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that it’s, you know, necessary to complete the agency’s redevelopment plan. But unfortunately, no funds will be made until the county has to pony up the same $250 thousand for both fiscal year 2019-2020, and 2020-2021. So this passed the second reading as amended and does refer to the finance. There was no major changes on this one. This is the big one here, House Bill 1219. This designates redevelopment districts for any area of public lands so it’s a pretty general bill for the entire state. But within that, it designated the Waiākea Peninsula Redevelopment District. So that was specifically stated in the bill. One of the changes I noted, it designates the Planning Committee and changes that committee from a policy-making committee to an executive committee. So that’s kind of a big change. So if that, that gives the committee a little more power. So in this case the Waiākea Peninsula Redevelopment District Planning Committee would be formed and they would be following through under this bill’s requirements. Some of the other changes, they said it’s set some of the committee member choice parameters like not only will you have numbers from this island, it asks that three members be from a neighbor county, most likely O‘ahu. It sets conditions for the peninsula redevelopment district boundaries. A lot of this we knew already, but it just reset them in the bill. And then again this designates 50 percent of the revenue from public lands to the revolving fund for the Planning Committee, so it’s quite a bit. A new section was added to development of public lands and the redevelopment area. So the local redevelopment agency created and approved under this, this bill, may negotiate development agreements with developers. So it gives you a little more power to renegotiate some of those agreements as long as they follow the plan that was set forth by that committee. So the report was adopted, it passed second reading as amended and was referred to Ways and Means. I’d like to read, if you permit me here, a report I think this was Senate, the Senate report on this bill, and, just so everybody’s clear. It said, “Your committee finds that the state has a fiduciary duty to manage state lands in the best interests of the public by enhancing state revenues and promoting the social environmental and economic well being. The Banyan Drive Hawai‘i Redevelopment Authority, while well-intentioned, has been unable to accomplish it’s mandate to redevelop state lands on Banyan Drive. This measure, 1219 would replace the Banyan Drive Hawai‘i Redevelopment Authority with a new authority to allow for state funding and control of public lands and help support crucial economic growth and development in the Hilo area.” So I’m not sure what that means for all of us, but if this bill is passed it could mean some changes. A side note too, the bill, the ten percent and the fifty percent bill here, so 1219 and this previous 914, it’s not clear if both of these would be going through. And so, because that would be ten plus fifty, sixty percent. So it appears that hopefully one or the other would go through, either 1219 or 914, but it doesn’t seem that both would go through. But that’s just an assumption. So, nd that’s all I had for the bills right now and this was as of the 22, I checked just before the meeting. There was nothing new, no new reports, no new statements, and so now we’re just in a waiting game. So do you guys have any questions? GADDIS: Anybody have any questions on current legislative status? If not we can go ahead and move on to the next agenda item, which we’ve touched on already, by the way, in our statements from the public. Page 6 of 9 Banyan Drive Hawaiʽi Redevelopment Agency March 27, 2019 Minutes