Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Board January Agenda

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Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Board January Agenda
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With Permission / Courtesy of: City and County of Honolulu Neighborhood Commission Office

REGULAR MEETING AGENDA
THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2020
HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
1 ALOHA TOWER DRIVE
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM 3
6:00 PM

Please know that requisite precautions to mitigate disease transmission during the meeting will be enforced by the sergeant at arms. If you are not comfortable attending the meeting in person, the Neighborhood Commission website accepts written testimony readily, as described in the boxed information at the foot of this agenda.
To maintain meeting efficiency, persons within the gallery wishing to speak aloud regarding items on the agenda below must make all reasonable efforts to queue with appropriate distancing near the guest microphone before the prior speaker has completed his or her presentation or statements. Alternative means of submitting questions without approaching the microphone are available; please be mindful of advisements about such by the Chair.
When recognized by the Chair, advance from the queue, approach the microphone while following distancing precautions, and avoid touching or adjusting the microphone. Kindly address your comments to the Chair; speakers are afforded up to two minutes (inclusive of approach to the microphone, a statement or question, and receipt of any response to same) on any agenda item unless otherwise di-rected by the Chair.
The meeting may be recorded for viewing on lelo. To ensure that all verbal comments remain audible, please speak towards the des-ignated microphone to enable your message to be heard during rebroadcasts of the meeting.
To permit sufficient time for questions, those giving reports are urged to keep their presentations under three minutes unless otherwise advised. Board Members shall adhere to speaking limits per Board protocol. Please silence all electronic devices while within the meet-ing venue.
Limited partial parking validation may be available; please confer with the Neighborhood Board Assistant at the meeting.
I. CALL TO ORDER
II. INTRODUCTION OF BOARD MEMBERS
III. MEMBERSHIP VACANCY APPOINTMENTS AS PER NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN ��2-13-108(e), 2-14-106(g), AND 2-14-104
IV. PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTS (five minutes each)
A. Honolulu Fire Department
B. Neighborhood Citizen Patrol
V. ELECTED OFFICIALS (five minutes each)
A. Governor's Representative - Damien Elefante [damien.a.elefante@hawaii.gov]
B. Mayor's Representative
C. City Council (District 6) - Carol Fukunaga [cafukunaga@honolulu.gov]
D. State Senate (District 13) - Karl Rhoads [senrhoads@capitol.hawaii.gov]
E. State House (District 26) - Scott Saiki [repsaiki@capitol.hawaii.gov]
F. State House (District 29) - Daniel Holt [repholt@capitol.hawaii.gov]
VI. PUBLIC CONCERNS (10 minutes; two minutes for each speaker for issues not on the agenda)
VII. NEW BUSINESS
A. Rebooting homelessness solutions in downtown and Chinatown. Connie Mitchell (Executive Director) and Justin Philips (Homeless Outreach Field Manager), Institute for Human Services, Inc. [IHS] (15 minutes)
B. Successes in homelessness and housing forum [placeholder]. Invitees prior to deadline include Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance, CARE Hawaii, Family Promise of Hawaii, H4, Kahumana, Kumuhonua Transi-tional Living Center, Revive + Refresh, Salvation Army, and Shelter of Wisdom (20 minutes)
VIII. COMMUNITY GROUP REPORTS (five minutes each)
A. Safe Haven [gpayton@mhkhawaii.org]
B. Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) [shamamoto1@honolulu.gov]
IX. MEETING MINUTES
A. Minutes of 3 December 2020
X. BOARD BUSINESS AND REPORTS
A. Chair's report
B. Treasurer's report
C. Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization (OahuMPO) Citizen Advisory Committee
D. Board members' concerns
E. Election of Board Secretary
F. Future agenda items
XI. ANNOUNCEMENTS
A. The next regular meeting of the Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Board 13 is scheduled for Thursday 4 February 2021 at Hawaii Pacific University, 1 Aloha Tower Drive, Multi-Purpose Room 3 at 6:00 pm.
B. The Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Citizen Patrol departs each Tuesday evening at 8:00 pm from the Diamond Head Tower lobby of Kukui Plaza. Please wear a mask, bring a friend, join the patrol, and help identify areas of concern within our Downtown-Chinatown community.
C. lelo - Rebroadcasts of Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Board 13 meetings are scheduled on lelo channel 49 for every third Thursday at 9:00 pm, as well as 6:00 am on the second and fourth Satur-days of each month. An archive of past meetings may be found on http://olelo.org/olelonet/ by searching on .
XII. ADJOURNMENT

A mailing list is maintained for interested persons and agencies to receive this board's agenda and minutes. Additions, corrections, and deletions to the mailing list may be directed to the Neighborhood Commission Office (NCO) at Kap lama Hale, 925 Dillingham Boule-vard, Suite 160, Honolulu, HI 96817, by telephone on (808) 768-3710, fax (808) 768-3711, or e-mailing nco@honolulu.gov. Agenda doc-uments and minutes are also available online at http://www.honolulu.gov/nco/boards.html.
Any individual wishing to attend a Neighborhood Board meeting who has questions about accommodations for a physical disability or a special physical need should call the NCO on (808) 768-3710 between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm or email a request to nco@honolulu.gov at least three business days prior to the scheduled meeting.
All written testimony must be received in the Neighborhood Commission Office 48 hours prior to the meeting. Written and/or oral tes-timony may also be submitted directly to the Board at the meeting if said meeting has an in-person component. If submitting written testimony, please note the specific Board and agenda item(s) your testimony concerns. Send such to the Neighborhood Commission Office, 925 Dillingham Boulevard, Suite 160, Honolulu, HI 96817, by fax to (808) 768-3711, or by email to nbtestimony@honolulu.gov.

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