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Local Benefits

Elect Luci 'Ohana, working for our community. During the 2006 Election campaign, our sign wave volunteers also cleaned Maui's roadsides of 20 bags of trash and recycled the aluminum, glass and plastic thanks to dedicated volunteers like Michael Duberstein and Buck Joiner (pictured below). 2008 signwaving will do the same. Come join us! Contact

Luci is often involved in local projects to clean-up and care for our lands and waters.

Local Economy

Luci has spent her life as a small business owner. The Elect Luci campaign 2008 has made a commitment to BUY LOCAL. Our printing, graphics, yard signs, T-shirts, banners and event food and supplies are primarily from local farms and small businesses and support jobs for our community.

Local Resources

Luci has spent ten years working with citizen groups, county and state agencies to restore stream flows in west and east Maui streams and replenish aquifers. Recent court decisions have begun the historic process of restoring streams. Luci is currently working with citizens, County and EPA to redirect reclaimed wastewater in Lahaina that can promote algae growth and smother our reefs. Funding is needed to transport the water mauka to irrigate green belts for fire prevention.

Local Planning

• Luci was appointed to the 25 member General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC) in 2005. She is reviewing the same information that council members will use to decide Maui Island's future policies and growth boundaries.
  
  
• Luci was among a small group of citizens who saw a need for local land trusts to partner with government in protecting lands for future generations. She is a founding member of Maui Coastal Land Trust and Maui Cultural Lands, successfully protecting and managing thousands of acres of open space, important cultural, biological and recreational resources in Maui Nui.

If you believe, as I do, that we need decision makers who are actively looking for solutions and not content to just recycle the platitudes and PR campaigns of the current power brokers, please become part of this second campaign. I face an incumbent in the East Maui seat, and I will only succeed if we all work together.

It has been a busy two years since the 2006 election. Although I narrowly lost a chance to serve as a Council person, I have been working hard as a volunteer to help plan Maui's future as an appointed member of the General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC). We are the citizens who are helping shape a new blueprint: Maui's 2030 Plan.

I am proud to have attended every one of the fifty or more GPAC meetings over the past two and a half years and have volunteered to serve on a number of key smaller committees. Many of my fellow GPAC members have also encouraged me to run for the council for one simple reason: We have worked hard to come up with land use policies, and infrastructure plans for Maui that serve the needs of Maui's families and protect the places we all love. But it is not GPAC, but the 9 members of the county council, who will decide what version of this plan becomes the law that guides Maui's next 30 years.

Personally, I feel stronger than ever that Maui needs leaders who have the vision, skills and courage to build a new energy future, give local food production a boost and work towards a new economy beyond the uncertain world trends that may affect tourism.

As always, you can count on me to do my research on every issue and find effective ways to work with others to make positive change.

My goal is a better life for Maui's people. I am ready to be a voice for you and your family and our island home. Please consider the ways you can help.

Owner of a small business, de Naie has spent the last decade working with a variety of non-profit organizations on behalf of the public interest. She was recently recognized by the governor's office for her many years of stewardship of public lands.

She is a member of the 25-member citizens advisory committee updating Maui County's general plan, a blueprint for Maui's future.

She recently co-authored a book on the history of Makena and is the author of a 200-page report on Maui's water sources. She is a founding member of Maui Cultural Lands, Inc., a non-profit land trust currently restoring acres of cultural sites in Honokowai Valley and of the Maui Coastal Land Trust.

"I've talked with, literally, thousands of folks over the years who are worried that local families are getting squeezed out by runaway land prices and pricey projects by Mainland and foreign developers."

"The failure to look at the long term and the unwillingness to make tough decisions threatens Maui's family farms, scarce water supplies and irreplaceable natural resources."

"Through my community advocacy, I have shown that these problems can be successfully addressed. That's what I want to do on the County Council."

A Huelo resident for more than two decades, de Naie has worked with a broad range of community leaders to create and implement Maui Economic and Business Development's Focus Maui Nui community outreach project and has been a panelist at several statewide planning conferences. She was selected for the Mayor's Open Space Zoning Advisory Committee, the Keoneoio Task Force and the Water Use and Development Plan advisory group and is on the board of the Sustainable Living Institute of Maui.

She currently serves as chairperson of the Hawaii chapter of the Sierra Club and has held leadership positions with Maui Tomorrow, the Haiku Community Association, Surfrider Foundation and the Haiku Living Legacy Project.

Lucienne at the Makawao Parade