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MS. O’HARA: <br />All buses. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />So, is it something like required that all commercial, would that <br />include school buses? I guess. They’re Roberts or something. All commercial buses <br />purchased for use in the County of Hawai‘i come with a mandatory trade-in provision. <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />The problem with that is that the term bus is very general. You could be <br />talking handicapped van versus a 66-passenger school bus. So, I think it needs a little <br />better definition then just bus. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />So would it be commercial passenger, commercial vehicles <br />designed to accommodate 15 people or more or something like that? Because it seems <br />to me the smallest vans that most of tour companies use are 15-passenger van. <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />They have the 24-passenger bus. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />Yeah, but the smallest one is 15. And I’m not even sure that this <br />was really what he was talking about, those smaller vans. It’s the big ones. So the big <br />ones are 40, aren’t they? If we’re talking about defining, now is the time we can define. <br />Again this is the draft so we can fine tune it. So if we want to say <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />Buses that accommodate more than 40 passengers. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />40 passengers or more for use in the County of Hawai‘i? <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />When registered for use in the County of Hawai‘i must demonstrate they <br />have a <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />Trade in provision? <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />But this is something, excuse me, discussion wise, this is something that <br />would need to be a change in code? <br />MS. GARSON: <br />It would likely. And again, I’m not sure that your commission <br />necessarily has to be concerned with those types of details rather than big policy idea. <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />I’m not really sure who we are making the recommendation to just <br />generally making the recommendation to the County Council. <br />MS. GARSON: <br />Your report will go to the County Council and to the Mayor and be <br />published. So if it requires a Code change, it would be the County Council. <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />But it’s not specific to the department of motor vehicle? <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />Well, it wouldn’t be our responsibility to figure out who is going to do <br />it. It’s more like how we want to present it. Are we presenting it when we’re saying <br />these are things for the Real Property Tax Division or these are just general? <br />37 <br /> <br />