS HAIGH, Chief of Buildings: Good morning, Doug Haigh, Department of
of Public Works.
Councilmember Yukimura: Good morning, Doug. May I? So I was asking
questions about the helicopter hangar, which is in this FY 2019 CIP Budget at five hundred
forty thousand dollars ($540,000) on page 2, and two hundred thirty-five thousand dollars
($235,000) on page 3. So that is seven hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($775,000).
What is that going to get us? They said, also, we are awaiting for State moneys, so what is
the total budget?
Mr. Haigh: The current estimate based on maybe fifty percent
(50%) design is about one million three hundred thousand dollars ($1,300,000). So we are
really hoping and relying on getting additional funds from the State.
Councilmember Yukimura: Have we requested that money from the State?
Mr. Haigh: My understanding is the Fire Chief has been
working on that and it is moving along. I do not know the details. Actually I saw him last
week and he mentioned that it was moving along, but I do not know where it is at in the
process.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. So we have basically about half the money?
Mr. Haigh: That is correct.
Councilmember Yukimura: So we should know by the end of the session if it
is going to be a State match. If there is not, then what?
Mr. Haigh: I am delegating funds to the Fire Department,
where I am focusing on the design and construction and relying on them to obtain the funds.
Councilmember Yukimura: So this will be for design or for construction?
Mr. Haigh: We are under design now, and additional funds is
for construction.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, you do say "construction." What is the
difference between "helicopter hangar pad," and "helicopter hangar construction."
Mr. Haigh: I am just assuming that is what Finance wants to
call it at the moment, but it is the same project.
Councilmember Yukimura: One is "W" and one is "F." It is the same project.
Thank you.
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Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Thanks, Doug. So we have gotten through the
new bond float projects. Everything below are existing projects that have been on the bond
before. Do we have any questions on any of the other projects? Councilmember Chock?
Councilmember Chock: What is left on the Anini Bridge, the
thirty-one (31). What do we have to finish?
Mr. Tabata: I believe it is closure moneys. We had a couple of
outstanding punch-list items and once all of that is completed, then we can closeout the
project, but it is not closed out yet.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: What is the status on the auto shop
improvements?
Mr. Tresler: Currently, we just started procuring out
professional design engineer. Doug, again, is helping our auto shop with that. We have done
at least one or two of them.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: That should increase the capacity of the auto
shop, right?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, we really need that. So we are pushing
forward on that project. I E-mailed you the Public Works projects off of that sheet and I do
not know if you want to print it off and have it in hand? We are close to getting through.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: We are moving through okay and we take our first
break maybe print out the project list, but I do not want to go back through the projects we
already talked about. So thanks for that though. Councilmember Yukimura, you had a
follow-up?
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes. So that auto shop improvements, which I,
too, remember as quite needed. Were we going to build in another bay or something like that?
Mr. Tresler: No, create a mezzanine.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Can I ask a question about the biennual bridge
inspection?
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: How much does it cost us to match the moneys for
biennual bridge inspection generally? Is it in the ballpark of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000)?
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Where is it right now in this budget?
Mr. Tresler: It is biennual, so...
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Councilmember Yukimura: Oh, biennual.
Mr. Tresler: We just completed.
Councilmember Yukimura: Are you going to put it in next year's budget?
Mr. Tresler: FY 2020, yes.
Mr. Tabata: I believe so.
Mr. Tresler: It is biennual, so not FY 2019, so it would be
FY 2020.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. What is the total cost? Is it an 80/20 match
too?
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Mr. Tabata: Yes, I believe so.
Councilmember Yukimura: So it is three hundred thousand dollars
($300,000)?
Mr. Tabata: I believe so, yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Twenty percent (20%) match. Well I am glad we
have the twenty percent (20%). Okay. I have a question on collector roads. Is that going to
be part of the Olohena...what are we using the two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for?
Mr. Tresler: There are several collector road funding, but in
combined, certain roads have been identified for the matching funds. Those other funds will
be used in conjunction for Koloa, Maluhia, Olohena, and the Kawaihau projects. So that
gives us some flexibility in case we need contingency or some overrun funding.
Councilmember Yukimura: So it is kind of a catch-all collector road.
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: How come two (2) of them?
Mr. Tresler: We can do housecleaning in May.
Councilmember Yukimura: So regarding complete streets, you folks are
coming forth with your complete streets grant description; right? Councilmember Kawakami
was reading off the amounts of moneys that we get in complete streets grants and I asked
that that be disclosed in terms of how the moneys are being used, income, expenditures,
and...
Mr. Tresler: I followed up with Lee and Lee is here. He
provided me one summary, and then what our projected revenue is for the next Fiscal Year,
which is seventy-nine thousand dollars ($79,000).
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LEE STEINMETZ: Good morning. I am Lee Steinmetz,
Transportation Planner with the Planning Department. What I wanted to go over, what I
understood the request was for information on some of the safe routes to school grants and
various funds that we have. So I was going to present that and can follow-up with some
document, if you would like. There are a couple of different funding sources that we have.
And it gets kind of confusing because of that, but one is the safe routes to school special fund.
