Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

It was reported that when the Kihei Community Association( KCA) was established over a half century ago, the two major community concerns were water and roads, and most agree those concerns have not changed. What is changing is our water and our growth. It was just reported April had record lack of rainfall on Maui, while South [...]

UPDATE  5/8/13  While the event only drew 22 last evening, your Association was there in strength. Five members of KCA’s board of directors attended a small town smart growth and green streets informational open house on May 7 sponsored by Maui county’s departments of Planning and Public Works and by Maui’s Nutritional and Physical Activity [...]

UPDATE  Last evening’s (5/9/13) meeting seemed to have just a few residents in the small audience, after you subtracted the various government employees who participated. Read a professional report of this meeting in the Maui News.  http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/572598/Ammo-debris-found-during-bombing-site-investigation.html?nav=10   Do you know that just off the leeward coast of Maui within our Ahihi-Kina’u Reserve in South Maui, there [...]

We did it Kihei! $130 Million for Kihei High School. The Kihei Community Association has been advocating  for a full-service DOE High School for our community for decades. The Kihei High School Action Team (A KCA sub-committee) is happy to report that we have secured the financing to move forward. The House and Senate money [...]

We wish to extend a big mahalo  to the Kihei Sunrise Rotary Club for the invitation to address its April 10 weekly meeting to offer a report on our Community Association. Our President Mike Moran addressed a varied group of Rotarians, including several visiting from numerous clubs around the country. JoAnne Laird Larry Laird Larry Laird [...]

An audience of about 60 indicated much interest in how South Maui can recover from poor or even lack of planning for the past decades in our community at the general membership meeting last evening (4/16/13). Viewing and listening to George Rixey’s presentation on concepts he formulated in the 90′s elicited questions why they were [...]

UPDATE MAR 13, 2013: DOH CAB advises today they have issued the HC&S’s agricultural burn permit for the 2013 season, with the following modifications: ·requiring specific pre-burn conditions on all fields rather than just those fields that are close to public areas; ·providing more clarity and requiring additional documentation when conducting additional burns; ·requiring photos [...]

KCA has been a very strong supporter of the Pump Don’t Dump  group for several years, and link to that website, www.pumpdontdump.com  remains of our own homepage with a select group.  The strong actions of this unfunded grass roots group finally caused the cessation of much of the human waste dumping by commercial charter boats within the [...]

UPDATE   (2/26/13) This month we saw the portable speed device again alerting drivers in each direction their present speed, makai of the Pi’ilani highway on Ohukai in North Kihei.  Now Public Works Director David Goode has announced vehicle speed statistics were being compiled with a potential outcome being that speed tables or other traffic calming [...]

The proposed funding for South Maui High School is now in front of the State House Finance Committee. The Department of Education (DOE) via Governor Abercrombie requested $130 million in fiscal year 2015 to fund the construction of the school. KCA board member and education liason Andrew Beerer and KCA member Laura Marzke, both members of [...]