Our county has a affordable rental program that go we a property tax break for second home investors to rent to our local families under an affordable rental agreement. Meaning that you can own a lucrative TVR on Kauai and pay far less in property taxes than even for a resident occupied home on the mainland. Again, this would be investing into our local future workforce & creatives while being able to make money from out of state student enrollment. Encouraging recycling and reuse of construction and demolition waste, which makes up and estimated 24% of landfill waste. I want to thank all of our leaders in our community for the work you have done and keep doing. With population growth now hovering just above zero and only around 100 homes built per year on Kauai, were currently facing an infrastructure crisis. We can move unspent CIP funds to other projects during the budget process and we can ask for status updates at any time and I have done both. Because everything from zoning to property taxes impacts the business community, I send most of my draft legislative work to the Chamber of Commerce for input before finalizing a bill for the agenda. I was a business computer programmer for the last 27 years and I had to work more efficiently all the time. Its important to note that this will require coordination with our state and federal representatives, and Im happy to work with our legislative team and do the work necessary to secure these funds for Kauai. We need to site a new landfill and move on it as soon as possible. We have successfully reduced all our major events from delivering hundreds of pounds of waste to our landfill. We are clearly over capacity for tourism and our General Plan contains bold language on the need to keep visitor arrivals at reasonable levels. The County General Plan recognizes that agriculture is an important element in Kauais identity as a rural place, and it represents our greatest opportunity for economic diversification and food self-sufficiency. Along with the Mayor and our Office of Economic Development, our Council needs to support the vision of our thriving agricultural sector on Kaua`i by. Strengthen the economic contribution of Kauais visitor industry. A thriving agriculture sector includes small diversified farms, neighborhood food production, livestock, loi kalo, and export crops in which Kauai continues to be the Garden Island. This is relatively close to DMAP policy A.2, the Universal Fee Model. Click here and log in to view this story Start Free. My commitment is to passionately advocating for our people and for our islands; using my experience and dedication to work on protecting and improving the quality of life for all our residents. YouTube The nurturing of small-scale farms, promoting crop diversity, and encouraging stronger public/private partnerships is very important for agriculture. She had 1,176 votes less than Kagawa. Less than 1% of Swedens trash is sent to landfills, and over 50% of Swedish household waste is converted into energy to heat their homes. not just property tax breaks, but significant state tax breaks. Serving Kauai these last four years has been the greatest honor of my life and I am incredibly grateful to the voters for giving me this opportunity. We also must tackle the needed infrastructure upgrades to accommodate these additional units and developments. Rice Camp Senior Housing, Lihue, Kauai. Spending money allocated to Kauai otherwise other islands will take our portion and Kauai will lose out. Making sure all communities from Kekaha to Haena including Niihau is treated fairly and equitable in receiving funding towards projects. I would suggest imposing a tax automatically on anyone purchasing homes and property from out of state. Supporting efforts to expand local food production agriculture can reverse our 90% importation of food, but it must be a collaborative effort between all levels of government, community members, educators, nonprofits, farmers and consumers. We are currently doing some of this work through Tasting Kauai, a food tour company. I was the spokes person for Honolulu Recovery systems/ Honolulu Disposals Recycling program, and have lived in a country where relying is something you just do everyday. I have personally seen the effects of doing this. Expanding our local products and supporting their local consumption, as well as export markets, is key to growth for the agricultural sector. I would continue to put pressure on County, State, and Federal Governments to continue fixing our highways and bridges and infrastructure. I am currently the Chair of Public Works, which is the largest division and handles all CIP assignments. Lastly, we need to modify the agricultural dedication process, especially for small farms, to ensure that bonafide farmers are paying minimal taxes and that wealthy land owners arent using the system simply as a tax haven. We absolutely need to do all that we can collectively to address our housing shortage disaster! We absolutely must focus on maximizing waste diversion to address our landfill problem. Please check out my website at www.lukeevslin.com to see a full list of policies that Ive worked on and a list of proposed policies for the future. The various departments have done a rather impressive job at successfully procuring Federal monies. I understand we have the lowest property tax rates in Hawaii, and the entire nation. In that same Tax Review commission memo, the chair of the commission writes that Adjusting RPT rates to capture more revenue from high-value houses and non-resident owners can produce tens of millions more dollars per year that counties can use for growing needs. Raising the vacation rental rate by $1 to equal the resort rate will raise $4.5M which can be used for much needed affordable housing projects in Waimea, Lima Ola, Kilauea, and elsewhere. In council, I do my best to offer these perspectives of balance in our conversations that most often do not make it into the articles of the reporters. Support good ideas from the county level that makes logical sense. Climate change is quite possibly the biggest threat we will be facing for the unforeseeable future. On our own, the County cant solve all of these issues (as some issues like water infrastructure require state funding and regulatory support), but there are two realms where the County plays a vital role: zoning and property taxes. 