This is funding that we received from the State every year, based on a surcharge on traffic
violations on speeding violations. There is, I think, a ten dollar ($10) surcharge on moving
violations, but it is a twenty-five dollar ($25) surcharge if it is in a school zone. That money
is it collected statewide and each county receives a certain amount of that funding based on
a formula where fifty percent (50%) is distributed equally among the counties, and the other
fifty percent (50%) is distributed based on population that lives within walking distance to
schools. So obviously O`ahu gets the most money in that fifty percent (50%) and Kaua`i gets
the least amount of money. We get about, on average, eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) a
year in that funding. That money is totally up to the county how it is spent, provided that it
is for safe routes to school projects. That money needs to be spent within three years of
receipt of those funds. Since we receive a relatively small amount for street projects, we
cannot stockpile those funds for ten years and do large projects. We have to use it on small
projects or matching funds for larger projects and that is exactly what we have been doing.
So generally speaking, we use it for design fees for projects that can be within that amount.
We use it for matches of larger projects or as a portion of a match for larger projects. Then
we also use it for small projects. If there are small projects that are maybe just striping and
signage, for example, we can use the funding for that as well. So far we have used a little
under two thousand dollars ($2,000) of that funding for geotechnical testing related to the
elevated boardwalk and then we used two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) of that
funding...oh, let me tell you what we have in terms of totals. Right now our balance in that
fund is one hundred five thousand dollars ($105,000) and we will be receiving another close
to eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) in April of this year. So later this year, our balance will
be one hundred eighty-four thousand four hundred eighty-two dollars ($184,482). So far with
the funding we used that small amount for geotechnical testing. We used two hundred
thousand dollars ($200,000) as a match for the construction of the Kawaihau elevated
boardwalk because that is within the walking zone of Kapa'a Elementary and does serve as
a walking route for some people and also to Kapa'a High School and St. Catherine's school.
We also used fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000), close to eighty-eight thousand dollars
($58,000) as a match for the design, the environmental and planning work for the Kawaihau,
Haua'ala, Mailihuna complete streets project.
Mr. Tresler: Can I just give you a summary?We received three
hundred sixty-seven thousand dollars ($367,000) and we spent two hundred sixty-two
thousand dollars ($262,000), and we net one hundred five thousand dollars ($105,000) as of
November. We will be getting the other seventy-nine thousand dollars ($79,000).
Mr. Steinmetz: That complete street projects serves
St. Catherine's and Kapa'a Elementary, so it is eligible as a safe routes to school project.
Councilmember Yukimura: Sounds good. Fifty-eight thousand dollars
($58,000) for the environmental planning, that is for the "peanut" roundabout that will
happen eventually.
Mr. Steinmetz: Yes, that is part of the project.
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Councilmember Yukimura: Right at the intersection of Kawaihau and
Mailihuna. Can you explain the State pot are spread equally among the counties?
Mr. Steinmetz: Correct.
Councilmember Yukimura: So, divided four (4) ways?
Mr. Steinmetz: Right.
Councilmember Yukimura: How is the other fifty percent (50%) allocated?
Mr. Steinmetz: It is divided proportionally based on the
population within walking distance to elementary and middle schools.
Councilmember Yukimura: If we actually planned our land use, so that we
that most of our kids walk to school, we would proportionately get more of that money.
Mr. Steinmetz: Yes, potentially. I am not sure that it would be a
huge amount more, but we would get a small amount more.
Councilmember Yukimura: What is the amount we get now?
Mr. Steinmetz: Roughly, we get eighty thousand dollars ($80,000)
per year.
Councilmember Yukimura: Is that including the fifty percent (50%) that is
done equally?
Mr. Steinmetz: Right, that is the total.
Councilmember Yukimura: What amount of that eighty thousand dollars
($80,000) is the fifty percent (50%), the second fifty percent (50%)?
Mr. Steinmetz: I can check on that. I do not have that number. I
just have the total number that we receive.
Councilmember Yukimura: It would be interesting to know.
Mr. Steinmetz: Sure.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, if you could get that. Right now you have
one hundred five thousand dollars ($105,000) present balance and you will get another eight
thousand dollars ($80,000). Their Fiscal Year is?
Mr. Steinmetz: It is the same as our FY.
Councilmember Yukimura: So there will be one hundred eighty-five thousand
dollars ($185,000). Do you have plans for how you are spending that?
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Mr. Steinmetz: We do. We anticipate that we have a project that
is grant funded, which I will be talking about anyway moment. The Kalaheo safe routes to
school project and we want to do that design in-house and do that with local funds instead of
federal funds. We may use some of the funding for that. We just completed a design, a multi-
day design workshop in Kilauea to look at their full area around Kilauea School and there
are a number of the projects and we will provide a presentation to you on that project at a
later time. But, there are some things that we can do just with striping and signage that we
would like to move forward with sooner rather than later, so we anticipate using some of the
funds for that project as well. Our approach moving forward is really to do community
workshops around each school and develop an action plan around each school and then use
these funds to implement the quick things that we can do better and cheaper.
Councilmember Yukimura: Councilmember Kawakami had a role in this law.
Was it not a Kaua`i initiated law?
Mr. Steinmetz: It was. Councilmember Kawakami introduced it
at the legislature and Bev Brody from Get Fit Kaua`i was really instrumental in working
with Councilmember Kawakami and our Mayor and the rest of our legislative team to help
that get passed.
