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Date: May 31, 2022 at 3:56:32 PM HST Subject: Manoa No. 7 - Meeting Cancellation Last week, our office was unable to satisfy the requirements for digital posting of your Manoa Neighborhood Board No. 7 meeting agenda. This was due in part to staffing shortages from COVID 19 protocols. As a result, and in accordance with the State’s Sunshine Law, your Board’s June meeting needs to be cancelled. Our office will work to assist your Board with matters relating to rescheduling the meetings or any other assistance needed. We apologize for the inconvenience these cancellations will cause. Please call me at (808) 768-3710 if you have any questions. Mahalo, Lloyd M. Yonenaka Executive Secretary to the Neighborhood Commission
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This will be a virtual online meeting. Agenda excerpt provided below:
"4. Unfinished Business 4.1. Elderly Affordable Rental Housing–”Mānoa Banyan Court.” Location: Tax Map Key 2-9-043:002. Proposer: Lin Yee Chung Association (LYCA). Contact: Charles Wong, 808-779-6189, or [email protected]. Address: 3430 East Mānoa Rd, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96822. 4.1.1. Remarks concerning the Saturday, April 30, 2022 Mānoa Town Hall (Organizers: Councilmember Say, the Mānoa Branch of the Outdoor Circle, Mālama Mānoa). 4.1.2. Consideration of a Form Letter for Board Comment to Public Agencies re: “Preliminary Resident Testimony Relating to the Mānoa Banyan Court Project.” 4.1.3. Discussion Regarding the 201H Affordable Housing Process and “Expedited Review.” 4.1.4. Any other considerations as to Mānoa Banyan Court." Meeting agenda and dial-in instructions posted here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14hYFI0DvMjKZEbpZaeqZNaMe1iVtmm8C/view?usp=sharing Manoa Neighborhood Board Chairperson acknowledges review/receipt of 30 April Town Hall testimony5/18/2022 Below is 14 May email from Manoa Neighborhood Board Chairperson Dylan Armstrong, formally acknowledging review/receipt of 30 April Town Hall testimony which was overwhelming against the Manoa Banyan Court development. Next Manoa Neighborhood Board meeting is 01 June (Wed). Recommend we all email a request to Dylan Armstrong ([email protected]) to resume holding in-person Neighborhood Board meetings locally in Manoa Valley ASAP.
----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Dylan Armstrong <[email protected]> Cc: Say, Calvin <[email protected]>; Linda LeGrande <[email protected]>; jerry lam <[email protected]>; vanvanes <[email protected]>; Thalya DeMott <[email protected]>; Charles Wong <[email protected]>; Akiona, Partner <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2022, 05:07:24 AM HST Subject: (INFO) Receipt of Testimony, Mānoa Town Hall (30 April 2022) Aloha mai kākou, residents and friends of Mānoa: On behalf of the Mānoa Neighborhood Board No. 7, I reviewed the resident testimony from the 30 April 2022 Manoa Town Hall Meeting. Thanks for organizing this meeting are owed to Councilmember Calvin K.Y. Say, Mālama Mānoa, and the Mānoa Branch of the Outdoor Circle, especially organizer Vanessa Distajo. Thanks to moderator Valerie Koenig, and to Kumu Kilohana Silve for convening the meeting, are also due. This Town Hall was not a Board meeting. But it is of relevance to the Board. As you may know, Board members attended or observed, and two spoke: Vice Chair Elton Fukumoto, and Board Member Whitney Bosel. As Mānoa Banyan Court concerns our Board, the project has been and will continue to be a topic listed on Mānoa Neighborhood Board meeting agendas. No changes to the project are known to the Board at this time. However, I am proactively keeping the topic on our Board agendas, indefinitely. When specific updates are known right now, in advance of the Board's agenda submission deadline, tany such updates will be specified under the project's name, and any appropriate speakers would be listed. Our next Board meeting is on June 1, the final meeting of our Board officers term. The first item of our unfinished business will be Mānoa Banyan Court. Later, we will also be dealing with many long-standing needs. Notably, we will welcome our 2022 state office candidates to speak briefly to the Board, before residents receive their ballots by mail in July. (This is an all mail-in election, and we have less time than in previous years for election information to reach the public.) Important issues like Red Hill and drinking water, and general affordable housing (prospectively for the Board of Water Supply, and Hawaiʻis Housing Future), will be postponed until no sooner than Julyʻs meeting. If you wish to receive the Board agendas by email, I recommend requesting this of the Neighborhood Commission Office, at [email protected]. Thank you for speaking publicly to share your thoughts about Mānoa Banyan Court with the neighborhood, and the broader community. -- Best, Dylan P. Armstrong, Chair Mānoa Neighborhood Board No. 7 P.S. As of yesterday, the Town Hall video is now archived online on YouTube. You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d4JjUZeJ0s A HUGE MAHALO to the over 200 Manoa residents/friends who turned out to voice their personal concerns about Manoa Banyan Court development at a two-hour In-Person Town Hall meeting, Saturday, 30 April at Old Manoa Gym. Town Hall was organized courtesy of The Outdoor Circle - Manoa Branch and Malama Manoa. All Town Hall speakers (except one) were overwhelmingly opposed to the proposed development project. KHON, KITV, and Hawaii News Now covered the Town Hall. Elected officials attending included City Council members CALVIN SAY, CAROL FUKUNAGA, and BRANDON ELEFANTE, and State Representative DALE KOBAYASHI. Some LYCA trustees and Manoa Neighborhood Board members also attended. |
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