3) We need to continually strive to make it easier for families to add on additional units (ARUs or ADUs) for their parents, children or long-term renters. To be clear, I am absolutely a strong supporter of recycling, the critical siting of our next landfill, source reduction and taking advantage of any innovations or new technologies that can help us find a sustainable and resilient way to address our solid waste challenges. An Incinerator is needed in Kekaha. . We could be doing so much more for our island. HONOLULU - United States District Judge Derrick K. Watson sentenced Arthur Brun, age 50, a former member of the Kauai County Council, yesterday to serve 20 years in federal prison for drug trafficking, assault of a federal law enforcement officer, witness tampering, evidence tampering, and firearm offenses. But some do like longtime Kauai politician Ross Kagawa, who has been chosen to fill a vacancy on the Kauai County Council. And, were currently working on even more improvements. Instead it may drive away enduring ownership of committed part-time residents who have deep ties to the community, often being a valuable resource. We have an opportunity to diversify into growing more of our own food within the farming and ranching Department. Covid policies interrupted the regular attendance from strategic members of these organizations. The tax collected could become discounts available for local families. We have so much to be thankful for and it is our responsibility as leaders in our island community to take care of our people, and our natural resources and to provide every opportunity for our families to live, work and to enjoy life. While I agree with the DMAP that the fee system should be universal and apply to both county and state parks in a simple to use smart phone app, for that to occur requires leadership from the State. And a primary barrier for many businesses right now is attracting and retaining employees which stems at least partially from the high cost of housing. However, I have also been interested in bringing parity to the existing tax rate structure by increasing the rate of Transient Vacation Rentals to the same level as Resorts. We need to take a look at what other countries are doing around the world and bring a new system back here. I am a neighborhood food producer at my home in Kilauea and a host of talk radio on KKCR. As for steps Id take, I will.. work to ensure that our land use, capital improvements and all our programming considers our statewide and county plans and policies addressing climate change and sea level rise continue supporting Housing & Planning bills that increase housing and livability in our town cores so people can live close to jobs, services & recreation and rely less on driving. But, the industry has more than recovered. I envision reversing our current status quo to where 80% of our food comes from Kauai rather than imported. voting record of . I believe that the aim of regenerative tourism as outlined in the DMAP, if harnessed properly, can assist with economic diversification and an expansion of eco-tourism, true cultural experiences and more revenue staying on Kauai. Reduce, reuse, recycle is a key component. This middle-income housing shortage has festered for decades on Kauai but has escalated into a crisis with rapid inflation and a strong market demand from the pandemic-driven migrations to rural areas across the nation. Action items D, focus policies that address over-tourism by managing people while on Kauai and E, encourage low-impact green rides to improve the visitor experience, reduce island traffic, increase small business opportunities, and meet climate action goalsare among the more motivating for me. I would look at what jobs are critical to the operation and safety of the island as top priority and then start moving money and making cuts that allow room for change to be made and new projects to be implemented. Please explain your answer. Traffic, poor maintenance of public infrastructure, and abuse of natural resources are just a few consequences of overtourism. E-mail: mchock@kauai.gov Council Direct Line: (808) 241-4098 Cell Phone: (808) 651-7013 My upbringing in a local family of fishermen, gardeners, gatherers, & hunters taught me the value of our `aina for our survival; for food sustainability & security. We are maxed out with tourists and vehicles as it is, what we do need is a safe, fluid and comfortable airport. In addition, I will work with our county administration, state and federal representatives, to execute a comprehensive plan in a timely manner to establish a new trash storage system. Our County Planners are gathering critical public input in order to draft our first Kauai Climate Change Adaptation Plan which will guide development, natural resource protection and community resilience in the face of climate change-related impacts. In college I took courses in climate science and learned about climate adaptation and mitigation. In my first four budget sessions, managing the county budget has been relatively comfortable working with the mayors office as they have presented a balanced budget with excess to return to our county reserve fund. In a memo to the Hawaii Tax Review Commission, the Commission Chair Beth Giesting writes that: Hawaiis low RPT rates result in low annual expenses, and that also makes local real estate a relative bargain for investors and affluent second home purchasersto the extent that units are purchased for vacation rentals or second homes, there is less housing available for people who live here., #3 If youre taking a home off the housing market, then you should help with the construction of an affordable home. However, its partly our job to help set the Administration up for success on this front. Transient Vacation Units have more acute impacts on the neighborhoods in the surrounding areas on the quality of life and potential availability of housing. Applying most of this additional $49 M was expressed in the Capital Improvement Projects area of the budget to resist raising the yearly operating expenses. A 41-year-old Kauai man who agreed to run drugs and collect money for a drug trafficking organization headed by a former Kauai County Council member and supplied by Samoan gang members, was . Again, whats most important to me here as well, is to learn from our partners like