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Pacific Disaster Center’s Dr. Erin Hughey guest speaker at KCA community meeting May 21 @ 6:30pm

4/23/2024 #kihei #publicmeeting #pdc #maui Join Kihei Community Association for our community meeting at ProArts Playhouse on Tuesday, May 21 at 6:30pm as we welcome Dr. Erin Hughey, Director of Global Operations of the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), who will ‘talk story’ with our members of the Kihei community on building community resilience. She will highlight the important role that Maui plays in supporting Global Early Warning. Erin will also discuss PDC’s role in response to the Maui...

Do you know what the heck this new empty building is up mauka of the Highway on Lipoa???

4/13/24  #kihei Regency Maui Nursing and Rehabilitation Center or “Maui Memory Care”    For about a decade we have been asking, and numerous guys have been asking us,  what is up in the Research & Technology (R & T) Park at this facility which now seemingly has completed construction. Do you know? Have information? You can see some history here in this KCA post from August of 2017, which also  refers to a prior one 2013:...

Civil Beat Popup Newsroom at Kihei Library April 19, 2024

  UPDATE 4/17/24  Looks like we may be getting the A Team  in Kihei this Friday This will be your chance to meet reporters and editors from our team, ask questions about our journalism and suggest new story ideas for Civil Beat. The staff planning to attend include Editor Patti Epler, politics editor Chad Blair, Maui editor Nathan Eagle and editor-at-large Naka Nathaniel. 4/14/2024 #kihei #civilbeat Not a KCA event, but a local opportunity to share your ideas with our main (or...

What do you know about the Pacific Disaster Center?

4/7/24 #kihei #pacificdisastercenter Were you aware that this world wide operation is based right here is central Kihei?  Winner of the 2022 United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction, the University of Hawai’i’s Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) is a global leader in the application of life-saving disaster management science, early warning technology, and advanced analytics. At KCA we last heard from PDC over a decade ago:...
Talk Story on Our Food Systems

Talk Story on Our Food Systems

  2/7/2024 #kihei #community #foodsystems From the Maui County Department of Agriculture: You are formally invited to join the Department of Agriculture's Community Talk Story Sessions to develop the Maui County Food and Nutrition Security Plan. From February...

Cesspool replacement plan for Maui Meadows

Cesspool replacement plan for Maui Meadows

  1/26/2024 #kihei #mauimeadows #cesspool There is now an initiative to speed up the required transition away from cesspools in Maui Meadows for the sake of human and coral reef safety. The proposal involves the creation of a Community Facilities District and...

Maui MPO announces Vision 0 week next month

Maui MPO announces Vision 0 week next month

  1/23/24 #kihei   For immediate release: Jan. 23, 2024   Press release by: Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Pam Eaton, Executive Director mauimpo.org   Transportation safety is a priority for South Maui’s Vision Zero Week in February...

Canceled! No KCA public meeting 1/16/2024!

Canceled! No KCA public meeting 1/16/2024!

  1/16/2024 #kihei #flooding Today's flooding has turned parts of South Kihei Road into a river, impassible by car, foot or bike - and dangerous to attempt usage of. Stay home and safe! KCA will attempt to reschedule the public meeting planned for today to a...

More flooding January 16, 2024

More flooding January 16, 2024

1/16/2024 #kihei #flooding See also the County's pictures and video, including a helicopter rescue from a flooded vehicle in North Kihei. The image above is from that collection, Pictures below courtesy of Tova Callender.

Ch Ch Ch Changes for 2024 officers at KCA

Ch Ch Ch Changes for 2024 officers at KCA

1/13/24 #kihei It has been over two decades since KCA has had a wahine at the helm of the organization, but that drought has ended this year. The Board of Directors voted Charlene Schulenburg as the president for this year.   Returning Treasurer Patricia...

Once again, North Kihei is flooded

Once again, North Kihei is flooded

        1/16/24 This morning,  once again, SKR was closed between NKR and Kulanihako'i due to renewed mud flooding. Kaonoulu was finally open last Saturday after several days of closure at SKR, but closed again  now with the surrounding...

Next Community Meeting

Tuesday, May 21
6:30 pm

ProArts Playhouse, Azeka Makai
1280 S. Kihei Road

Pacific Disaster Center, Kihei

Dr. Erin Hughey, Director of Global Operations

Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global) is an applied research center managed by the University of Hawaii that supports the most demanding governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide in helping to create a safer, more disaster resilient world. For more than 25 years, we’ve helped our partners enhance disaster management capacity, save lives, and reduce disaster losses through the application of our advanced tools and technologies, evidence-based research, and analytical information.

As always, we will be collecting donations for the MAUI FOOD BANK.  They can stretch a dollar like no one else so checks sealed in envelopes are also welcome.

KCA's Priorities 2024

  • Fire prevention
    Working with agencies, landowners, and the community to form a Fire Prevention Task force for South Maui and pass along requests and recommendations between that group and the community
  • Flooding mitigation
    Working with Public Works, upcountry landowners, and flood control experts to reduce the risk of flooding in South Maui
  • North-South Collector Road
    Advocating the completion of the next segments of the North-South Collector Road between Waipuilani and Kaonoulu
  • WasteWater Initiatives
    Supporting efforts to speed the replacement of cesspools in Maui Meadows with clean water alternatives and advocating for identification and treatment of pollution from failing pipes at major hotels and condo developments
  • Healthy Living through Smart Growth
    Supporting efforts to make Kihei a walkable, bike able community with sidewalk and bikeway connectivity throughout, especially to all our schools including the new Kūlanihāko‘i High School. Supporting the implementation of the revised South Maui Community Plan and the values it espouses
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Help KCA help Kihei

KCA relies on your membership dues to accomplish our goals for a smartly planned community. Well-managed traffic, drainage, safe walking and biking routes, community parks and clean ocean water are just a few agenda items.  You can help shape our future by renewing or joining KCA today. Have time and a desire to make a difference? The KCA board seeks new volunteers to help with projects and carry the torch into the future. Please contact KCA to ask how you can be of service to our community.


To see what our future community may look like, check out Dick Mayer’s presentation on the developments planned for South Maui.


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KCA's mission statement

The objects and purposes of the corporation shall be to encourage, promote and aid in developing, improving and maintaining the area of Kihei, Island and County of Maui, as a desirable residential community; to develop unified community spirit; to do any and all things to promote the health, safety and welfare of residents within the Kihei area; to encourage recreation and service programs, and programs to enhance social life and community welfare within the Kihei area; to promote better understanding and fellowship among its members, their families and all residents of the Kihei area.


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