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<br />KAMI: Good morning Commissioners-- <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: You can— <br /> <br />KAMI: I’m Clarysse— <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Ok—raise your right hand— <br /> <br />KAMI: Oh— <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: --first before we start. Wait for your partner. Ok, Jeff. Do you swear and confirm <br />to tell the truth before the Windward Planning Commission over this matter? <br /> <br />MELROSE: We do. <br /> <br />KAMI: I do. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Ok, thank you. <br /> <br />KAMI: I’m Clarysse Kami from the Mayor’s office and I just want to say a couple things and <br />then I’m going to hand the mike over to Jeff Melrose because he has the technical details, but I <br />just want to reaffirm the Mayor’s commitment to not only what’s before you today, before, <br />projects that are before you today, but also the health study. And in his remarks of last month, he <br />talked about the fact that these four pieces are just the first four pieces that we’re going to bring <br />before the Commission and right now, we are working on the details of getting the RFP together <br />for the health study. We certainly heard the community’s concerns and I guess, you know, <br />request for urgent action on the health study, and we’re acting on it now. Thank you. <br /> <br />MELROSE: I would just reaffirm what she said. I don’t think there’s ever been an intention to <br />slow down or not do or somehow interfere with that process. There were about seven <br />recommendations in the health study but then working groups report on the health issue, and so <br />what we did first was to pick the ones we knew we could get off quickly, that they were already <br />work prepared for and we could move them quickly and, frankly, to get them through this <br />process, which is one that really hadn’t been exercised before, the claims adjuster process. So <br />we’ve learned a lot in just the last thirty days in terms of how this process works and what kinds <br />of expectations a claims adjuster has, and I will tell you, over the last thirty days, that’s been a lot <br />of credit to the Planning Department for expediting that conversation, but the adjuster played a <br />very, I think, a fiduciary role in this conversation. They did not simply nod at what we handed <br />them. They actually took us apart. We spent a lot of time trying to get the right numbers and get <br />the details down. So we can expect that same kind of a conversation when we take in a much <br />larger, much more complex health study. And now we have a better feel for that. So, understand <br />that these four steps are the ones that we know we can expedite and move forward with. Some <br />of them are already moving before this process, some of what the Darryl Oliveira at Civil <br />Defense was doing was actually just responding to these requirements to finding money in <br />7 <br />EXHIBIT F <br /> <br /> <br />