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 KIHEI, Maui – The public is invited to participate in a series of events for South Maui’s Vision Zero Week on February 12...
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A Board with County, State and Federal Representatives for Maui Transportation Planning 6/26/20 #kihei The Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) was established over four years ago with an initial meeting on May 4, 2016, and yes, the Kihei Community Association was there. The board was composed of three County Council members, three county administration directors and a state Director of...
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This morning’s meeting had a new tenor 5/24/18 #kihei This morning we participated at the Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization’s (MPO) Planning Board meeting at 9:00 AM. It has been several months since we were last able, going back to the fall of 2017. We participated in the initial meeting just over two years ago...
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South Maui better vote at MPO for our needs or we can be forgotten. February 23 is the cut-off. Click here for the survey and complete. 2/8/18 #kihei KCA was on the scene at 6:00 PM this evening at the Community Center when the Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) offered a survey for the community’s input on island-wide proposed projects over the next four years. The...
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6/22/17 #kihei This morning we submitted testimony to the Maui Metropolitan Policy Organization (MPO) board on two items, both of which focused on the West side. Huh? Well the agenda identified them as West Maui, but our intent was to relate them both to the South side. Item IV, d. addressed the first meeting of the West Maui Transportation Working Group, as we posed that we need a comparable...
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5-21-17 #kihei As the Maui Metropolitan Policy Organization (MPO) enters its second year this morning (it started 5/4/16), we have attended the majority of the meetings and observed plans and then modified plans, as can be expected. Bylaws have been established and then amended. With three of the seven board members being elected officials (County Council Members), election results...
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OK, testifies, but that spoiled the alliteration. #kihei 3/13/17 For the first time this year, we returned to the Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) board meeting this morning. For those new to the concept: the MPO will assign resources for transportation independent of if a road is state-owned or county-owned. With a disappointing response from a board member when we last testified...
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#kihei 1/31/17 Last evening your Community Association gathered with several other similar organizations at the first 2017 Alliance of Maul Community Associations (Alliance) monthly meeting in Spreckelsville. Additionally two of our newly elected Council members, our Kelly King and Yuki Lei Sugimura were attending to hear Planner Jen Maydan present to the group, while joined by the...
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Imagine an effort of County, State and Federal government entities all working together on the same project. A recipe for gridlock? Not if the initial meeting of Maui MPO Policy Board Meeting was any indication. Yes, there are lots of acronyms involved, but a smooth running meeting led by Board Chair David Goode, adding a new hat to his DPW Director’s cap, kicked off the formation of...
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Community meeting Tuesday evening, 1/19/2021 Our next Kihei Community Association (KCA) virtual general membership meeting commences at 6:30 pm. The meeting will concentrate on the State Land Use Commission (LUC), which is composed of nine appointed statewide volunteers who make legally binding decisions concerning, as the name indicates, what type of development can occur on...
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6/12/18 #kihei. At 1:00 PM this afternoon five invited concerned community members (including KCA) were welcomed by Jennifer Wieland, Principal of Nelson Nygaard of Seattle, WA, http://nelsonnygaard.com/ apparently contracted by Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the hele mai maui long range transportation...
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UPDATE 10/20/17 MEETING THIS MORNING: THE TOPIC WAS REFERRED TO COMMITTEE Stay tuned 10/15/17 #kihei Most people on Maui seem to agree that we need better transportation infrastructure. When looking at motor vehicle transportation, who does not see the challenge getting over the Pali to the westside? If you head to the North shore, the chokepoint at Paia grows worse each year. In our...
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12/19/16. #kihei Having attended most of these meetings from the first one back on May 4, SEE https://gokihei.org/alternative-transportation/maui-metro-planning-org-maui-mpo-meeting we are still unclear what to expect. Is this something that could really rejuvenate transportation needs on Maui Island? The prior meeting seemed to be cobbled together by chair David Goode scrambling to quickly...
Read More9/21/16 Nearly five months since the new Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) inaugural policy board meeting, their Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has announced their first meeting this Monday (9/26/16) at 10 AM Seemingly an organizational one to establish leadership, rules, tasks and feature topics under direction of the new MPO Executive Director Lauren Armstrong, it brings together...
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UPDATE 9/20/16 **While we always encourage using our comments feature for your input so everyone can share in further discussion, some guys just rather call us, which is OK. So yes in spite what was implied in a Maui News article published this morning supposedly relaying information from Don Couch, HDOT Ford Fuchigami was not at this meeting, and neither was Mr Couch. They are both board...
Read MoreIs vital too strong a word to describe the need of adequate rainfall for existance on Maui? Probably the single individual who can best advise our county of history and potential future of our real rainfall is UH Manoa Professor, Dr Tom Giambelluca, creator of the rainfall atlas who will offer a presentation next Monday (7/16/12) Presented by the Sustainable Living Institute of Maui, Maui...
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3/28/2024 #kihei #budget Message from South Maui Council Member Tom Cook: “I look forward to welcoming my Maui County Council colleagues to my home district of South Maui. My goal is to ensure that the needs and concerns impacting South Maui residents are heard and adequately reflected in this year’s Council adopted budget. Bring your friends, family, and neighbors and help us...
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2/17/2024 #kihei #tomcook #townhall From Maui Now: Council Member Thomas Cook announced today that he will be hosting a South Maui community town hall at 6 p.m. on Feb. 29 at the Maui Economic Development Board’s Malcolm Center. Cook said the meeting is a collaboration with county departments and other agencies to provide South Maui residents with updates on several policy objectives....
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UPDATE 9/28/23 THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY HYBRID MEETINGS ARE BACK! The next meetings 10/4 and 10/11 will have remote participation! 9/22/2023 #kihei #smcp #cpac #communityplan The South Maui Community Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC) decided at its September 20 meeting to not meet again until the Planning Department reinstates the ability for residents to participate in...
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02-26-23 #Kihei KCA is back LIVE AND IN-PERSON for the next community meeting March 21, 2023, beginning 6:30 pm at St. Theresa’s on the corner of S. Kihei Road and Lipoa. Please come a little early so you can check your membership status and either renew or join if you are not yet a member. Our discounted annual membership rate of $15 is still honored for standard family memberships....
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