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Discussion: Vice Chair Gaffney proposed a correction to page 12: “Commissioner Olson said that we did give them away over several periods of time. The interesting thing is that they're far more successful over here on the \[west\] wet side as opposed to on the dry side.” Restatement of motion, and second: Commissioner Olson made a motion, to which Vice Chair Gaffney seconded, to approve the minutes of January 26, 2022, as amended. The motion was approved. Ayes 6 (Adams, Burns, Fulton, Gaffney, McIntosh; Olson); Absent 3 (Cardwell, Hoopii, Robinson). 3. STATEMENT FROM THE CHAIR Welcome to another crazy year, Chair Adams said. Do the best we can to get through it, and she just encourages everybody to be as resilient as they can be to the constantly changing situations that we deal with. 4. PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON ITEMS ON THE AGENDA (None) 5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS a. Discussion of 2022 EMC Priorities – Each commissioner to state priorities for 3 2022. Chair Adams said she is renewing priorities for each of us individually as commissioners, and we are going to try to make an effort to get some advancement on issues to the Commission on informational items. Be thinking offline on how we can better help DEM and the Council to manage the environment. For these items we had set up last time, she asked for any additions or corrections and we’ll open it again. If there are any new items or some old ones that you feel like you've succeeded or really wasn't that big of a priority, please let me know. Anyone have any comments at this time? Vice Chair Gaffney said there are three areas that he has been working on in his district, and one of those is getting Honokōhau Harbor sewered. And he just wanted to relay to the group that process is moving fairly well at the state level. It's a state process, and the money seems to be available. The engineering is under way. The other thing he was interested in is the idea of being able to move Kealakehe Wastewater Treatment Plant by the ag park at the bottom of Ka‘iminani Drive. There is the leased ag park, but there is also hundreds and hundreds of acres of ag land around the ag park for future expansion. There are about 400 acres land which are also zoned to agriculture. It's an obvious opportunity to distribute our R-1 water. He also recently learned that the idea of connecting the wastewater treatment for R-1 distribution to the ag park is no longer a priority of the administration. It was of a previous administration. And he will continue to push because it's just so logical that if we're producing tons of R-1 water and 3 EMC draft priorities: http://records.hawaiicounty.gov/weblink/DocView.aspx?dbid=1&id=114388 2