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underwater. So they wasted $200 million designing something that is going to be underwater anyway. It goes back to not having a roadmap and a plan of what the entire community needs to do to become cohesive. If you want to look at it, you have to raise the roadway, you have to raise everything up to be successful. Chair Adams said the issue of sea level rise and the impact on all our facilities is a big one. But we could perhaps agendize that for another meeting. Commissioner Burns said it’s good to mention how complex it is to assess sea level rise for various buildings or infrastructure. We recently looked at vulnerability and studies about areas of the coastline that are susceptible to flooding will be available to the public. Chair Adams agreed it is a complex issue and there may be a good time when it's ripe for us to hear about, and we can have Commissioner Burns lead the discussion. On the compacting greenwaste trailers, compactors were taken out of trailers because they add weight, and you are so weight-limited on the highways, so you'll be hauling all that dead weight of the compactor on each trailer, and that's the reason for getting away with the compactors with the trailers. Chair Adams summarized that Director Mansour said the compactors in the trailers are basically dead weight. And so they took them out in order to be able to carry more mass, both for solid waste and green waste. Commissioner Olson noted that at one point, the compactors were stationary. They simply compacted the trailer load, and then the compactor remained on site. Director Mansour said, the good thing is if we go to decentralized compost, we're going to be shredding the green waste on site, and they do not need to be hauled. On the topic of closure notifications, Ms. Berrig said she forwarded a press release that had just come out, and there are banners, apparently, at the transfer stations. She was concerned that the Vice Chair did not receive any notifications. Chair Adams said that if anybody wants a specific topic on the agenda, pass it on to the Secretary as well as the Chair. But we'll talk about this next agenda item. If you have a topic, it will be for the Vice Chair to manage for the March 16 meeting. c. Continuing attempts to re-schedule the Kai Ala Partners LLC appeal of the Director’s decision to bill two wastewater accounts for TMK (3) 7-5-019:018 and (3) 7-5- 019:026. Chair Adams asked the Secretary to talk about some of the frustrations or possibilities in rescheduling the contested case hearing. Fortunately, the Appellants have been amenable to rescheduling and have a fairly schedule, but we are having challenges getting more than five 14