the Chamber, Kaua`i Visitors Bureau, the Hawai`i Lodging & Tourism Association (HLTA) and all the many stakeholders in our tourism economy who are working on diversifying our economy and rebuilding a new Regenerative Tourism industry, taking the best ideas from the collective and doing what I can to support moving them forward. August 13, 2022 (Primary) Kauai. I know they paid their shade of taxes during COVID when none of them had any revenue coming in, but I would like to ensure those local families who had their family vacation rentals not get priced out. Click here. There is a maze of changing regulations that are best served by following a quick timeline to avoid the next limitation. While its not yet clear how those funds will be distributed to the counties, we can help set up incentives and possibly mandates for EV charging infrastructure to ensure that we can hit the ground running to maximize the amount of funding we receive. I would use my management skills from working for Central Parking in Managing parking for Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center, Halekulani Hotel, and Hawaii Prince Hotel managing 19 employees and a 2.5 million dollar budget. If we could agree that the long-term goal is sustainability then we would need to work backwards to see how we can begin making moves in the short term to move us in that direction. I will work hard to make public workers accountable to deadlines. I would prioritize projects and tackle projects one at a time. These products can be made a certified community kitchens in partnership with our local slaughter houses. In addition to agriculture, I will investigate ways to support small businesses and work with local business associations to address their needs where able. Ross Kagawa. We need policies that limit these large developments until there is a solution planned for our landfill. I believe in accountability and transparency. If elected, I would be proactive in working with our business organizations by having monthly meetings with government action committees. As a Financial Advisor it is important to work as a team, and we need to work as a team to find the best plan and be prepared for profit and loss both in short term and long term goals that everyone agrees on. Making sure our County Planners engage with Dept. Another important goal is to develop plans and continue to build capacity for economic development of the six target industry clusters with strategies of 1) increase collaboration, 2) support economic innovation and digitization for all businesses, 3) develop infrastructure; and, 4) support the development of new businesses and markets for a diversity of products derived from agricultural and technological activity. A thriving agricultural sector is critical for our food security, for our economy and ultimately for our survival. Updating our Ag Dedication criteria will before council this week. I support the development of a dirty MRF that will help us divert waste from the landfill. Aside from the simple math of an aging demographic, we also are facing an infrastructure crisis. The. I also helped spearhead sending a Council charter amendment proposal to the voters to approve dedicating 2% (est. Growing more food locally and less reliance on ag imports. L EGISLATIVE B RANCH 4396 Rice Street, Suite 209 . The entire budget process needs to be as transparent as possible and communicated in a simple and up to date way to the public. Making sure our County works closely with the Dept. As part of the Kauai Food Hub, and hosting the Ai Pono Eat Local Challenge these last few years, I have had an opportunity to better understand the issues that are holding up expanding local food production on Kauai. Mahalo for taking the time to send out this questionnaire and Mahalo for all that you do to help Kauai County. We need to improve our port security and get drugs off our streets while we work to address the issue holistically with counseling programs, on island detox and treatment centers and housing first solutions. While we have to blaze forward on solutions to our pressing problems, I remain committed to working with stakeholders to the greatest extent possible before introducing legislation that could impact them. QUESTION #13What else would you like to share with the Kauai community? To that end, the top priorities I plan to focus on are: Rebuilding, Diversifying & Strengthening Our Economy Creating Jobs & Supporting Local Business. Reaching out to both the interest groups who would either benefit by an ordinance change, as well as those who may be negatively impacted is essential to successful implementation well before introduction of a bill at council. of Water Planners updating the County Water Plan to guide system expansion, improvement, rehabilitation, and rate structures that support growth consistent with housing development plans. Kauai County Councilmember Ross Kagawa. We have had four years of additional emergency funding for either our 2018 flood event or the COVID pandemic. We are out of time. This is the first decade since statehood where home construction on Kauai has fallen far below our population growth and its this lack of homes that is the driver of our exploding costs. I absolutely support what the people are calling for and that is a stop to unmanageable expansion that will likely only worsen the overtourism were already face. Weak enforcement of illegal transient accommodations allows for the destruction of residential neighborhoods. 