2011-04-27 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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of the mitigation for the Ane Keohokalole Highway. And so that is probably a great extent as to why it was reclassified at $100 because it’s going to be basically run as a non-profit and it’s for archeological preserve. Which is why you always have to be careful about what you say to newspapers. MS. GARSON: Can we get back to the agenda. I need to focus you back. MS. LEITHEAD-TODD: I went off message. MS. WONG: Yes, and I was just about to pull you back in. Back to the March 2 letter. MR. KUROHARA: Are you done with me then? Is there any more questions in regard to ag and energy commissions? I think that’s what I’m here to address. MS. WONG: Any further on that? I think we’re good on that. I covered all of my questions. MR. KUROHARA: Anything else for R&D in general? MS. WONG: None. Thank you. MR. KUROHARA: Thank you very much. MS. WONG: To clarify, Bobby, you said the department isn’t sure whether the recommendations of the steering committee or the action committee or both? MS. LEITHEAD-TODD: Yes. MS. WONG: And your response is yes. Either/or or both. Initially, our subcommittee, after meeting with you, I think it was October last year, we took it to consider terminating the action committee. And then we came and just discussion, we talked about, what about deleting both of them. And then well, if we’re going to delete both of them why not consider each individually. So your answer was, your question was clarified, and your answerswere very detailed. MS. LEITHEAD-TODD: I tried to address both situations. MS. WONG: Yeah, very well. And I got the impression at that initial meeting that it was a very financially significant deal if we terminated the action committees. And now in reading this, it seems like MS. LEITHEAD-TODD: We’ve scaled it back. We eliminated all the contracts because the action committee used to operate with hiring a recorder to take the minutes. And we used to hire community liaisons to do a lot of the leg work. We cancelled all of those contracts or rather as contracts came to a close, we did not hire. And we’re in the process of converting. So what we’re doing is trying to get the action committee members to be responsible for taking the minutes and producing the minutes. We’re basically taking what was a big cost item, cause it was running us about $25,000 per action committee in the past to do this. So we’ve cut that cost out and we’re asking the 24