Councilmember Yukimura: That is a real success story and I am proud of
Kauai for that. Thank you.
Mr. Steinmetz: We also have separate from that Special Fund,
Hawai`i Department of Transportation receives federal funds that are earmarked for safe
routes to school and those are from a previous transportation bill that was called"SAFETEA-
LU" (Safe Accountable Flexible Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users).
These were leftover funds that are still being dispersed. We have applied for and received
several grants for funding and this funding is one hundred percent (100%) federal funds,
there is no local match required, so it is a really good funding source for larger projects
although the maximum now of any grant is five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000). We
receive three (3) grants in 2014. One was for Islandwide RRFB crosswalks. RRFB is
rectangular rapid flashing beacon, so those are the flashing crosswalk lights, like we have on
Rice Street or at the roundabout by Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School. Let me explain
that we applied for a grant amount, we are awarded that grant amount, but we actually do
not receive that amount. It is reimbursable and we receive it in phases. We receive an
amount for design and we receive an amount for construction. We do not receive a
construction amount until we actually go out for construction. The amounts that I am giving
you are the amounts that we applied for and that we were approved for, but the final amount
that we actually receive will depend on the actual cost of construction. If it is less, we will
not receive the full amount. If it is more, they may award us more pending how much money
we have. For the RRFB crosswalks, the grant amount was two hundred forty-five thousand
dollars ($245,000). That project, we actually put out to bid and then we had to stop the bid
because right in the middle of that, the Federal Highway Administration had given approval
for the use of these rapid flashing beacon in crosswalks and then they rescinded that
approval, so we had to pull the bid because that was the essence of the entire project. Since
then, they have re-allowed the use of those and so now we can go out to bid again. For Koloa
School, some sidewalk improvements on Po`ipu Road in front of the school on Pa'anau Road
on the side of the school, we received a grant of four hundred eighty-four thousand eight
hundred seventy-five dollars ($484,875). That project is currently in design and
environmental and according to the current schedule, we are anticipating construction in
2019 or 2020. King Kaumuali`i School, we also received a grant of four hundred ten thousand
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dollars ($410,000) for improvements on Hanama`ulu Road. That is also in design and
environmental and we are looking at the same timeframe for construction for 2019 or 2020.
In 2016, we received a grant for Kalaheo Elementary School, which included repair and
reconstruction on Puu Road and also a park and walk on one of the side streets that accesses
Pu`u Road from the highway, so people do not have to drive all the way around to the school,
but they can park on the side street and walk to eliminate some of the congestion around the
school. That project is also in design and environmental and we are anticipating construction
in 2020 or 2021. Those seem like incredibly long timelines, but projects with federal funding
just take a while to get through the environmental, get through all the clearances through
HDOT and FHWA and so that is why those timelines are so long and also why we would like
to start using some of the Special Fund money for design because it is partly the procurement
process that really delays federal projects.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Councilmember Yukimura.
Councilmember Yukimura: Two hundred forty-five thousand dollars
($245,000)—you went out to bid, hold it, and then went out...what is that going to be spent
for? Are those for crosswalks around the island that are these RRFB?
Mr. Steinmetz: Right.
Councilmember Yukimura: What is the four hundred eighty-four thousand
dollars ($484,000) going to be used for?
Mr. Steinmetz: Koloa School.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. Four hundred ten thousand dollars
($410,000) will be used for King Kaumuali`i School.
Mr. Steinmetz: Correct.
Councilmember Yukimura: King Kaumuali`i on Hanama`ulu Road, correct?
Mr. Steinmetz: Correct.
Councilmember Yukimura: There has been numerous requests over the last
six (6) years, may be, for traffic calming along that road. I am presuming those kinds of
improvements will be included as you do these safe routes to school because calming the
traffic is part of safe routes.
Mr. Steinmetz: Yes. There are traffic-calming elements, yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, I know some people will be very happy and
that is 2019 or 2020.
Mr. Steinmetz: Correct.
Councilmember Yukimura: Then Kalaheo Elementary School, you said a
sidewalk on Pu`u Road and park and walk, which is great. Is that your first park and walk
project?
Mr. Steinmetz: Yes, I guess, actually a funded project, yes.
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Councilmember Yukimura: Thank you. Are you going to provide that to us in
writing?
Mr. Steinmetz: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. Thank you.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Thank you. Any further questions on this page of
Bond Funds? We are on page 2. Councilmember Yukimura.
Councilmember Yukimura: Just a heads-up to the Planning Department that
I would like to know what the status of the East Kaua`i Development Plan is. Eiwa Street,
LCC, HCB, side improvements. I would like to get a report on that because I do not know if
the Department of Public Works considered us done here on Eiwa Street or if there is going
to be more, but it is kind of crazy with people walking and cars going in and out. If the transit
stop is going to be expanded or more frequent with buses coming in, are we planning for the
future?
Mr. Steinmetz: There are additional improvements on Eiwa
Street that are part of the TIGER project and the Lihu`e Town Core Mobility and
Revitalization Project and that will be implemented as part of that project.
Councilmember Yukimura: Not right now, but is there some write up about
what exactly those improvements are going to be here?
