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the City and County of Honolulu, because it is an essential tool to stopping the infiltration of salt water, which is a problem in any recycling system. Commissioner McIntosh asked whether it would be better to divide the motion, or did he think an all-encompassing motion is better? How would it affect the Council if they were to read a large request, would that discourage them from moving on it or if they see three separate items, if they might pick one and move on that? Chair Adams said it’s kind of a package deal, and it’s advice, which they can pick and choose anyway, and it’s more efficient to put them together. Vice Chair Gaffney agreed with Chair Adams, and said that when the Council members write the legislation that we hope comes out of this recommendation, there will be Corporation Counsel looking over their shoulder and making sure what they are writing is legal. The ordinance is already available to our Corporation Counsel, and Corporation Counsel has already been asked to look at the appropriate ordinance to allow laterals to be inspected, and to require property owners to fix leaking laterals. This goes through a big process before the Council considers it andhe considers itbetter as a full package. Chair Adams spoke in support of the three-part motion. We should be looking at not calling our operations waste management, it should be resource management. Looking at our water and the resources we can extract from wastewater is our goal, it’s the zero waste goal. So this is an appropriate approach. It’s going to be a lot of detail to work out and a lot of compromises, but the Vice Chair’s motion captures what we want to see, agronomic principles, basically use life cycle thinking, and do it the best way possible. So it meets the spirit of what we have been talking about. The salt water intrusion problem has been an issue since the plant opened, Commissioner Olson said. He was there on opening day and he was told by the people who are running the plant that this problem exists, and it has been there since day one. Vote: The motion was approved by a roll call vote: Ayes 7 (Adams, Cardwell, Fulton, Gaffney, McIntosh, Olson, Robinson); Noes 0; Absent 2 (Burns, Hoopii). Chair Adams said a letter would be sent to the Department and to the Councilto make those recommendations. c. Director’s Informational Report. (Note: this month’s report and the responses to requests for update are being delivered verbally). i. Legislative update –No updates except Comm. 378. See agenda item 6a, pages 10-17. ii. Requests for updates: The commissioners have requested informational updates on the following: 22