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different places to keep bringing new monitoring stuff to the table. So, not everything has had to
<br />go right through this particular body including the asset fund.
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<br />So I would confirm that this is an on-going process. The health study is a much more complex
<br />kind of issue because you’re looking at a number of different things, and it takes a, it’s not any
<br />particular scientist who walks and says I do central nervous system studies or I do anxiety studies
<br />or I do pulmonary work. And, finding that right collection or combination of people to do that,
<br />and to do it in a way that the community understands and gets it. So doing this health study in a
<br />community way is maybe as important as getting the good data out to begin with cause you
<br />could bring in a bunch of white coats and send them through the community and check, make
<br />checkboxes and take blood samples and, but that’s probably not the way this community wants
<br />to be engaged in the study, and we’re hoping to find some momentum in that particular area so
<br />that it can be done in a way that the community understands and gets the process and appreciates
<br />the work that’s being done. So that’s an element of this conversation. And there’s also a
<br />procurement element to it, which is a complex issue as well because County doesn’t often
<br />procure major health study pieces. So, how you go through that process and do so in a way that
<br />the advisory group really wanted us to have a process. They really wanted us to say, you know,
<br />this is an open book. We’re not going to pick a particular person because they, we know what
<br />they’re answers are, we know what their work has been. So, that’s a, that’s a challenge, that’s in
<br />the report. So understand that these are complex issues that are imbedded in the complexity of
<br />what a health study really looks like. So, that said, know that and I really welcome Clarysse’s
<br />wisdom and insight into this process, we’re moving in this direction and have been working on
<br />it, so please understand that it’s not, and the Mayor has his spurs imbedded in this process. Both
<br />of us feel it, and it’s not something that is going to not happen. But the truth is it really needs to
<br />happen right. This public money is not a small number. It’s in the well over, you know, it’s in
<br />the upper six figures probably when you start to put this together, and the outcome is important,
<br />and we need to make it, take that into account when we do and bring to you a, and to the claims
<br />adjuster, a process that makes sense economically and hits the bar that we’re trying to get to,
<br />so—and I would just add that, you know, the meta-study which has had a, you know, variety of
<br />people talking about it here, it’s a part of a really good study. It’s the part of what a study takes.
<br />Yes, they are bodies of information about H2S. They’re also whole series of studies that were
<br />done from different angles and different places in Iceland and in New Zealand and all around the
<br />country. And they all tell us something, but they’re all not the same studies. They don’t, they’re
<br />not done the same way, they’re not sampled the same way, they’re not structured the same way,
<br />and part of the meta study is to kind of break that down and look at ok, if you try to analyze
<br />those studies, what do you get out of each of them, critiquing each one for what it is and isn’t.
<br />And that will be an informative piece. We’re not waiting for the end of that to do this study, but
<br />it will be an informative piece and a contributing piece to the overall knowledge about what we
<br />know about the impacts of H2S, particularly, but other things related to geothermal in the
<br />community so. With that, glad to answer more questions.
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<br />ISHIBASHI: Commissioner Henkel.
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<br />HENKEL: Thanks, Jeff. I, you know, I really appreciate the Mayor’s commitment, and I think
<br />there’s an overall consensus that this study needs to be done, but it’s going to be incredibly
<br />expensive. I mean the things that we’ve got before us. These items probably would cover the
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