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regarding creating a website and discussing the community meeting. Rosalind Newlon indicated that creation of a website by the Action Committee would first need approval by the Planning Director. NEW BUSINESS: 3. REVIEW DRAFT LETTER FROM ACTION COMMITTEE REGARDING REQUEST FOR IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS (IAL) TO BE IDENTIFIED AND MAPPED - This agenda item was deferred until further research can be obtained. OLD BUSINESS: 4. ORIENTATION FOR NEW ACTION COMMITTEE MEMBERS Joe Carvalho asked if the AC members had any questions regarding the handouts he had provided on the subcommittee process and AC member expectations. Frank Cipriani said that it looks like it is his job is to recruit members for the agricultural subcommittee. Hermann Fernandez offered a list of the original agricultural subcommittee members. John Winter noted that at least one subcommittee member other than an AC member attends the AC meeting. 5. DISCUSS SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS The following subcommittee assignments were made: Agriculture - Frank Cipriani Infrastructure A - John Winter and Giovanna Gherardi Public Access - Joe Carvalho and Christopher MacKillop Infrastructure B - Susan Fischer Growth Management - Hermann Fernandez and John Winter Affordable Housing - Collin Kaholo Marlene Ching floating subcommittee member 6. NKCDP AC SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS : Pat Moore, HELCO administrator, reported on reliability for North Infrastructure B Kohala and said that he would be talking about that in more detail in the future and said that it is still a concern of theirs and that any routing is preliminary and would need to go through rights of way. Pat also informed the committee that the Public Utilities Commission has restarted the utilities long-range planning process called integrated resource planning (IRP), if the Commission would be selecting an Advisory Group and that a request to be on the Advisory Group must be submitted to the Commission within the time frame as noted in the Commissions order. Unlike past IRP planning where each electric utility had its own Advisory Group, there will be just one for HECO, HELCO, and MECO now. Expansion of geothermal and an undersea cable for electricity transmission are issues that will probably be considered in IRP. He referred to Docket 2012-0036. Hermann Fernandez asked if increasing the reliability meant a loop system. Pat said yes. John Winter asked about the location of the poles and Pat said it depends on how the easements are secured. 2