2012-10-04 Windward Transcript PD yagong & blas

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use.” Now this was written in 2001. I’m wondering if there have been any meetings discussed, discussing this with the community, or is this is the first one? KERN: You can pose that question and we could potentially answer it afterwards -. WAKELIN: Okay. KERN: But it’s not really a back-and-forth at this point. WAKELIN: Okay. So, also in that GRP it speaks about protection of noise by berms that could potentially be paid for by the Asset Fund. So there’s some lines in that permit that said that the Asset Fund could be used to mitigate noise. Now we know that noise is an issue that has been coming up a lot in the community. I’m concerned because obviously if a, if somebody recommends that they make some berms, which may or may not change the noise issue, then the money in the Asset Fund could be used for that, and then it’s not available for other things. So that also brings me to the question that I have around other projects, because clearly health study is important here. We are in agreement that we need a health study; and there are other projects also that need to be addressed. I do want to reiterate and stress the need for proper monitoring. Monitoring is something that has not been addressed properly, even though in the permits it clearly defines that there are situations that need to be complied with, but it’s not really addressing the problem. So that’s something that we need to take care of, and that is both for hydrogen sulfide and for noise. I think that’s all for now. Thank you. KERN: Thank you. Madam Director? LEITHEAD TODD: I shouldn’t say that, I haven’t had conversations with the community. But I do know that under the prior administration, the administrative assistant Andy Levin had had some conversations with the community and had led to some conversations with me at that point because I was in a prior capacity the Deputy Corporation Counsel assigned to the Planning Department. But those conversations were actually geared more towards community benefits, and not so much the Asset Fund per se, but it was more targeted at the Royalty Fund. And to some extent those conversations ended up with the amendments that were made by the County Council to the Royalty Fund to create community benefits. Cause what was going on was that people in the community were seeing that the money was sitting there and, you know, it wasn’t being utilized for anything. And so from my understanding from Andy Levin was that there was community interest in utilizing those funds to benefit projects in the community. And those were the only conversations that I’m aware of in, and I’d say, the last ten years that have occurred over the use of the funds. And it resulted in that amendment where some of that money in the Royalty Fund, not the Asset Fund but the Royalty Fund, was utilized for things like your transfer station and repaving of certain roads, improvements in the parks. And that was my understanding from conversations with Mr. Levin, was to some extent initiated by the community coming to the administration. And that may have ended up percolating to the County Council, cause I don’t know exactly the background of that amendment. But that’s the extent of the discussions that I’m aware of. WAKELIN: Thank you. May I respond with another question? KERN: May you what? 19 EXHIBIT C