Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

Maui County official discusses roads, sidewalks, bike paths and flooding in South Maui. “What we have to do is try to work with what we have.” February 2, 2012 Tom Blackburn-Rodriguez , The Maui Weekly It was a full house at the Tuesday, Jan. 17, meeting of the Kihei Community Association (KCA), with over 85 people gathered [...]

KCA Website update! Our computer wizards had eliminated the Menehunes, and you can again join or renew your membership on the website. If you are not a member, please join us. An animated group of South Maui residents heard DPW Director David Goode tell the KCA  the answers to a lot of questions on flooding & transportation [...]

  Announcements that MECO is considerating alternatives to 70′ towers through our viewplaines; that land was aquired for new high school; and youth intern program at  Haleakala Park kicked off the meeting, before Jackie Jura announced the nomination of the 2012 BOD candidates, who were elected by member acclamation. Jay Krigsman of Krausz offered his updated visual presentation [...]

Since the Public Utility Commissioners would not come to the KCA meeting, we went to their’s, to talk about MECO’s proposed 70′ towers across Kihei’s view plains. So what did the commissioners have to say? Chair Hermina Morita, John Cole, and the new (not yet confirmed) Maui’s own Michael Champley, politely listened to testifiers mostly [...]

You know the adage, “If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.” But what if you have a good plan, and it fails. This was the essense of Jon Miller’s frustration, as he asked since we had a good community plan, how did we end up here, and what can be done to eliminate [...]

A spirited meeting at the Kihei Charter Middle School focused on a specific A&B Properties development in North Kihei just mauka of the highway near Kaiwahine St. presented by Grant Chun and Dan Yasui, followed by an expansion of the issue with County long term planner John Summers giving an overview of development throughout Kihei, [...]

Anyone who recreates in our south shore waters over the years will verify the reef system is continuously deteriorating. The longer you’ve observed, the worse the situation has declined. There are myriad reasons for the deterioration, running the gambit from pesticide & insecticide run off, sewage dumping and leakage, injection wells, unrestricted street and gulch [...]

President Jon Miller opened the meeting with an announcement that at this same location & time, 6:30PM, one week later (3/23) Maui County Council has scheduled the local budget hearing,encouraging all to attend to testify. He then proceeded to introduce the panel discussing the proposed State Prison in South Maui: Tommy Johnson, Deputy Director, Depart [...]

The first meeting for 2010 featured presentations by retired MCC professor Dick Mayer & RAM director Dave De Leon and included input from Kula Community officer Alan Kaufman on the present system of electing County Council members and potential changes and improvements, which included what the “other” KCA had concluded on this issue. A detailed [...]

The November 17th meeting focused on Education in South Maui. The last 2009 community meeting went out on a high note with the largest audience, the largest panel presentation and the largest donation for the Food Bank. The meeting began with the vote for the 2010 KCA board of directors, which showed the return of [...]