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when considering uses moving forward. We’re kind of on the outskirts of the boundaries, but we are part of it so. That’s all I was going to say. GADDIS: Yeah, thank you very much. Alright well, we can move on to business of the agency. BUSINESS OF AGENCY The Agency took this item up at 2:20 p.m. with approximately 9 members of the public in attendance. 1. Review and discussion regarding bills of the 2019 legislative session that involve or pertain to properties within the Banyan Drive redevelopment area. At this time, Mr. Alex Roy provided an update to the four bills of the legislative session. ROY: The first one we’re going to talk about is pretty quick. This is the one that appropriated six million dollars to demolish Uncle Billy’s. It doesn’t appear to be moving. I don’t think it’s any longer in process. There was some discussion off-handed that it’s kind of folded into other potential bills relating to leases where leaseholders would be provided reductions in their leases to do demolition, so, but at this time I think SB1142 is no longer. DELIMA: Can I? I know the bill is no longer, but in terms of the conference finance budget reports, is it on any, sorry, is the appropriations on any of the conference committee recommendations for funding under DLNR? ROY: I’d have to check on that. DELIMA: Yeah, cause sometimes they don’t, they use the bills as a tool for, a vehicle, I guess they use the term, a vehicle for identifying projects but once they have identified the amount of money then each of the Ways and Means and the House Finance Committee then determines whether they gonna fold it into the budget. So just because the bill has not moved doesn’t mean the appropriation per se is dead. ROY: Yeah. Yep. House Bill 910, this is the one that directed the State Office of Planning to conduct infrastructure, the studies, on Banyan Drive. It, there has, there was no changes. It passed at second reading as amended for the senate draft one and it’s referred to the Ways and Means, but again no changes so it’s still being pushed forth and that would include studies that would allow us to also hopefully do the EIS along with. But again, this is under the Office of Planning to direct those infrastructure studies and studies. They were against it to remind you guys, OP was pretty adamantly against it because they feel like they haven’t been part of this in the past and they thought they weren’t really the agency to actually pursue this. It’d be more so either the county or DLNR. Senate Bill 914. This is the one that required DLNR to allocate ten percent of the revenue collected within the redevelopment area to the BDHRA. It does allow kind of specific monies for conducting Chapter 343, the EIS that we’re all kind of hoping to get. You know, with the idea Page 5 of 9 Banyan Drive Hawaiʽi Redevelopment Agency March 27, 2019 Minutes