2016-03-03 Hearing Transcript - Update Puna Pono Alliance et al GAF Claim

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KANUHA: That’s right. But, the—the claims adjuster is contracted, well we get the claims adjuster through procurement, you know. We have to say this is what we’re looking for these are what his requirements are and whoever we select has to be off of that list and all of that stuff. DEDMAN: So, he’s not a County employee? He’s a hired contractor? KANUHA: The County employee is the person that reviews the RFP to determine whether or not it meets the procurement requirements and all of that stuff. That’s—that’s what they do in here. SHAW: I mean getting into more specifics, getting back to his initial objections, what were those initial objections? That would be on the record somewhere, wouldn’t it? HEAUKULANI: That is part of the record, and, you know, I don’t want to cut off this discussion ‘cause I think these are questions that everyone in the room is interested, but I, we just can’t sit here all day and have a question and answer session. That’s part of the record. It was th fully briefed and fully addressed. You can pull the transcripts of the March 5, 2015 hearing, and you’ll understand what the position is. I had a question, though. Mr. Travis, thank you, sir, for your written summary. I appreciate it. I really appreciate you bringing to this Commission’s attention Mr. Melrose’s comments to the joint fact finding workshop in March 2014. I wanted to ask you—I remember, and I might not be pronouncing the name right. I remember Professor Edelstein? Edelstein. TRAVIS: He’s the person, yes. HEAUKULANI: But, I wanted to ask you about Dr. Kaye Kilburn. I don’t think I’ve heard that name, and that’s— TRAVIS: —He— ARAI/HATA-FINLEY – Microphone. TRAVIS: He, as I understand the history, and I was part of it, but sometimes memory doesn’t serve, there was a bill passed by the County Council to do a health study in 2012, I think it was about the July time frame. And, the Mayor—that bill was passed by the County Council. The contents of that bill were to do a health study that would have been done by Dr. Kilburn. It was proposed by the, by Puna Pono Alliance to the County Council, and the County Council said okay, go ahead and do this health study. The Mayor subsequently vetoed that and said that the County Council was using the wrong funds; that the correct fund to be used for the geothermal health study should be the Geothermal Asset Fund, rather than the Geothermal Community Improvement Fund. 15 EXHIBIT E