NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION

Candidate Registration is
Now Open for 2025
Neighborhood Board Elections!

All current board members of the 2023-2025 Board term will need to register for the new term. Registration and candidate profile forms will not roll over from the previous Neighborhood Elections.

Important Dates:
• Friday, December 20, 2024 – Candidate and Voter Registration Begins
• Friday, February 21, 2025 – Candidate Filing and Voter Registration Deadline
• Friday, April 25, 2025 – Voting Begins
• Friday, May 16, 2025 – Voting Ends

For more information
Visit https://web5.hnl.info/nbe or https://www8.honolulu.gov/nco/

Contact us at NCO@honolulu.gov or
Call 808-768-3710

SURVEY COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2025 at 6:00 P.M.
Kapālama Hale – Room 260
925 Dillingham Boulevard, Honolulu, HI 96817
AND VIA WEBEX

This meeting location is open to public participation.
Other available options include participating by computer, phone or by video system.
WebEx and phone-in instructions are as follows:

Meeting Link: https://cchnl.webex.com/cchnl/j.php?MTID=me37a0f8e817f55da4bef430835bf5fc7
Meeting Number / Access Code: 2496 621 4969
Password: NC00 (6200 from phones and video systems)
Join by Phone: +1-408-418-9388 United States Toll

Recordings of Commission meetings can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/@NeighborhoodCommissionOffice

Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LS8mfBOkIKp5hqr6Fwr5Kn1HCYCURUu0

Rules of Speaking: Anyone wishing to speak is asked to raise his or her hand, and when recognized by the Chair, to address comments to the Chair. Speakers are to keep their comments under 2 minutes. Public testimony taken at the beginning of each agenda item. Please silence all electronic devices.

Note: The Commission may take action on any agenda item. As required by the State Sunshine Law (Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 92), specific issues not noted on this agenda cannot be voted on, unless properly added to the agenda.

I. CALL TO ORDER – Committee Chair Steven Melendrez

II. PUBLIC CONCERNS – Limited to 2 minutes for items not on the agenda

III. APPROVAL OF COMMITTEE MINUTES
A. Thursday, January 23, 2025 Written Summary for Video Record

IV. BOARD BUSINESS
A. Neighborhood Commission Survey – Members of the Commission’s Survey Committee shall review, discuss and make recommendations to the Survey Committee’s Commission Survey for final annotation prior to presentation to full Commission for acceptance consideration.
1. Motion to adopt the survey and present to the full Commission

V. ANNOUNCEMENTS
A. Next Meeting – The next regular meeting of the Neighborhood Commission is scheduled for Monday, February 24, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. on Webex, and at Kapālama Hale.
B. Neighborhood Board Elections: Candidate Registration for 2025 Neighborhood Board Elections Now Open until Friday, February 21, 2025. All current board members of the 2023-2025 Board term will need to register for the new term. Registration and candidate profile forms will not roll over from the previous Neighborhood Elections. Please visit https://www8.honolulu.gov/nco/ for more details or contact the Neighborhood Commission Office at NCO@honolulu.gov or call (808) 768-3710.

VI. ADJOURNMENT

DRAFT SURVEY COMMITTEE MEETING WRITTEN SUMMARY FOR VIDEO RECORD
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2025 – 6:00 P.M.
KAPĀLAMA HALE CONFERENCE ROOM 260 – 925 DILLINGHAM BOULEVARD, HONOLULU, HI 96817
AND VIA WEBEX TELECONFERENCING

Video recording of this meeting can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss3X2qkOuXU

Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RDfCWkkwpkI1TIVmz8qdE22pfZqgN84f

I. CALL TO ORDER – [0:00:05]: Committee Chair Melendrez called the meeting to order at 6:01 p.m.

Committee Members Present: Mahealani Bernal, Steven Melendrez, Larry Veray, and Claire Tamamoto (6:14 p.m.).

Committee Members Absent: Richard Oshiro.

Guests: Michelle Matson (Diamond Head Neighborhood Board No.05); Lloyd Yonenaka, Dylan Whitsell, and Dylan Buck (Neighborhood Commission Office – NCO). There were 8 total attendees. Name not included if not legible on sign-in sheet, not signed in and/or not participated in discussion.

II. PUBLIC CONCERNS – [0:01:11]: No discussion.

III. APPROVAL OF COMMITTEE MINUTES – [0:01:24]

Thursday, November 21, 2024 Written Summary for Video Record – [0:01:24]: [0:01:42] – Veray MOVED and Bernal SECONDED to approve the Written Summary for Video Record as written. Hearing no objections or abstentions, the motion was ADOPTED; 3-0-0 (Aye: Bernal, Melendrez, Veray; Nay: None; Abstain: None) – [0:01:50]

IV. BOARD BUSINESS – [0:02:07]

Neighborhood Commission Survey – [0:02:07]: Committee Chair Melendrez announced that the goal of this meeting and the next meeting is to go through the narratives and compile and extract those items that the committee would like to see included in the survey. Committee Chair Melendrez opened the floor for each committee member to present their findings from their assigned portions of the submitted testimony from Neighborhood Board members.
• Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LWWySFGTPuiJTGlOLpAYLiMzdgLX4WMs/view?usp=drive_link

Tamamoto joined at 6:14 p.m.; 4 members present.

Questions, comments and concerns followed – [0:03:46]. The highlights of the discussion included the following topics: (1) meeting locations; (2) duration of meetings; (3) meeting minutes; and (4) responsibility of Chairs and Secretaries.

V. ANNOUNCEMENTS – [1:11:12]

Next Meeting – [1:11:12]: The next committee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. at Kapālama Hale 153 and virtually via Webex.

VI. ADJOURNMENT – [1:13:10]: As there was no further business, Committee Chair Melendrez adjourned the meeting at 7:14 p.m.

Submitted by: Dylan Buck, Community Relations Specialist, NCO
Reviewed by: Dylan Whitsell, Deputy, NCO
Finalized by: