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the rest, and has put forth the two million this year, fiscal year 2019, and then four million for the following. It's a pretty straight forward bill; there's no other information other than, that's it. It's for the demolition and removal of structures at Uncle Billy's. It has gone through the WTL Committee; Water, Transportation, Land Committee, and they've recommended passing it and the report from the Senators was adopted. Support for this, DLNR supports this. They're looking to move forward,just as we are here at the County, and they stated it's the only viable solution to the situation at this time regarding Uncle Billy's, so, so that's good. And then of course the County Mayor's Office also supports due to health and safety issues; they want to move forward on getting rid of that dilapidated structure. House Bill 1910. This one directs the State Office of Planning to conduct an infrastructure study of Banyan Drive. Now, this is going to include the condition of the infrastructure, for curb repairs, improvements, alterations to all the structures there on Banyan Drive, determine the barriers to timely redevelopment. That's a pretty broad statement. And then they've, they are asking to make recommendations regarding activities to reducing those barriers. So they're really putting a lot on Office of Planning to come up with a kind of an infrastructure study. Now, this kind of goes hand-in-hand with the studies that were done on the existing structures by DLNR previously, but this would include all infrastructure. DLNR has concerns; they believe it's not in the best interest to expend limited funds. They kind of go on to say since 2014 they've spent over half a million dollars from the, was it the, Special Land and Development Fund on consultant services dedicated to Banyan Drive. So they kind of feel that this is not really in the best interest for the BDHRA. OP just has concerns, really, in that they have not been part of this conversation or don't feel that they're a part of this conversation and that they are probably not the agency to take something on like this. The other thing to note is DLNR, and this is gonna come up again, is DLNR feels that this bill's not going to cover the privately owned infrastructure or the County- owned infrastructure. So, it would be only a part of the story if this were to pass. That the study OP would conduct would be on the State's kind of interest only and the County would have to kind of deal with the rest of it on our own. The Mayor's Office supports this because they believe the funds are needed to get the Environmental Assessment done. And then we did get a ILWU Local 142 supported that mainly, because of the construction and the availability of work for them at that, if this were to pass. It's a pretty general statement; they'd said it would hopefully lead to the economic well-being of Banyan Drive. That's understandable. As far as [H.B.] 910 is concerned, finance has recommended the measure be passed un-amended and it's moving forward. GADDIS: Sorry could you repeat that last ROY: That the finance, so FIN has recommended the measure be passed as un-amended. CANNON-EGER: And it's moving forward? ROY: Yeah, and so they're moving forward. This was as of like the 22nd I got, yeah so, yeah, as of a couple days ago this is the last I've seen in the Leg website as far as what's going on. Alright, State Bill number 914. This one requires DLNR to allocate ten percent of the revenues from those leased properties to the BDHRA. It appropriates funds to the BDHRA for conducting Page 3 of 15 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency February 27,2019 Minutes