Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Board No. 13, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026

1.. CALL TO ORDER

1.1 Roll Call

2.. PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTS (including discussion on board/community inquiries; 5 minutes each)

2.1 Honolulu Fire Department (HFD); 2.2 Honolulu Police Department (HPD); 2.3 Honolulu Emergency Services (HESD); a Community Outreach Response and Engagement (CORE) Services Update

3.. PUBLIC CONCERNS (2 minutes each regarding issues not listed on the agenda)

4.. BOARD BUSINESS

4.1 Board vote on audience question/comment time limit to 1 minute due to time constraints and to accommodate other speakers.; 4.2 Board vote to approve draft written summary of the regular meeting video record for Thursday, September 3, 2026.

5.. MONTHLY REPORTS (3 minutes on reports with board/community inquiries to follow)

5.1 Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) – Iris Oda; 5.2 Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) – Harry Cho; 5.3 Hawaiian Electric (HECO) – Ricky Honma; 5.4 Downtown Honolulu Business Improvement District – Brooke Klejnot; 5.5 Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation Highways Division (HDOT) – Robert Stellmacher; 5.6 Chinatown Business Community Association (CBCA) – Chu Lan Shubert-Kwock; 5.7 Neighborhood Citizen Patrol – Kevin Lye; 5.8 Oʻahu Metropolitan Planning Organization (OʻahuMPO) Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) – Nicole Shintani

6.. ELECTED OFFICIALS – (5 minutes each; with board/community inquiries to follow)

6.1 Congressman Ed Case’s Representative; 6.2 Governor Josh Green’s Representative – Stephen Downes; 6.3 Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s Representative – Ian Santee; 6.4 City Council (District 6) – Tyler Dos Santos-Tam; 6.5 State Senate (District 13) – Karl Rhoads; 6.6 State House (District 25) – Kim Coco Iwamoto; 6.7 State House (District 28) – Michael Cov Ratcliffe

7.. PRESENTATIONS (10 minutes max per presentation; with board/community inquiries to follow)

7.1 Aloha Mortuary Introduction – Charish “Kawehi” Correa, President of Aloha Mortuary; 7.2 Honolulu City Lights – City & County of Honolulu and Friends of Honolulu City Lights; 7.3 Oʻahu Resilience Hub Learning Community – Sage Murakami, CERENE; 7.4 Chinatown Business Directory – Chinese Chamber of Hawaiʻi; 7.5 A Downtown Family Christmas – New Life Church – Saturday, December 12, 2026, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Smith & Beretania Park. Putting on a free public event with live music, games and free gifts for children – Jacob Chung Jr.; 7.6 Honolulu Safer Streets Project – Beretania St., South King St., and Young St. Traffic Safety Improvements and Upcoming Community Meeting – Honolulu Complete Streets Team

8.. ANNOUNCEMENTS

8.1 The next Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Board No. 13 regular meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 5, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. at Keʻelikōlani Middle School and virtually via WebEx. Rebroadcasts of Downtown-Chinatown Neighborhood Board No. 13 meetings are scheduled on ʻŌlelo channel 49 for every third Thursday at 9:00 p.m., as well as 9:00 a.m. on the fourth Saturday of each month. An archive of past meetings may be found on by searching on <Downtown Board>.

9.. ADJOURNMENT