Mr. Steinmetz: We can send that to you.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. That would be helpful. Thank you. Fuel
management, Chair. Are we done with this project? How come there is sixty-five thousand
dollars ($65,000) in here?
Mr. Tabata: The Fuel Management Projects is ongoing. This
was a phase that we were going to install more devices on vehicles to interface with the
system, so it will collect data and transfer data to our mainframe.
Councilmember Yukimura: Is that the next and final phase?
Mr. Tabata: I believe it is the next phase funded. Every time
we replace vehicles and equipment, we would need to fund.
Councilmember Yukimura: Is it working?
Mr. Tabata: Yes. The discrepancies of fuel use has been
minimized or eliminated entirely.
Councilmember Yukimura: So this money is for as we get new cars, we install
these devices in those new cars?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
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Councilmember Yukimura: Why can we not just make it a part of
procurement? That whenever we get a new vehicle, it is required in the contract or the
procurement.
Mr. Tresler: It is separate vendors.
Councilmember Yukimura: I bet if you put it out, somebody will.
Mr. Tabata: I never thought about specing a vehicle that way,
but it is an after-market product.
Councilmember Yukimura: What is it?
Mr. Tabata: After-market. Meaning, after you purchase the
vehicle, you can install, but...
Councilmember Yukimura: Well, if somebody wants our bid, maybe.
Mr. Tabata: Yes, I understand where you are coming from
because is it the same for a piece of equipment. You can spec whatever engine you want, no
matter where you purchase it from.
Councilmember Yukimura: It might save us some few steps in time in
bringing that new car aboard.
Mr. Tabata: Okay.
Councilmember Yukimura: If you can look into it, that would be good.
Mr. Tresler: Back to the Eiwa Street. That actual project was
completed and the balance of that fund is waiting for...I guess there was landscaping around
the Historic County Building, this building, but nothing happened, so the funds are sitting
there. As they mentioned, we do have that grant and the new project moving forward, so
those funds will be utilized in that project.
Councilmember Yukimura: If that is for landscaping of this building, that has
been a vision for a long time. I think there was a budget. I think Chair, you were involved
in it.
Mr. Tresler: That is what the eighteen thousand dollars
($18,000) is for.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, good. Thank you.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any further questions on this page?
Councilmember Yukimura: The Hanapepe Fuel Tanks. That was there last
year and so did we not get to it or something?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, our attention got called to Princeville. Our
Auto Shop Superintendent was in charge of that project, so his attention got shifted to an
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issue in Princeville and so we will be circling back for that to Hanapepe after that Princeville
fuel tank issue is resolved.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. So, it is just a matter of installing new fuel
tanks, right?
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: And that is going to get done this coming fiscal
year?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, that is the plan.
Councilmember Yukimura: Is that the report, pretty much? Thank you. That
is about it.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: If there are no other questions, we will move on to
the next page. Any questions on the Department of Public Works' items for this page?
Councilmember Yukimura: What is HCB and LCC site improvement, the first
item?
Mr. Tabata: Historic County Building and Lihu`e Civic Center.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. So we can take that money and put it in our
landscaping. Okay, thank you.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Is the Kalaheo Fire Station complete?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, their improvements were.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any other questions from the Members?
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, Kanaele Road slope stabilization of fifty
thousand dollars ($50,000). What is the status of that project?
Mr. Tabata: That is in design and this is just the balance after
we encumbered the funds for the design. Once the design is completed, then we will be
coming back for construction funds. This is all County-funded entirely.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. Thank you. Kanaele is where our transfer
station is, right?
Mr. Tabata: I believe it is further up.
Councilmember Yukimura: Oh, okay.
Mr. Tresler: Yes, further in to St. Catherine's.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any other questions on page 3? Kapahi Bridge,
they already talked about the bridges that they are trying to address. We see they added
money in for Kawaihau, Haua`ala, as STIP money. Councilmember Yukimura.
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Councilmember Yukimura: My questions are all not "Ws."
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: This Kilauea, Koloa Road improvements, is that
with the Department of Public Works?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, it is a combination and that is another one I
asked Lee to be here to explain what that project is about. Okay, well. It is a flat program
that involves Federal Fish and Wildlife and we want to do road improvements and a sidewalk,
basically, that leads from there lighthouse project all the way through Kilauea Town. Our
portion of this funding and there are going to be some roadway improvements is ten percent
(10%) or less and it is highly leveraged more than the regular federal aid of 80/20. These
moneys are slated for design work now and I think I was told by Lee that that would be our
total amount of the matching funds.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: It is okay. We can send over a follow-up question.
Mr. Tresler: Yes, we have all of the information and we can
send that over.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Councilmember Yukimura and then
Councilmember Brun.
Councilmember Yukimura: That is a wonderful vision. It is a sidewalk that is
going to connect Kilauea Town to the Lighthouse.
Mr. Tresler: Right. I think the hope is to minimize cars going
to the lighthouse.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, wonderful. They should put the Farmers
Market back into town. That would minimize car traffic, too. So this money is our money
and it is going to be less than ten percent (10%) of the total cost.
Mr. Tresler: That is what I was told.
Councilmember Yukimura: That is terrific.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Councilmember Brun.
