2013-01-10 Windward Transcript PD Rule 12

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amendment the Council could decide how that money would get spent; and they would appropriate it in the budget. So prior expenditures have been, they used some of the money to combine, I think, with fuel tax money so they could pave or repave Opihikao Road. Some of that money got used to repave Pahoa Road, right in Pahoa Village Road. About $700,000 went to expand the new transfer station in Pahoa. Cause they had enough money through CIP to do, I think, two chutes, and the $700,000 allowed them to do three chutes. So, and then some of the money has been spent for the Council offices in Pahoa. Some of the money has been spent in Parks and Recreation accounts. And all of this has been through direction of the County Council as to how those monies would be spent. The Department doesn’t decide how the money gets spent. It comes through the County Council. And recently we’ve had a number of claims made, that the last time we looked at it it adds up to approximately $4.5 million in claims for relocation. The funding at the beginning of this fiscal year was about $2.1 million, so the request for relocation exceeded the amount of money. And also, you know, frankly, it kind of overwhelmed the Department in terms of just the sheer number. Because from the time the fund was originally set up through this year, I think we only dealt with by maybe a total of five or six relocation requests. And the last one I think was, that had been processed was probably Mr. Malesek which was, I’m trying to remember if it was 2004 or 2005, you know, somewhere in there, I can’t remember the exact date. But it had been a while before anybody had actually made a claim. And so suddenly, partially because of publicity, we suddenly had a whole slew. And I think the drilling exacerbated it cause people were being, feeling overwhelmed by the amount of noise being generated. AU: So do you know the dollar amount that we’re at? I know it doesn’t pertain to us, but I’m just curious. LEITHEAD TODD: The last time I saw we had 2.1, they’re both, 2.1 in the Asset and 2.1 in the Royalty. We should have additional revenues coming in, but we frequently see a time lag between the time the State receives the royalty money and they cut us a check. But we were anticipating at going forward, particularly because PGV is back up. Well, they had for a period of time, you know, some of their production had been down, and their production is back up. We anticipate that we would probably receive in the neighborhood of between $500,000 to $700,000; and we’re hoping that it’s closer to the $700,000 per year that would be additional revenues. AU: Okay, thank you for that information, Madam Director. ARAI: Mr. Chairman? AU: Yes. ARAI: I just want to draw your attention again to our Director’s October 3, 2012 letter. I just want to make sure you’re aware that she does set forth a recommendation to the Commission for its consideration. So I just wanted to point you to that recommendation. AU: Okay. So on behalf of the Commission, I’d like to give direction to Madam Director to draft something to amend Rule 12 to implement Condition 49. If the Commissioners are okay with that, that’s what I’d recommend to the Planning Commission. 11 EXHIBIT D