Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

Transmission lines, power poles and tree planting plans explored at South Maui meeting. “… we are doomed to 70-foot power poles going down Pi‘ilani Highway.” Tom Blackburn-Rodriguez Maui Weekly www.mauiweekly.com It was a packed house at the Kihei Community Association’s (KCA) monthly meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 16, at the Kihei Charter Middle School on Lipoa [...]

After a brief tutorial by education committee chair Andrew Beerer on our ever improving website, the three guests, G- Pac Vice- chair Dick Mayor, Council member Don Couch and ranch representative Rory Frampton each addressed the topic on growth and development in South Maui, including an extensive informative power point by professor Mayor. An audience of [...]

After a brief introductory appraisal on the potential population grown in Kihei by President Jon Miller, Education Committee Chair Andrew Beerer offered the present and future state of the public schools in Kihei before an enthusiastic audience. Principals Chris Daily (Kamai’i) and Halle Maxwell (Kihei Elementry) and Charter School representatives Gene Zarro,Mark Christiano, Gail Weaver each [...]

While the room was chilly, the attitude and spirit was welcoming warm, as President Jon Miller opening the meeting a bit tardy due some improved but still challenging tech issues (cool wireless mics for the panel!) Pat Rouse began announcing “Aging with Aloha Coalition’s” community forum on 2/23 at the KCMS at 5:30 PM, before [...]

Overcoming some “opening night” glitches at the new digs at Kihei Charter School using the just completed (moments before the meeting began) set, President Jon Miller welcomed County Directors Will Spence (Planning) and David Goode (Public Works,) for a lively discussion concerning the recent storm related  damages and challenges, as well as the ongoing questions of [...]

June 29, 2010 The Kihei Community Association reviewed A&B’s 94.3 acre 500 unit residential project and will present to the community during the September 21st public general membership meeting.  We will seek your comments and participation at that time.  Please see an overview of the project below:

Panel discusses critical factors that need to be addressed now to avoid a future water crisis. “We must rethink what we have been doing.” Scott Broadbent, Maui Weekly POSTED: June 24, 2010 One of life’s most fundamental needs, clean water, may soon be in short supply on Maui. And the way we dispose of our [...]

The 6/15/10 KCA monthly meeting explored some of the causes of near shore water pollution & deterioration of the coral reef system and some possible ways to rectify them. The DIRE (don’t inject, redirect) coalition, represented by Irene Bowie and Robin Knox explaining the workings of the S W Maui Watershed Group, and Pump Don’t Dump by KCA [...]

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 [...]