1) We need to build more homes in and around our existing towns. And, every year they come down in price. Here are some examples: We are currently doing some of this work through the Rice Street Business Association with our revitalization of Downtown Lhue. Kauai. I will work with the Department of Public Works, and other departments, to understand the ways that the council can ensure funding and needs are met for planned infrastructure projects to move them forward in a timely manner. For this reason, I am unwilling to raise any Real Property Tax rates in the coming seasons as it is imperative to avoid collapsing our businesses and property owners that are unprotected by a valuation cap. My environmental science background will help with important decision making around environmental issues that will need to happen in coming years. I do not agree with discussions that occur off-line. Unfortunately, the plan does not consider the unintended consequences of increasing flight capacity. Organizations such as KIUC, Surfriders Hawaii, Mlama Hulia, and other local agencies dedicated to mitigating the impacts of climate change. We are on a journey nothing is cyclical. A carrying capacity study needs to be done immediately. Tax rates for the Vacation Rental tax class is currently$9.85 per thousand in value as compared to the Hotel/Resort tax class at $10.85 per thousand in value. To start the county could start with preparing and feeding our soil to give agriculture ventures a boost when they are ready. However, the process to site and build a new one is expected to take just as long or slightly longer than the lifespan of our existing landfill. The council was effectively permitted to select anyone to fill Evslins seat. Of those, 123 converted from residential or homestead use to TVR Thats 123 less homes available on Kauai last year alone and resulted in a net decline overall in the number of resident occupied homes on Kauai. I oppose any increase in flights at this time. We have a finite inventory of lands and we simply cannot rely on landfills for future generations. This is a state-wide effort that has and will defiantly make a difference for us all. Making sure out County keeps us with proper maintenance of our four wastewater treatment plants which were built before 1980 and that we fund the necessary upgrades to our current systems; even if that means increasing sewer fees. I need to be briefed on the current details and studies of the sites being considered now that Kalepa (the previous choice) has been denied. If were collecting too much tax money, then lets lower the tax rates and give the public back money that we dont need, Kagawa said. Working closely with our Federal, State and County delegation and our community to define our responsibility to prepare for this funding is imperative. We are wise to remember that these classes of properties have subsidized Kauais working resident-homeowners for decades. Provide more opportunities to discuss items on the council agenda prior to legislation being proposed. We cant ignore the environmental crisis any longer. That we are talking to our Senators and House Representatives and making them accountable that we receive a piece of the pie that is equitable. Every time I go to these recycling locations I see trash bags and random items in the bins and my gut feeling is that no one is separating this at the main station so therefore it must be going to the landfill. Kauai County Council. The following came from KipuKai Kualii, candidate for Kauai County Council. The absence of the general public and business adding dimension to policy considerations can easily result in reckless policy development. I would oppose increasing the rental car stacked garage facility. The best way to provide economic diversification would be to develop some sectors by itself and provide the enabling environment so that others can participate. of Water Planners updating the County Water Plan to guide system expansion, improvement, rehabilitation, and rate structures that support growth consistent with housing development plans; and, Making sure our County encourages, steers and incentivizes residential developments in Lihu`e in order to take advantage of that treatment plants significant excess capacity. I have over thirty years experience working and volunteering in Government, Labor Unions, Non-Profits and Community Organizations. If we are both re-elected, I believe its very likely that Councilmember Evslin & I will bring the matter up for a vote again; especially if we the voters endorse dedicating 2% of our real property taxes each year to our Housing Development Fund by charter vote this fall. The 2016-2018 Kauai Tourism Strategic Plan (KTSP) was unique among government sponsored reports in its clear-headed recognition that we are over capacity for tourism, that we need bold change, and that we should strive to keep our visitor count within 23,000-25,000. As a member of the county council Ill work with our community organizations and administration to introduce several bills regarding environmental protection and stewardship. Supporting and growing our Kaua`i Made and Kaua`i Grown programs. The Lihue Town Core Special Planning Area has been zoned to have up to 80 units/acre to incentivize private development in this area in proximity to many jobs. February 27, 2023 equitable estoppel california No Comments . For many, the barrier to converting to an EV is access to charging stations. This sets up a more regenerative visitor economy. The budget is our main responsibility and balancing and or cutting the budget to ensure all areas of our counties responsibilities are met. We fell two votes short. I see this as a way the wealthiest residents can give back and help assist those that are struggling with housing and being displaced. In 2002/2010 he represented Kauai and Niihau in the Hawaii State Senate (2002/2010) where he served as Majority Leader. Bold action must be taken to better manage tourism to protect the environment and residents quality of life. The plan states that 1 in 8 homes on Kauai is a vacation rental, compared to 1 in 24 homes statewide. We could design and implement a MURF but securing that funding will take creativity and collaboration with other funding sources. euclid city council election results. I have been an advocate for social and environmental justice my entire life. I will continue to support projects like the Lima Ola affordable housing project and support the development of additional family units and rentals on existing properties to accommodate growing families and additional rentals. Lastly, we need to divert food waste from our landfill to composting facilities. I would love to partner with the Kauai Chamber for a point-source reduction challenge among businesses to reduce pressure on our landfill. If elected, my first priority is to help our council be part of the solution. As Housing & Intergovernmental Relations Committee Chair, I have absolutely been interested in creating additional funding for our Housing Development Fund. The focus will be on efficiency and accountability, so that any new system that is created doesnt cost our community more than it should. 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