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o Champion cross-agency and multiple stakeholder engagement in addressing life cycle issues of waste and wastewater management. Have joint commission meeting(s). Request presentations by other departments (e.g. HDOH, HDOT). (Co-lead Olson). o Become involved in the Mayor’s sustainability planning process. Chair Adams said she has been trying to catch up from an informational standpoint with what other groups have been doing relative to waste management life cycles. Commissioner Burns o Enhance the availability and capacity of transfer stations to ensure residents can effectively manage waste and reduce the likelihood of waste being improperly or illegally disposed. (No report/Excused from meeting) Commissioner Cardwell o Support efforts on sustainable island-wide residential food waste composting: i. Support identification of barriers and solutions with stakeholders. ii. Pilot scalable, safe and cost-effective processes to collect and convert food waste and distribute valuable compost to users. (No report) Commissioner Fulton o Support public-private comprehensive sewage management for the Keauhou area. o Recommend Council allow DEM to evaluate laterals to WWTP for Kailua Bay. o DEM to identify priorities for moving its infrastructure at risk of sea level rise in the Kona area (indeed all areas) as part of county sustainability/climate planning efforts. (No report) Vice Chair Gaffney o Support public-private sustainability planning in the Keahole area, particularly to achieve sustainable water treatment for reuse. o Refocus efforts at Kealakehe WWTP to recover and use R-1 water locally. Vice Chair Gaffney referenced a document that he provided from the Hawaii Department of Health on what you can and cannot do with regard to recycled water, which includes all of the definitions. He wanted that to be accessible because we need to start thinking about using this stuff. If the Kealakehe Wastewater Treatment Plant is going to complete its R-1 process or if the distribution of R-2 water becomes possible, people need to understand what the parameters are with regard to that. It’s a long document but it’snicely broken up, and it’s easy to find things in the table of contents. With regardto the things he has been working on we’re a lot closer to sewering Honokhau Small Boat Harbor, and have the support of the highest levels in the Department of Land and Natural Resources. We are reaching out to legislators and preparing also to reach out to senators and members of Congress to be sure that the additional money that is necessary to sewer Honokhau becomes available from any infrastructure program to come out of Congress. One update is that State Rep. Nicole Lowen managed to get an allocation of funds for sewering Honokhau. It’s looking like a $7 million project to sewer the 4