Councilmember Brun: What are you folks doing with Kekaha Gardens?
Mr. Tabata: The project is completed. That is just balance.
Councilmember Brun: Thank you.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Councilmember Yukimura.
Councilmember Yukimura: Koloa Fire Station Improvements—that is in this
year's fiscal 2018 budget, right, and it just did not get done?
Mr. Tresler: Yes. It is still in the planning and design phase.
Councilmember Yukimura: That is a lot for planning and design.
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Mr. Tresler: That is for construction too, but it is that they are
currently in the design phase.
Councilmember Yukimura: I see. Okay. It is mainly major repairs or is it
some new things? I am sorry, I should know from last year.
Mr. Tabata: I believe this project is to reroof and then paint.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, that makes sense.
Mr. Tabata: This project actually went over to Parks with the
green box.
Councilmember Yukimura: I am sorry.
Mr. Tabata: This project went over to Parks.
Mr. Tresler: Yes, it has a"W,"but it is a building improvement,
so that is supposed to move over with Parks, but we still sometimes help those projects.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, good.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Further questions from the Members?
Councilmember Yukimura: This NPDES compliance, which is a "W" in the
middle of page 3, two hundred eight thousand dollars ($208,000), is that the same project as
the Wailua NPDES effluent modification?
Mr. Tabata: I believe this is the Solid Waste funding.
Councilmember Yukimura: For what?
Mr. Tabata: For transfer stations.
Councilmember Yukimura: Oh okay. That is for the consent decree
improvements, right?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: We had a consent decree.
Mr. Tabata: Yes. So this is for the design. This is just the
balance of what is remaining.
Councilmember Yukimura: It would really help if something else was in the
title so it is a transfer station and we distinguish it from the sewers.
Mr. Tabata: Again, this one is Solid Waste for Islandwide for
consultant who is working on the present final design and permitting.
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Mr. Tresler: It is an AECOM contract that is ongoing and
original funding was three hundred eighty-five thousand dollars ($385,000), so that is the
balance.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. Thank you. Can you tell us about the Rice
Street Crossing Improvements?
Mr. Tabata: These are funds that were put in place to look at
additional sidewalks and street lighting. We are leaving these funds here because not part of
the TIGER grant is the upgrade with State DOT to upgrade our street lighting, like they
have on Nawiliwili Road and then to fund the replacement and they will take over the
maintenance.
Councilmember Yukimura: Do you think we need to wait until we put the
utilities underground? Otherwise you are going to have...
Mr. Tabata: I do not understand your question.
Councilmember Yukimura: Well...
Mr. Tabata: The improvements include...
Councilmember Yukimura: You are going to change all the lights along Rice
Street.
Mr. Tabata: The directional/signal lighting at the
intersections.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. So, this Rice Street Crossing Improvements
is signal lighting.
Mr. Tabata: Signalization improvements, yes. So, now they are
using all those visual versus putting those...what sets the signals off is there is a loop in the
ground, so these will replace the ground loops with visual recognition.
Councilmember Yukimura: Like electronic eyes?
Mr. Tabata: Yes. Then the programmable controllers that
operate the signals will be replaced and modernized, and linked together with the DOT main
office in Lihu`e.
Councilmember Yukimura: Thank you. The Salt Pond Wastewater
Improvements, we are tying the Salt Pond Park into the sewer system, right?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: That was on the agenda in the budget, so where
are we now?
Mr. Tabata: We are getting ready to go out for construction
procurement.
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Councilmember Yukimura: And this is construction moneys then?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: So the design is there.
Mr. Tresler: We actually are scheduled to advertise (inaudible)
next month, in April.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. Great. So, for sure to be completed in this
coming fiscal year?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, but funding pending. We are not sure how
these bids actually come out until they do come out.
Councilmember Yukimura: True. I have a question on Wa'a Road Drainage
Study. Is Wa'a the road right here?
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: What is the status of that? That is the road that
goes down here from the service station and subject to a lot of flooding in the homes, I think.
Mr. Tresler: We are doing in-house work on the drainage and
hydraulic analysis on design. We are also working with Grove Farm Museum. There is some
back and forth that we are waiting to get their response back.
Councilmember Yukimura: This project has been pending for quite a while, I
think.
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Are we still waiting for Grove Farm Museum?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, we are still waiting for their response.
Stanford is our Project Manager on that.
Councilmember Yukimura: How long do we wait? I think there is a win-win,
right?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, most certainly.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes. How long has this project been on the books
and what is the timeline for completion?
Mr. Tresler: This project has been on the books since FY 2014
or 2015.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, that is about three (3) to four (4) years ago.
What is the timetable for completion then?
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Mr. Tabata: We need to get back to you. My notes says that we
are waiting on Grove Farm Museum and their initiation of their project because we need to
do this concurrently with them.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Mr. Tabata: I believe that project is tied to the rail.
Mr. Tresler: Train track.
Councilmember Yukimura: Can we find out their timetable?
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: They are a train. Not the rail.
Mr. Tabata: I am sorry. The train.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Not the rail.
