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a new substation in Mala, and Police with a substation in HOVE in the Ka`u District I know
<br /> that's not in your particular regions but relevant. And then MTA for example looking at hub and
<br /> spoke systems in general, and right now their focus is on Kona and Pahoa.
<br /> And that is what I have for presentation. I want to—before I hand it back to you, ChairI just
<br /> want to see if Director Kern has any more that he would like to add to this conversation.
<br /> KERN: Thanks, April. Aloha everybody, nice to see you all, Happy New Year. No, April, you
<br /> did a great job. So much information I can talk for days on many of these subjects. I think it'd
<br /> be most advantageous right now just to see what the Commission has to say on it. Again, very
<br /> comprehensive, and really appreciate all the work that you've put into that. So, happy to answer
<br /> any questions.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Thank you so much. That was really amazing to go through all that amount of
<br /> material in that time, unreal. Thank you. Commissioners, are there any questions?
<br /> Commissioner Yates.
<br /> YATES: Just so I'm understanding this correctly. So this is wonderful information, a lot of
<br /> information, and a lot of questions, of course, but I'm, I'm thinking that, based on all of the
<br /> information, that there's still a lot more to be gone through in order to really have concrete
<br /> answers to a lot of these questions like affordable housing and, you know, landscaping in
<br /> different areas and the time frame and, and so I'm thinking that there will be more coming up
<br /> before the Commission as you go through them, or as it comes available, I'm thinking, so that
<br /> it'd be kind of like a, kind of like maybe redundant we go over now and then later on we go over
<br /> it again. Because some of my questions were, you know, affordable housing, of course, is a big
<br /> deal, and I'mspecifically, for my concern is like fire because in Kohala we don't have any fire
<br /> hydrants that to speak of where, you know, close enough to homes, except for the newer
<br /> subdivisions. So I don't know if that's something we address, you know, at a particular time or
<br /> when they talk about it. And also, I'm also curious about cultural and historical preservation;
<br /> who's, who'll be overlooking that or will it, you know, as it comes up, then we talk about it?
<br /> And then I know about water, you know, our farmers here with the ditch being down, the farmers
<br /> here have no water for agriculture, so I'm not, I don't know what all has been done about that,
<br /> but I know it's a big concern for the farmers out here because, you know, we are a pretty big
<br /> farming community that all the people here they do, you know, they grow their vegetables and
<br /> everything, and they take it to market, but I believe they are having a difficult time because of
<br /> water—not in the last couple months because we've got rain, but other than that. So those are
<br /> some of my concerns about, you know, time frame and, you know, if people ask, we can, or who
<br /> should they talk to, or those kind of questions.
<br /> KERN: I'm happy to jump in here a little bit. So it's, you talk about time frame, it's quite tricky
<br /> because a lot of these plans within the CDP and General Plan they've been there, so they've
<br /> existed and these policies have existed, and so then it really comes down to, you know, the will
<br /> of the administration to push certain things forward, as well as the bandwidth and resources that
<br /> are available. So for example, like on our CIP, or capital improvement project, list of that April
<br /> did, we could have 180 million dollars' worth of projects on there at any given time, yet we
<br /> really only have the capacity to maybe do like a 40- or 50-million-dollar bond float. So then we
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