Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

  FREE prescription glasses*** FREE dental care*** and more  right here in Kihei next month (June) Does this sound too good to be true? Well County spokesman Rod Antone says it is true and he and EA and long term Councilman Joe Pontinella are the “point-men” for the program, which runs daily from June 4 [...]

On Tuesday morning (5/14/13) the KCA planning committee welcomed Wilson Okomoto Corp. of Oahu offering  a presentation of a proposed bridge replacement in the notorious flooding area at the corner of Kaonoulu, near the Whale Sanctuary in North Kihei. The existing four barrel box culverts are failing, and a bridge replacement is being developed. Led by [...]

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 [...]

No, it was not a  KCA  public meeting on Tuesday (4/30/13) evening at the Kihei Community Center, but with nearly half of the all volunteer KCA BOD, some committee and numerous general members in attendance and participating, totaling probably half of the 40 in attendance, KCA’s voice was a strong one. But it was a Maui [...]

Over 40 individuals offered their opinions to the County Council’s Budget and Finance Committee at the Community Center Monday (4/1/13) evening covering a wide range of topics ranging from numerous non profits requesting support to the SPCA Maui asking to administer the animal neutering program. The Committee, composed of all nine Council members, conducts several [...]

If much of South Maui was unplanned, or poorly designed, is it too late to fix it? Do you have a  vision for Kihei’s future? What does smart planning mean to you? This month’s general membership meeting on Tuesday, April 16, will examine some of these issues and concerns, beginning at 6:30 PM at the [...]

UPDATE (MAR 22, 2013) As the County Council awaits receiving the budget from  the mayor on Monday (3/25/13), KCA is awaiting confirmation that the money is there for this long expected bicycle path (APR 24, 2012) As the community enjoys the just completed bike path makai of Liloa between Lipoa Street and Waipuilani Road, Public Works [...]

The KCA expresses out thanks to Council Member Don Couch for a conversation this morning (3/18/13)  concerning KCA priorties for  the upcoming 2014 FY budget. Several directors advised our major concerns formulated mostly around making South Maui more pedestrian and bicycle friendly.  Specifics went to the North South Collector Road corridor and what can be achieved there with [...]

At 9:00 AM this morning (3/16/13), Maui County blessed and opened the first official off leash dog park at Keopuolani Park in Kahului, and has already announced plans for the next one in Makawao. Will south Maui be next?  While there is an off leash dog park now in Wailea, it is not a county [...]