Councilmember Yukimura: It is our "Kaua`i style" rail, which is great. I see a
Waimea R-1 distribution improvement of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000). That is to be put
together with the one on page 2, which is six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000), it is six
hundred thirty-nine thousand dollars ($639,000) or six hundred thirty thousand dollars
($630,000)?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, this was the design portion and the other one
is the construction funds.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, but that money presumably if it is still in
the budget is going to be used for construction or whatever is needed?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. From our standpoint, that is how much
money is budgeted for the project. West Kaua`i Development Plan, I know it is not a"W," but
I want to heads-up, but it also depends on who puts together this...I believe we are calling
them "community plans" now. It just may need to be a re-description of that. That is my
understanding that they are community plans.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any further questions on page 3? If not, we will
move on to page 4. Do we have any questions on the Development Fund?
Councilmember Yukimura: Wailua area bus stop...oh wait.
Mr. Tresler: That is not us.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: That is Transportation.
Councilmember Yukimura: Wailua area moku ahupua a signs. Okay.
Mr. Tresler: That is not us.
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Councilmember Yukimura: I already asked for an update on the Nui Kuapapa
Plan and that is forthcoming. This is related, I believe, related CIP, right? I think both the
area moku ahupua'a sign and the Wailua-Waipouli Historic Program. I hope the update will
cover these two (2) CIP issues.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: If there are no more questions for the
Development Fund, we can move on to the Highway Fund. Any questions for items in the
Highway Fund? Councilmember Yukimura.
Councilmember Yukimura: Hanapepe Moi Road Pedestrian Safety
Improvements, is that something in the present CIP budget, is it not?
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: What is the status?
Mr. Tresler: The status is that it is being designed in-house.
We finally got our survey and that is moving forward. We are final predesign, which was done
in January. Construction design now is on the lower section and we are working on the cross
sections to final that, it is in final review. The upper sidewalk section is being designed
currently, so we had a little lag there and so Devin in our Engineering Division picked it up
and is really moving it forward with Troy's help.
Councilmember Yukimura: Please thank him. The goal for this coming FY, is
this one hundred thirty-five thousand dollars ($135,000) for construction?
Mr. Tresler: That is for construction.
Councilmember Yukimura: It seems low.
Mr. Tresler: It is. That would be highlighted and we may need
additional funding, but we will know that as we get closer once the design is completed.
Councilmember Yukimura: When is the design scheduled to be done?
Mr. Tresler: The design is scheduled to be done by June.
Councilmember Yukimura: We better make sure we have construction money
in there.
Mr. Tresler: Yes. Our thought was we will just wait until we
know we got the design and then we can better estimate the cost of that point, which puts us
in the next FY, and then we can come back with a money bill.
Councilmember Yukimura: Would you not make it something in the budget?
Mr. Tresler: We could.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. Thank you. Excise tax money can be used
for sidewalks. Kapahi Bridge Replacement.
Mr. Tresler: That is done.
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Councilmember Yukimura: Done?
Mr. Tresler: Yes. We completed that project. There is wrap up.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, that is all.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Okay. If that is it for the Highway Fund, we will
move on to Sewer Trust Fund.
Mr. Tresler: Nothing there.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Nothing. General Fund.
Councilmember Yukimura: The Sewer Trust Fund can only be used for
sewers, right?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Where did that five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000) go?
Mr. Tresler: That was a housekeeping measure.
Councilmember Yukimura: Housekeeping?
Mr. Tresler: Yes, that was...
Mr. Tabata: Remember I mentioned that we had to have
money in place while we got the SRF loan, we got the SRF, so we (inaudible).
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, but if you had money in place, that means
you had the money somewhere.
Mr. Tabata: Well, we had unencumbered Sewer Fund last
year. We came to Council to do the money bill to place money and so this is just a reversal of
what we did.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: It was probably a couple months ago, we moved
the money from the Operating Budget to the CIP and once they got the fund, they ended up
moving it back.
Councilmember Yukimura: That is right. Good strategy.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any questions on the General Fund?
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes. What is this CFD Po`ipu Road Multimodal
Improvements? I know the CFD moneys are earmarked for Po`ipu, right?
Mr. Tabata: Right.
Councilmember Yukimura: So, what is that going to get us?
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Mr. Tabata: This is the matching funds for Po`ipu Road project
that is presently on the STIP.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Mr. Tresler: That is Po`ipu.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, so Po`ipu Road is a big project coming up, so
you are going to brief us on that when we come to it? Okay. But that is the matching money?
Mr. Tresler: Some of it.
Councilmember Yukimura: Habitat Conservation Plan. What is the status?
Mr. Tresler: The County Attorney would probably be best to
answer that.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Yes, we can make a note for the County Attorney.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Councilmember Yukimura asks that question
every year on the update of that status, but we will make sure to note it on the County
Attorney's presentation.
Mr. Tabata: I believe this is tied to our endangered species.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, it is. I am not the only one. I think the Chair
has asked a lot, too.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Probably.
Mr. Tabata: We came off of our, what do you call that, we were
placed on some type of probation. Yes, we came off of probation and so now moving forward,
I believe we continue to negotiate a settlement.
Councilmember Yukimura: We are supposed to have a plan that we can see
that has...
