NOTICE OF PUBLICATION AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the Kaua’i County Council will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, September 6, 2023, at 8:30 a.m., or soon thereafter, at the Council Chambers, 4396 Rice Street, Room 201, Historic County Building, Lihu’e, on the following:
Bill No. 2901
A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 5A, KAUA’I
COUNTY CODE 1987, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY TAX
(RPT Reform Tax Year 2024)
This Bill proposes to effectuate various substantive and non-substantive changes to Kaua’i County Code 1987, as amended, Chapter 5A, specifically:
(1) increasing the exemption amounts of Section 5A-11.4 (Homes); (2) amending Section 5A-11.22 (Historic Residential Real Property Dedicated for Preservation, Exemption) to clarify both the exemption’s scope and its definition of “residential”; (3) repealing (deleting) the no longer needed programs codified at Section 5A-11.7 (Person Affected with Leprosy), Section 5A-11.11 (Property Used in Manufacture of Pulp and Paper), Section 5A-11.14 (Exemptions for Air Pollution Control Facility), Section 5A-11.16 (Exemptions for Air Pollution Control Facility), and Section 5A-11.31 (Automatic Fire Suppression System Exemption); (4) changing the term “owner” to “taxpayer” at Section 5A-12.1 (Appeals); (5) amending Section 5A-11A.3 (Assessment Cap for Home Exemption Property and Property Used For Long Term Affordable Rental) to remove the assessment cap’s three percent (3%) “floor” and other updates; and (6) creating a new section entitled “Assessment Cap for Other Than Home Exemption Property and Property Used For Long-Term Affordable Rental” stating in part: “All property not eligible for the three percent (3%) assessment cap under Section 5A-11.3 shall receive a twenty percent (20%) assessment cap.” This Proposed Draft Bill would take effect upon its approval (which therefore would impact the Tax Year beginning July 1, 2024).
Bill No. 2902
A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 5A, KAUA’I
COUNTY CODE 1987, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY TAX
(RPT Reform Tax Year 2025)
This Bill proposes to effectuate various substantive and non-substantive changes to Kaua’i County Code 1987, as amended, Chapter 5A, specifically:
(1) amending Section 5A-11.6 (Homes of Totally Disabled Veterans) to be renamed “Homes of Disabled Veterans” and to expand the exemption to apply to specified disabled veterans who are eighty percent (80%) to totally disabled; (2) amending Section 5A-11.8 (Exemption, Persons with Impaired Sight or Hearing and Persons Totally Disabled) to delete the term “Totally” in the title and to expand the exemption of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) to apply to specified disabled veterans who are less than eighty percent (80%) disabled; (3) amending Section 5A-11A.2 (Limitation of Taxes for Home Preservation) to increase the allowable income of all owners from one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) to two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) and increase the minimum property net taxable assessed value from seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000.00) to one million dollars ($1,000,000.00); (4) amending Section
5A-11A.1 (Beneficial Tax Rate for Property Used for Long-Term Affordable Rental) by amending the definition of “Long-term affordable rental limit” from: “the midpoint of the maximum rental limits for each unit type using between up to eighty percent (80%) and one hundred percent (100%) of the Kaua’i median household income as defined by the Kaua’i County Housing Agency Rental Housing Guidelines” to “up to eighty percent (80%) of the Kaua’i median household income as defined by the Kaua’i County Housing Agency Rental Housing Guidelines” and other updates; (5) creating a new exemption entitled “Exemption for Property Used for Long-Term Gap Housing Rental” for “each unit type up to one hundred percent (100%) of the Kaua’i median household income as defined by the Kaua’i County Housing Agency Rental Housing Guidelines; (6) amending Section 5A-11A.3 (Assessment Cap for Home Exemption Property and Property Used For Long Term Affordable Rental) to remove the assessment cap’s three percent (3%) “floor” and other updates; and (7) creating a new section entitled “Assessment Cap for Other Than Home Exemption Property and Property Used For Long-Term Affordable Rental” stating in part: “All property not eligible for the three percent (3%) assessment cap under Section 5A-11.3 shall receive a twenty percent (20%) assessment cap.” This Proposed Draft Bill would take effect upon its approval (allowing codification, creation of forms, and applications due by September 30, 2024), with changes to impact the Tax Year beginning July 1, 2025.
Any person may testify at the public hearing, and at any Council
and Committee Meeting (at which time any Bill may be amended). Meeting
notices and full-text Bills are available at least six (6) days in advance at the
Office of the County Clerk, Council Services Division and kauai.gov/Government/Council/Webcast-Meetings. Written testimony may be submitted via counciltestimony@kauai.gov, mail, or fax. For further information, please call (808) 241-4188.
CERTIFICATE OF THE COUNTY CLERK
I hereby certify that the Kaua’i County Council passed on first reading and ordered to print Bill Nos. 2901 and 2902 during the August 9, 2023 Council Meeting, by the following vote:
AYES: Bulosan, Carvalho, Cowden, DeCosta, Kagawa, Kuali’i
Rapozo TOTAL – 7,
NOES: None TOTAL – 0,
EXCUSED & NOT VOTING: None TOTAL – 0,
RECUSED & NOT VOTING: None TOTAL – 0.
Lihu’e, Hawai’i /s/ Jade K. Fountain-Tanigawa
August 10, 2023 County Clerk, County of Kaua’i
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(TGI1426507 8/15/23)
