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Mr. Wiseman: <br />Mr. Saito: <br />Mr. Wiseman: <br />Mr. Saito: <br />The ultimate benefit...result is to benefit the environment or the <br />state... <br />And assist the County in transforming it's fleet to zero emissions. <br />To cap the carbon emissions. Which are the highest... <br />And to use the new statute at 144 along with current state <br />procurement statutes that are out there which... What we want it <br />to do is find a way to expedite and reduce the administrative work <br />by streamlining coming to an agreement on what and how things <br />should be acquired... along with the fueling and charging <br />infrastructure. So when people say electric vehicle, you also need <br />a charging station. But the charging station also needs... With <br />true greenhouse gas zero emissions would need to be charged or <br />energized via renewable energy source. So like all government <br />agencies, we don't have a lot of capital lying around so...we want <br />to find a way in what would be needed to actually engage third <br />party financing and take advantage of that. <br />Mr. Wiseman: And I assume there were none or only a few, if any, climate <br />change tonight is there? <br />Correct. <br />Good. <br />Mr. Saito: <br />Mr. Wiseman: <br />Mr. Saito: <br />Mr. Heintz: <br />Mr. Saito: <br />Yeah. And it wasn't just our...it wasn't just the State of <br />Hawai`i...there were six other municipalities that were also <br />discussing and reviewing...solving their problems toward <br />mobility...clean mobility. And I use the word mobility cause <br />it...it's not only vehicles but it's electric scooters, electric bikes, <br />shared use of those assets. And also keeping in mind social equity <br />because many of these vehicles and technology aren't accessible to <br />low and middle income families so we're also taking a look at that. <br />So this was like a public education conference. Were they <br />promoting particular products or technologies of their own...that <br />they were advocating that...no...but what it was...was an <br />educational project that's open to people who are trying to... <br />You had to apply to participate in this workshop? It's called a <br />mobility innovation lab workshop. And so it's to get different <br />people from different walks of life, from different cities, from <br />different situations and each one had their major topic. Ours was a <br />8 <br />