Mr. Tabata: Yes, and there is differing...because I was part of
working with the Attorneys and Fish and Wildlife, there is many differing opinions. I do not
know what needs to be included in the plan and how much they will cost.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, well, a plan is supposed to...this has been
on the books for at least five (5) years, maybe longer.
Mr. Tabata: We can get an update on this.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, good, thank you. Host Community
Benefits. Looks like a three hundred percent (300%) increase. I think that is because their
tonnage is going to be increasing. What is the story behind that?
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Mr. Tabata: We need to get back to you.
Councilmember Yukimura: Please do.
Mr. Tresler: Yes, with the new calculations...
Councilmember Yukimura: Is the per ton rate going up?
Mr. Tresler: No, not to my knowledge here. It is two dollars
thirty-eight cents ($2.38) per ton.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, so must be the tonnage is going up.
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Can you come back and give us a report? Kapa'a
Neighborhood Center Improvements, that has been on for a while. What is the status of that?
Mr. Tresler: The tonnage on Kekaha is like an annual thing,
right. The moneys there is based on the 2017 tonnage that we need to now pay into the fund.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay. Is that just the annual tonnage?
Mr. Tresler: Right. It is eighty-six thousand eight hundred
sixty-nine dollars ($86,869).
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: That equals the two hundred six thousand seven
hundred ninety-six dollars ($206,796) to it.
Councilmember Yukimura: I see that, okay. Kapa'a Neighborhood Center
Improvements.
Mr. Tabata: That project, as I mentioned earlier, is a Parks
project.
Councilmember Yukimura: Oh, it is Parks. It says, "W' though. Is that
because of the transfer?
Mr. Tabata: It might be remaining funds and that should be
zeroed out.
Councilmember Yukimura: Is that a question for Parks?
Mr. Tabata: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, we will ask them. Give them a heads-up
what we are asking. The comfort station roof Kapahi, Bryan Baptiste...
Mr. Tresler: That is an "R," which is Parks.
Councilmember Yukimura: Sorry. Okay. Lihu`e Sewage Treatment, what is
the eighty-thousand dollars ($80,000)?
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Mr. Tabata: That is the unencumbered balance. That is Sewer
Fund...oh, I guess we did use General Fund.
Mr. Tresler: I think this is like phase 2. There was a phase 1
that is almost closing out and then phase 2 will follow was to address high priority items for
the plant to treat and design flow. That project is ongoing. That is why it is left there.
Councilmember Yukimura: I just want to know what phase 2 is. What are we
going to get for eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) and is it enough for what they are planning
to do? Can you folks just come back to us with that?
Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Thank you.
Mr. Tabata: This is construction funds, phase 2.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Mr. Tabata: It was awarded in 2016, so this is just the
remaining balance.
Councilmember Yukimura: Is phase 2 complete?
Mr. Tabata: According to my records, yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Can you confirm that?
Mr. Tabata: It looks like we have an issue here because the
notes do not match up. Can you look at line 149.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Okay. We will wait for you to get back to us.
Mr. Tabata: We have to get back to you.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any other questions on page 4? If not, we will
move on to page 5. We are still on General Fund items.
Councilmember Yukimura: I have a question on Police Evidence Building.
What is the status on the Police Evidence Building?
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Let me know if that is a question for you to answer
or a Police question.
Mr. Tabata: That is a question for Doug.
Mr. Haigh: Doug, with Public Works. I am proud to say we
are done and it came out really nice.
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Councilmember Yukimura: Congratulations.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: So, this money should be moved?
Mr. Haigh: Is it about five thousand dollars ($5,000)?
Councilmember Yukimura: It is one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
Mr. Haigh: Unless they are planning something else, we
completed the Police Evidence mezzanine structure for them. I do not know if they are
funding something else for that building.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, that was a really good project. A very
innovative way to increase their space. We commend them and you folks for it, but it is a
question, there is one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for expenditure in the next FY,
what is that all about?
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: That might be a Police question.
Mr. Tresler: I will follow-up.
Councilmember Yukimura: How does something get into this budget without
somebody knowing about it?
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Maybe Police.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, but they do not just put it in the budget,
right? Okay.
Mr. Tresler: That is a new...
Councilmember Yukimura: Same thing with K-PAL. That was supposed to be
forfeiture fund moneys. How come it is now General Fund moneys?
Mr. Tresler: That project received a PAD. I think it is a new
project. I think it is for additional evidence warehouse space for their vehicles.
Councilmember Yukimura: We need some documentation.
Mr. Tresler: Right. We have that and I will confirm with KPD
on that.
Councilmember Yukimura: Can you give us a description of what is being
proposed and whether the money is for design or construction and what their timetable is?
Mr. Tresler: Evidence Warehouse Metal Building. The
purpose of the metal building is for additional evidence warehouse space that would secure
vehicles and other large pieces or amounts of evidence. The scope of the work is to design,
purchase materials and metal building for the use of additional storage of large evidence
items. Currently when they have these vehicles that are in evidence, because it is combined
with other evidence, they need to call a certain person to unlock the gates and the doors.
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Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, they were before us with this. That sounds
familiar.
Mr. Tresler: Yes. They want to separate cars from the rest of
the evidence, so that if they have a late tow-in, late-night, that they do not have to call that
specific evidence purpose because there is a chain of custody issue in that, and besides them
needing more space for the vehicles; storage.
