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Commissioner McIntosh said that when he was on the Cost of Government Commission, it became apparent that when the County was doing things, they didn't have a vision of what they wanted to accomplish. That's what they need to have involved in planning and what they want to do. We have a good contractor we to work with, but unfortunately, the vision and the plan and the roadmap are not there, Director Mansour said. Wai‘ōhinu could be a good reload facility, but the challenge with that is you don't have enough distance to accumulate the queue or the traffic, because you got a kind of horseshoe type of turn going into the facility. It's a better facility from the geographic location and geology because it's flatter, and easier to construct than Ocean View, but Ocean View also has pros and cons. Any feedback from you would help us in determining that. It will trigger how we're going to fund it as well. We have got to continue working with the stakeholders and hopefully we may come to the resolution of how to move forward. 8. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS a. Follow up on action items determined today. Chair Adams asked if anyone wanted to follow up on questions for the next agenda. Vice Chair Gaffney wanted to discus the parallel timelines regarding the regional park. At the end of the day, R-1 water has value. And if the County is assuming they're getting R-1 water for free because the county has (unintelligible), then that's completely (unintelligible) the potential business model that comes (unintelligible) on water everywhere else in the country. We're aware that Kohanaiki is interested in buying R-1 water, whether or not that still (unintelligible) remains to be seen. But I think that the whole subject of R-1 water should be looked at again. And then the timeline for the park (unintelligible). (Audio was unclear) Chair Adams said we can talk some more about the concepts of composting and whether it makes sense to take some efforts to start looking harder at the decentralized composting model, as well as what can be done to further support and encourage home composting. Ms. Berrig last time had mentioned Kaua‘i has found that it's really cheap to buy everybody a big bucket that does composting like Earth Machine™ composters or some others. She is not necessarily endorsing that brand per se, but to support composting equipment could be cheaper than paying for the landfill of compost waste, if that's right for the next meeting Once the new Solid Waste Division Chief gets hired, the Chair would like to talk with that person about the Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan that we put together, as well as thoughts that EMC has had in this whole comprehensive planning better on how we can collect waste, preferably for reuse and recycle, but lastly for disposal, just so we can start working on him or her for issues that we think are important for solid waste. Director Mansour said he and DEM were very pleased with the candidates that were interviewed. They really did their research, and they understand our ISWMP. They made it a 12