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Director Mansour said the $100,000 is just for educational programs, it’s not per se just for that contract. We have a lot of work ahead of us from that part of the education. As Mr. Hayducsko said if you take away $50,000, that is limit us to do nothing, almost for the entire year to do any educational programs. So no, that definitely the $50,000 is dedicated to that study, and reflects it’s very close to you heart. You need it to be done because for us as a Department, the education along the entire island probably has more priority than just doing the report. The $100,000 is not going to take you anywhere, it’s a small amount of money. Chair Adams said we’re talking about bumping up your request for a budget byanother $50,000, and have it specific to conduct a study. Director Mansour said our hands our constrained. We get instructions about how to makethe budget. We get these requirements that we have stay within and sometimes we are not able to include projects that you would like to see in the budget, because we have that parameters that we have to set our budget for. But if you as a Commission can see something that is not in the budget, but you want it, then that’s where your obligation comes in, and you send a letter saying, add additional money because you firmly believe in that. Chair Adams restated the motion would be to request to the Council to add $50,000to the DEM budget dedicated to developing a template for conductinglife cycle assessments to evaluate our solid waste management programs and recycling programs. Vote: The motion was approved by roll call. Ayes: 8 (Adams, Cardwell, Fulton, Gaffney, Hoopii, Olson, McIntosh, Robinson); Nays 0. Absent: 1 (Burns) Motion carried.Following the vote, Chair Adams asked Commissioner Cardwell to take a shot at drafting a letter, and to get it in before May 18. Commissioner Cardwell said she would send a draft to Chair Adams, who would then distribute it. ii. Is DEM applying for any Hawaii County R&D Innovation grants for sustainable development? https://www.rd.hawaiicounty.gov/funding-grant- resources/r-d-innovation-grants Chair Adams said there was a question about whether the Department of Environmental Management was seeking an innovation grant from the County Department of Research and Development. The Chair spoke with Mr. Hayducsko the previous day and wanted to know more about the grants that vary in amounts. Are you working on getting grants, and which ones? Mr. Hayducsko said yes we are, and we are seeing if we are able to apply for those, so we are having internal discussion on that. It may apply to a couple of projects. We are short-funded for the electronic recycling programs, so we are seeing if it is a good fit. Sanne Berrig, Recycling Specialist, is working on a master recycler composting program. We are looking to see how that works out. Chair Adams had worked on that grant previously with Recycle Hawai‘i and they were successful in getting a $5,000 grant (which was ultimately returned). We are very interested in using the language they used and basically duplicating that effort, and maybe 15