Councilmember Yukimura: That all makes sense, but I am getting mixed up,
because I thought some of these were forfeiture moneys. When they are forfeiture moneys,
do they turn into General Fund moneys at some point? I thought the K-PAL building was
mainly for forfeiture fund moneys. So we need somebody to solve the mystery for us, okay?
Can you figure it out and come back?
Mr. Tresler: So your question is whether or not this is from the
asset forfeiture funds?
Councilmember Yukimura: Or it could have been an appropriation bill? So
just let us know. The project sounds familiar, but they come forward and they justify the
forfeiture expenditure, too. My memory could come from a forfeiture fund presentation. I do
not remember. Whoever put this budget together should know.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: That will probably be a question for Police. I seem
to remember Police coming in for additional storage, evidence storage, but I really cannot put
my finger on it. I believe that is probably this money and then the two hundred thirty
thousand dollars ($230,000) for the K-PAL building is a good question and maybe on
Thursday, when Police comes in, or you folks come back, you can say whether it might just
be a process where you take the money from the criminal forfeiture fund and you move it into
the General Fund whether it is ready to be spent.
Mr. Tresler: K-PAL was funded from the General Fund.
Councilmember Yukimura: That police evidence?
Mr. Tresler: I will confirm that.
Councilmember Yukimura: Yes, please confirm that.
Mr. Tresler: The training building, K-PAL, that also. I do not
believe that was asset forfeiture.
Councilmember Yukimura: I am pretty sure it was.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Yes, we can check and come back to it.
Councilmember Yukimura: Because I think I approved it because we cannot
use forfeiture money for other things and I thought that is a good use. My memory could be
faulty. I think the police evidence building is that there were two (2)police evidence buildings
projects, and you have one (1) line item for it. So one is completed and the other is in process
and there is no distinction showing us that. That is why we are confused. If you find us
appropriations ordinance that we passed.
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Mr. Tresler: Yes.
Councilmember Yukimura: Thanks.And the descriptions,you know, there are
two (2) the mezzanine is one description. Auto storage is another description. I do remember
both. Thank you. And this new pre-development impact fees, what is that? Whose kuleana
is that? Do we know who to ask the question to?
Mr. Tabata: I am sorry, what line?
Mr. Tresler: The Pre-development impact fee.
Councilmember Yukimura: Two (2) lines below the police training building.
Mr. Tresler: This is the pre-development impact fee. Oh, that
is Housing. That is related to their project.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay, that is helpful.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: We will ask that question of the Housing Agency.
Councilmember Yukimura: Kapa`a Pool Renovations—that is an old item. It
was on last budget, right?
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Waimea?
Councilmember Yukimura What did I say, Kapa`a?
Mr. Tresler: You said Kapa`a.
Councilmember Yukimura: Waimea Pool Renovations. Yes, we all know that
that is justified.
Mr. Tresler: That is the funding through the bond float.
Councilmember Yukimura: No, it is General Fund.
Mr. Tresler: Oh, I am sorry. That was part of the recent money
bill, right?
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: It is for Parks.
Councilmember Yukimura: Oh, okay. It is confusing when it has a "W" on it.
Mr. Tresler: It says "R" on that one.
Councilmember Yukimura: Excuse me, then, it is my fault.
Mr. Tresler: Those two (2) are added with the money bill.
Councilmember Yukimura: Okay.
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Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Any other questions on the General Fund? If not,
we will move on.
Mr. Tresler: The rest is Parks.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: A lot of these all look like Parks projects, the rest
of them.
Mr. Tresler: They are all Parks' projects.
Councilmember Yukimura: Heads-up to Parks then. Parking lot play court
resurfacing at two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000). We just appropriated one
million dollars ($1,000,000) for that kind of thing. I would like to have some reconciliation
between these funds and the fund we just passed. We should use these funds first because
they cannot be used for anything else, whereas the million plus that we removed because we
had enough reserve, if I recall correctly. That is much more flexible money.
Mr. Tresler: All of these are outside of the Department of
Public Works. I think we are completed.
Councilmember Yukimura: You are off the hook.
Mr. Tresler: Off the hook, early.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Yes.
Mr. Tresler: With a lot of follow-up questions.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Yes, there are follow-up questions and I think
there are some questions that the folks that will be coming in on Thursday got a heads-up
on, so if they can come prepared to answer that. I think you folks will work on that
spreadsheet, similar to what we saw last year.
Mr. Tresler: Yes, delete that one. I will clean it up.
Committee Chair Kaneshiro: Similar to what we saw last year. It might answer
a lot of questions on the front-end for us. If there is no other questions, good job, men. We got
through this CIP pretty fast. I think a lot of the newer projects we already saw the
information on it when we did the bond this year. And a lot of older projects we are familiar
with. If there are no other questions from the Members, we are done for today. At this time,
I would like to recess the Departmental Budget Reviews. We will reconvene at 9:00 a.m. on
Thursday, March 29, 2018 and we will hear from the other departments with their CIP
projects. With the exception of the I.T., who will be presenting their CIP projects along with
their Operating Budget. So thank you.
There being no objections, the Committee recessed at 11:02 a.m.