SENATOR MAILE SHIMABUKURO 2022 HAWAII STATE LEGISLATURE
DECEMBER 2022 Waiʻanae - Nānākuli - Maili - Ko Olina - Honokai Hale - Kapolei - Kalaeloa
All Wai’anae Coast Classrooms are Slated for Air Conditioning I worked with Rep. Kapela, Rep. Gates, Rep. Eli and other colleagues to pass SB2862 which will allocate $10M to cool classrooms fully by next year in all Waianae Coast class rooms.
This is a dream come true. I remember visiting school rooms and portables and they were really like ovens. Learning is stifled when class conditions are uncomfortable. Over the last several years, the state made cooling class rooms and learning spaces a priority. I recently filmed a video with our WHS Searider Productions to announce that Wai’anae High School installed huge warehouse-style fans in their gym and cafeteria. I’m so grateful to the DOE. For working so hard. ~ Maile
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Homelessness & Housing ~ Mandatory HI CARES Referral for Chronic Homeless: Authorize law enforcement and outreach workers to require chronically homeless adults and adolescents to participate in the State Department of Health’s Hawaii CARES program to avoid criminal penalties. HI CARES is a free statewide 24/7 call center (phone 808-832-3100) which provides a crisis mobile outreach worker, two-week inpatient stay, case management, drug and mental health treatment, welfare application and housing placement assistance, and a host of other compassionate social services. There remains so much which needs to be done. ~ Medication Assisted Treatment: As part of the strategy to address homelessness, establish a drug rehabilitation and treatment program which offers incarcerated individuals medication and therapy. Modeled after Rhode Island’s program which has shown great success in reducing recidivism. Incarcerated persons who enter the program are able to and remain active clients when they exit prison. With ongoing therapy and follow-up, there are dramatically improved outcomes from which there are recoverable cost savings thru notably decreased recividism. ~ Kauhale Bill: Requires the Hawaiʻi Public Housing Authority, in consultation with the Dept. of Health and Dept. of Human Services to establish the Kauhale Program to provide micro housing units and also services to homeless individuals and families. Creates an advisory committee. Exempts existing low-income rentals, tiny home villages, and kauhale from certain provisions for the duration of their underlying leases consistent with the Governor's 2015 and 2018 proclamations on homelessness. Provides funds.
TRANSPORTATION ~ Paakea Road: Create a parallel route from Paakea Road to Lualualei Naval Road by removing the emergency access road gates ~ Contraflow & Turning Lanes: Add turn lanes at the Lualualei Naval Rd., Nanaikeola St., and Helelua St. intersections; extend the afternoon contraflow ~ Makaha Surfing Beach: Adopt the master plan by re-routing Farrington Highway further mauka to address sea level rise and provide an alternate bus turnaround; ~ Princess Kahanu Estates/Mā’ili: install speed humps were necessary and other high-speed areas; lengthen existing speed humps to extend to shoulders.
Senator Maile Shimabukuro’s 2023 Potential Priority Concerns and Legislation Page 2 of 2
EDUCATION
~ Cool Classrooms: air condition all Waianae Coast classrooms by end of 2023 ~ Papahana O Kaiona alternative learning center: establish a facility and operations at the old Kaiser Building on St. John's Road ~ Waianae Coast Swimming Pool: collaboration between WHS, YMCA, WCCHC, and others
HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS
~ Ulu Ke Kukui: renovate transitional housing project into rental units for DHHL beneficiaries ~ WCCHC Lands: multi-family DHHL and workforce housing at foot of WCCHC ~ Community & Hawaiian Cultural Center/Food Distribution Warehouse: GIA to build a community and Hawaiian cultural center, and Food Distribution Warehouse, on DHHL property next to WCCHC ~ Water Rights: Add a DHHL representative to the DLNR Water Commission ~ OHA Settlement: Provide entitlements at Kakaako, and adopt recommendations of the Ceded Lands Working Group
ENVIRONMENT
~ Pokai Bay Jetty: Environmental testing and re-design for improved circulation ~ Tire Bill: implement a deposit program and tracking system to combat illegal tire dumping ~ Flood Mitigation: Collaboration between Navy, City, State, and groups in Lualualei Valley ~ Water Testing: require DOH to perform water quality testing during brown water advisories and inform the public of health risks due to water runoff.
AGRICULTURE
~ Pig & Sheep Farmers, other small animal slaughterhouse & solar farm at Kalaeloa ($4m CIP) ~ Solar Farm Housing First Projects: modeled after Wai’anae’s “Cedar Farms,” resolution urging solar farms to elevate panels so that beneath them they can provide low-income Housing First farm worker living quarters to address homeless crisis
HEALTH
~ WCCHC Emergency Room: GIA for operating funds ~ Telephone Healthcare services: permanently allow for patients in rural and underserved areas to access healthcare through telephone only means ~ FMAP & PBM: Support WCCHC’s efforts to improve the Federal Medical Assistance Program (FMAP), and Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) initiatives
JUDICIARY
~ Clean Slate: automatically remove expunged offenses, and delete dismissed traffic citations, from a person’s public record ~ Parent’s Counsel: Require Courts to promptly appoint attorneys to low-income parents who are threatened with parental rights termination by CPS ~ Service of Process: Replace the requirement to obtain a judge’s approval to serve family court complaints, petitions, etc. off-island, with a declaration. Include in the declaration that litigants shall abide by the terms of the Hauge Convention in regards to foreign service of process.
PUBLIC SAFETY
~ Makua Checkpoint Station: Modeled after successful programs at Hanauma Bay, Diamond Head, Haena, etc, transform a former military structure into a Checkpoint run by a non-profit. At the Checkpoint, the non-profit may collect fees from tourists; provide cultural orientation/ education; issue parking permits; and support DLNR/DOCARE law enforcement efforts, from Makua Cave to Kaena Point. ~ Disaster Preparedness: Resolution urging the Department of Emergency Management to implement a comprehensive disaster preparedness plan for the Leeward Coast for licensed veterinarians
WAI’ANAE COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER TO HELP PŌKA’Ī BAY
PŌKA‘I UPDATE: Medium Bacteria Levels Detected on 9/4/2022. Water samples are collected every other Sunday morning and driven to Honolulu for testing by Surfrider Foundation, and results are posted on Monday. Track the water testing results for Pokai Bay (bay side), Pokai Bay (ocean side) & Kaupuni Stream using the Blue Water Task Force. The link is at https://bwtf.surfrider.org/report/44 for current weather and ocean data. Also, here’s the link for Magic Seaweed: https://magicseaweed.com/Hawaii-Surf-Forecast/51/
Mahalo nui loa to volunteers Patrice Tanna, Cisco Santos, Linda & Tam Reeves, Mary Ellen Apostol, Karen Young, Carmen and Joseph Simpliciano, and many others. If you are interested in volunteering, contact Sen. Shimabukuro’s liaison, Patrice Tanna, at p.tanna@capitol.hawaii.gov or call 808-586-7793.
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