Kauai County

Top issues

The five most-discussed unresolved issues, ranked by recorded discussion time (a measure of importance and contention), then by how many meetings they came up in.

Issues on upcoming agendas

Issues linked from the meetings scheduled in the next 10 days.

Recent updates

Issues with new information found in the last 7 days, newest first.

Upcoming meetings

Recent meetings

One page per meeting, summarizing every record we have of it (agenda, minutes, video and transcript).

Issues with near term decisions

Long running topics

No actions pending

Completed

Sources

Where the data comes from

• Council site: https://www.kauai.gov/Government/Council. Council Services Division, Office of the County Clerk, 4396 Rice St, Suite 209, Lihue; (808) 241-4188. Mayor: https://www.kauai.gov/Government/Office-of-the-Mayor
• Agendas, minutes and recap memoranda: https://www.kauai.gov/Government/Council/Council-Meeting-Agendas-Minutes-Recap-Memoranda (Council) and https://www.kauai.gov/Government/Council/Committee-Meeting-Agendas-Minutes (committees)
• Video: Granicus, https://kauai.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2 (player pages and MP4 files); live and recorded webcasts at https://www.kauai.gov/Government/Council/Webcast-Meetings. No YouTube video ids are on record, so no captions are queued.
• Boards and commissions: https://www.kauai.gov/Government/Boards-and-Commissions
• Testimony: [email protected]; remote oral testimony sign-up at [email protected] by noon on the business day before.
• Collected 2026-11-07 (added at Dewey's request).

Governing body

• County of Kauai (includes Niihau). Seven-member County Council, 2024-2026 term. Chair Mel Rapozo; Vice Chair KipuKai Kualii
• Members: Addison Bulosan, Bernard P. Carvalho, Jr, Felicia Cowden, Fern Holland, Arryl Kaneshiro
• Mayor: Derek S.K. Kawakami. County Clerk: Jade K. Fountain-Tanigawa; Deputy County Clerk: Lyndon M. Yoshioka
• Council committees: Planning; Finance and Economic Development (FED); Public Works and Veterans Services; Parks and Recreation/Transportation; Committee of the Whole. Committee chairs and membership were not captured.
• The roster is pre-election. The 2026-11-03 general election results were not verified, and a new Council and Mayor may be seated in December 2026 (uncertain). See 2026 Election and Council Transition.

Data quality notes

• Council meeting pages are built from agendas and the Clerk's recap memoranda; vote tallies are not in the recaps and are not stated. Committee minutes were not read in full.
• Outcomes of the 2026-10-28 public hearings (Bills 3003, 3004, 3006, 3007, 3008) and of the 2026-10-21 special meeting were not captured.
• The 2026-11-18 committee meeting date comes from a garbled calendar PDF and is uncertain. No Council meeting on 2026-12-01 to 2026-12-03 is confirmed.
• Planning Commission meetings are only partly listed (2026-10-13 and 2026-11-10); other board and commission meetings were not itemized.