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<br />designates 50 percent of the revenue from only the public lands into the district, into revolving
<br />fund to support this new planning committee. So the idea would be that the Waiākea Peninsula
<br />Redevelopment District Committee would replace the Banyan Drive Hawai‘i Redevelopment
<br />Agency. It would be made up of members from DLNR, from the, probably from O‘ahu, and here
<br />on Hawai‘i Island. As of this morning, or as of just a, I checked about 30 minutes ago, this is
<br />kind of the current status. So we see that for the past month its gone through, was adopted,
<br />passed the third reading, was returned from the Senate in its amended form, there was some
<br />disagreement, but the House has appointed conferees, as you can see Yamane, Luke are the co-
<br />chairs, Onishi, Todd, and McDermott are also on that. And the Senate received notice of that
<br />House conferees choice. Now the next steps, of course the Senate would pick its conferees and
<br />the bill would be scheduled for a committee meeting. So it’s unclear how fast that’s, everything
<br />is supposed to pretty much come to a head very, very quickly in the next week and I assume,
<br />maybe Chair could back me up on this, I think it’s supposed to be chosen by this Friday, they
<br />have to kind of wrap everything up.
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<br />GADDIS: Yeah, April 26 is basically the deadline. Conferees, they need about 24 hours notice, I
<br />think, given before they start meeting. But it moves at lightning speed at this stage, so yeah.
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<br />ROY: Yeah, so we could see some movement within this week and, and so by Monday we’ll
<br />probably know whether or not this is moving forward. So right now I put together at the advice
<br />of the Chair, I put together a letter. I think all members got a copy so I won’t read it, but really
<br />it’s just a support letter for House Bill 1219. One of the sections here, I said it has become
<br />apparent that the BDHRA is unable to garnish the necessary support for the redevelopment of
<br />primarily State-owned lands. So we are, the BDHRA finds that this offers the best chance to
<br />implement the redevelopment of the Waiākea peninsula. So I was putting it to the Agency to
<br />review this letter and, under advice of Chair, we were going to try to submit that as a last kind of
<br />ditch testimony.
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<br />GADDIS: And I’ll start off just with a real brief summation. So, at this stage, you know he
<br />mentioned what the general schedule is, but basically what we would do is this letter, assuming
<br />we were to give approval for it and support for it today, it would be immediately sent out to the
<br />relevant people on the House and as soon as the Senate Conference Committee people are
<br />named, that would get passed on to them. Because really, at this phase, like I mentioned earlier
<br />things move super fast so this is just going on the record for them if we do support this letter
<br />stating support from the Agency here that number one, we support the intent and structure of Bill
<br />1219, and then number two, we would commit to sunsetting our own agency as is required in the
<br />Bill. Now I wanna open it up for discussion first, just in general, and have anybody that wants to
<br />chime in, chime in or ask questions at this stage before we take any action on this letter that’s
<br />been drafted. Anyone? Go ahead, K.T.
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<br />CANNON-EGER: In paragraph three—pardon me. In paragraph three, Alex, the statement, the
<br />sentence that you read that BDHRA is unable to garnish the necessary support for the
<br />Redevelopment of primarily State-owned lands, I would suggest the insertion of one word
<br />between necessary and support and that word is financial. Thank you.
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