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�¢�y4axe 4ss4 September 23, 2021, HSAC Meeting Minutes Page � d s CM Chock- Small interjection to introduce Nahelani before Honolulu County gives an update. Welcome from everyone and introductions. 3 4. City/County of Honolulu- Update from CM Waters-In Honolulu's 2020 budget bill there was a proviso allowing the administration to have free reign of the CARES Act money. Have any of the other counties had the same situation?Looking at some of the council priorities and include them on how to spend the money. Budget attorney advised that they should have and could have put the ERAPA money in the budget. C. NACo Report No report. D. WIR Report CMKing reported that she wasn't able to attend the last meeting but there is an upcoming WIR National Conference in October 13-I5, 2021, in Salt Lake County, UT without any accommodations for virtual attendees. Motion to receive reports approved with no objections. V. NEW BUSINESS a. Discussion and consideration of 2022 HSAC Legislative Package and Extension of Deadlines and Proposals CM Waters asked ifgetting items through our councils before we submit to the HSAC board for approval and then back to the councils for final approval the most effeceint way to do this? CMKing-the by-laws don't say we need to send it to HSACfrom the councils first but once we get the HSAC package ready then we take it to our councils for approval. Having to have the bills officially approved beforehand seems like it forces too many deadlines. CM Kimball is okay with asking HSAC to approve legisltive priorities this time around. Two objectives are to get the bills we want this session and then to make HSAC a force legislatively. CM Chock- The reason HSAC is getting council approval before submitting to HSAC legislative packet review is to show that these have been vetted by the councils which shows support when submitting to the HSAC Legislative package. John Okudura-Believes the list is too long including in areas that we don't have expertise. Currently concentrating on 3 or 4 bills. We should focus on 4 or 5 bills at most in the package. CMKing- disagrees because they have had 15 bills in HSAC package before. John Okudura- Feels certain he can finish 3 bills by tomorrow if he hears back from the people about the taxes. He is having a hard time with the cesspools and the process of negotiating with the unions isn't going to work quick enough. Now exploring the idea of counties establishing wastewater improvement districts. CM Waters-Suggests having a separate meeting just on HSAC Legislative Package. CM Chock-recommends we come back for another meeting to figure out the deadlines and who is going to be introducing any bills.