2022-05-05 Windward Exh C (Item 3 County Council Initiated PL-CCI-2022-001)

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So, I know that was a lot of information and again we can get into each of the proposed recommendations, later on. But, right now Councilmember Kimball and Mr. Morin and have been graciously made their time available to provide some more information on the context of the bill, and the reason for it. So, she's asked to provide a presentation and then from there when we get into the discussion or really the next steps are the Planning Commissions may approve all, some, or none of the Directors suggested recommendations, and this includes kind of the updated recommendations based on the proposed changes from the Councilmember. The Commissions may also offer their own revisions to the bill and ultimately both the Windward and Leeward Planning Commission's recommendations will be forwarded separately, but at the same time to the County Council for their consideration and decision. So, in two weeks we'll be having the same presentation and discussion with the Leeward Planning Commission and once we've got recommendations from both bodies, we will package those and send those up to the County Council for consideration on Bill 120. With that I will end my presentation here and happy to answer any questions, either now or when appropriate. AU: Thank you for that presentation, Mr. Kay, that was a lot of information, thank you very much. So, at this point I would like to call Councilwoman Kimball and Mr. Morin on, but I do have to swear you in. How about we take your presentation first and then we can take it to the Commissioners for questions. So, can both of you please raise your right hand so I can swear you. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Windward Commission? KIMBALL: I do. MORIN: I do. AU: So, before you speak just,please state your name and the town you live in. You may go ahead, thank you. KIMBALL: Good morning, my name is Heather Kimball. I am the County Councilmember from District 1 and I live in Papa`ikou. I just want to say mahalo to you Chair Au and all the members of the Commission for joining mein this sausage making. This is what we're doing today. I'm not sure if any of you have ever had the opportunity to go through legislation like this, but as you can see it's an evolution and I'm grateful for your time today to help us improve the language of the bill and bring more thoughts, more ideas to the concept. Before I go into it a little more, Dean I just wanted to say mahalo to you and for all your service and leadership with the Commission. I'm sure you'll be greatly missed here. So, I just wanted to take a moment what we're going to do. I'm just going to give a little context hereabout the bill. I'm not going to go into the nitty gritty as Christian just did an amazing job of going over all of the language. Thank you, Christian it's a pleasure to work with you and then I'm going to pass it over to Noel Morin, who is here from the Big Island Electric Vehicle Association. To give us just a little bit of the lay of the land in terms of what the market is like right now for EVs, what the charging situation is and in particular, which I think will be of 10 EXHIBIT C