2013-01-10 Windward Transcript PD Rule 12

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expenditures there have been from each and what rules have been in place for each expenditure. Thank you. AU: Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Thank you. So how are we going to take this? These are nonvoting matters, right? TORIGOE: As the Director said there’s no specific rule proposal to discuss. However, there are those two requests from the former Council people just asking for some direction it sounds like, well, from the testifiers. And maybe we should get from the Planning Director what she thinks about waiting for Mr. Adler’s study to be completed as well. It seems to be something that the testifiers are suggesting. AU: Yes. You know, I’d like to hear that and I’d like to see where Adler is at, where exactly he’s at. I mean you guys must have some kind of report from him, right? Well, maybe Mr. Melrose can come up and do that. Can you come up, Mr. Melrose, please. So the rest of you may be seated. Thank you very much. Thank you for your time. So Mr. Melrose, I need to swear you in. Can you raise your right hand. Do you affirm and swear to tell the truth in front of the Planning Commission today? MELROSE: I do. AU: Thank you. Please state your name and where you reside. MELROSE: My name is Jeff Melrose. I reside in Hilo. And I currently am a project development specialist in the Mayor’s office, and as the point of contract for Mr. Adler’s study. So, really I don’t know how to address the legal questions, and I’ll let the Planning Director deal with the sequence of this. But I’ll give you just an update. The administration believes that this is an important issue, that the development of health studies is an important outcome and is an important part of resolving and clarifying public policy going forward as it relates to geothermal. Getting a good public study, getting a study done that is done in the best possible way with the least amount of, kind of political or political science engagement in the process is an important outcome to make a good decision with. So the administration found a small amount of funds in the Department of Research and Development to fund what is called a joint fact-finding process. Science and public policy often pass each other in the night. And this is partly an effort to bring some clarity about what science is, would be appropriate, what the current issues are, what kind of priorities there are to study what. You have a limited amount of money, $2,000,000. Actually in the science study context it’s relatively small. How would you do that, how would you come up with the right kind of study using the right kind of information. So Mr. Adler is an internationally known complex problem solver and he was contracted. We are at arm’s length. He makes his own decisions. He has created, selected a joint fact-finding study group. It includes, I think at this point, about 12 or 13 people. It will grow. We have no impact on who those are. I believe Mr. Travis and Mr. Petricci are on that group. Its first meeting is Saturday morning. It’s primarily organizational by nature; and it will have a presentation both by a guest specialist from HVO and from PGV in terms of specific questions about operations and chemicals involved in that operation. The group includes a cross-section of epidemiologists, public health specialists, people who have been active in the community in a variety of different perspectives. And I think, you know, this is an important effort to try and get to the bottom of the matter. I’m very pleased that Mr. Petricci and Mr. Travis are willing to sit in this conversation, and as with all of the other members of it. So I expect 8 EXHIBIT D