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HCHA meeting March 2, 2021 <br />so far, include a buyout as part of their recovery. I want to be clear that that <br />includes people who only are looking for buyout as well as those who are <br />considering a buyout in addition to possibly returning based on access to roads, <br />ability to restore a farm, financial resources to do so, right, those are all things <br />that we will [inaudible] out but among that, right, there's a diversity of voices, <br />right, and we know that's a fact but we take it as one early indicator that there <br />is strong interest in a buyout as a solution and I think our team receives calls and <br />inquiries about it, I know the council members presenting the district also do as <br />well. I also want to call out that we ask within that check all that apply question, <br />whether you would like regain access and redevelop a home and also whether <br />you would like to regain access and redevelop a farm, and those numbers are <br />about 27 percent, right, and so very early read out but because you did ask we <br />wanted to provide some indication of where we are five days into the process. <br />We're excited about the early interest and I think once we close out the survey <br />by March 26th which we encourage everyone to, who received it to respond <br />too, property owners and impacted renters, we'd be happy to come back and <br />brief the community about the findings but also this agency and the council. <br />Kern: And just to add a little bit to that, I thought the survey component was <br />really critical one for data collection really truly get the feel of what's going on <br />out there and so while we mailed out the survey to everybody we're going to <br />be doing PSAs, Public Service Announcements, we're got QR codes, you can <br />call and somebody, staff will go through it with you, we're out there in Puna <br />doing an event we'll have it there too, so really the concept around it was to <br />make it as broad reaching as possible even to the point of, I heard it on the <br />radio, didn't you have an effect, like you should probably check in to that and <br />it's on the website so this I felt was just as far as public outreach was really, really <br />critical, we didn't want people coming back and saying, survey?, what survey. <br />We'll still have a few of those cause it's inevitable but really trying to put out <br />there in all the ways, so from the DR Team as well as the Mayor's Office working <br />on all these efforts together it's been, it's been really, really great. <br />Kimball: Thank you for that, I think this is going to be a really interesting case <br />study about communications and COVID times because you have a known <br />number of people that should get this information and then ultimately you'll <br />have a known number that respond within that timeframe and the mechanism <br />by which they responded and I think that will be useful to all of us in terms of <br />understanding how to do public communication and I do want to say, I <br />appreciate, first of all that the statistics that you've given are probably, it should <br />be taken with a heavy spoonful of salt not just a grain just because there's <br />probably folks that are interested in the buyout that are gonna jump on this a <br />little bit sooner than maybe the rest of the public so we'll take that with a grain <br />of salt. I also just wanted to acknowledge that when we had the discussion <br />about the survey in Council, we talked about being really careful about the <br />Page 13 of 19 <br />