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<br />But, we will definitely look into it and if that’s something, if that’s an avenue that, you know,
<br />maybe Planning Department can, you know, explore, then maybe we can use it to expedite the
<br />process. That’s definitely something we’d, we could consider and look into.
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<br />HENKEL: I appreciate that. Thank you.
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<br />KANUHA: One more comment, Mr. Chairman. The difficult we have, the Planning
<br />Department has, is that the asset funds are under our Department. So, when the Commission
<br />overrode the claims adjuster findings that this particular claim didn’t meet the requirements of,
<br />of the statute—whether you agree with him or not—and when the, and when the Commission
<br />overruled that recommendation and then asked us to work with the Applicants to try and come
<br />up with a submittal that would be more compliant with what the claims adjuster’s
<br />recommendation did not find to be, it puts us in a, you know, tough situation because we are the
<br />administrators of the funds, which is why the process is set up such that we should be arm’s
<br />length from everything. You know, it’s—it’s like we’re a bank and you guys are the credit
<br />committee and you’re saying, and we’re saying we don’t think this, you know, a separate body
<br />says we don’t think this qualifies, and maybe the Board of Director of the bank, and you say,
<br />well, you know, we don’t, we don’t think that is, you know, that complies. That’s a, that’s why
<br />we, we try to figure out a way how to work this, but the more we did, the more, the more I found
<br />that it was really putting us into a conflicting situation since. And, that’s why it’s set up such
<br />that there’s the claims adjuster, you folks do that, and, you know, once the, once the claim is
<br />gone, it’s all good to go through procurement. I mean, we don’t have anything to do with the
<br />whole procurement because, component because we are the ones who have the funds. That’s
<br />the, that’s a difficulty we had with this particular one, and I think this should illustrate the
<br />difficulty we’re gonna have if the recommendation of the claims adjuster is, you know, not
<br />followed because that’s the only, you know, I think protection we all have that these funds are
<br />being used in a correct manner.
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<br />And, it’d be different if these funds came from, you know, just the County’s general account or
<br />somebody else’s account, but those funds are sitting in, in our Department.
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<br />PATEL: If I can, Mr. Chair, just to follow up with Mr. Brilhante regarding Commissioner
<br />Henkel’s question about the emergency declaration. You mentioned earlier that the Mayor’s
<br />RFP was running into some issues. Does that mean then that the emergency declaration wasn’t
<br />used in the Mayor’s RFP up until this point as well?
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<br />BRILHANTE: Correct, that’s my understanding.
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<br />HEAUKULANI: Commissioners, anything further? For staff? For Director Kanuha? For Mr.
<br />Brilhante? All right, I’m going to open this up—thank you, Bill, appreciate it. I’m going to
<br />open this up to public testimony. We’ve got eight people signed up to testify. I’d like the first
<br />four—Tom Travis, Cory Harden, Geoff--Geoff Shaw, and Palikapu Dedman—to please come up
<br />to the table. Remain standing for just a second while we swear you in. If you could all raise
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