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HEAUKULANL My strong suggestion, and thank you, Commissioner Ikeda. I appreciate your,
<br />your support. My strong suggestion and recommendation is that the Applicants, that we remand
<br />this to the Department, have the Applicants meet with the Department, have them structure the
<br />RFP, and then, I've been through that process before, you can structure that in a way so that the
<br />list of eligible candidates is relatively narrow. So, that's my strong recommendation, that we
<br />remand this to the Department, ask the Applicants to meet for purposes of structuring the RFP.
<br />PATEL: So, just to clarify, at this stage, though, we need to vote on the motion to reconsider
<br />before any other motion for further action is taken, yeah, so, Chair?
<br />MOSES: If there is no further discussion, staff, please take roll.
<br />KANUHA: Madam Chairman?
<br />MOSES: Yes.
<br />KANUHA: Can I have a moment here?
<br />MOSES: Yes.
<br />KANUHA: The awarding of funds from the Geothermal Asset Fund is kind of interesting for
<br />our Department because the sole recommendation that comes before the Commission is from the
<br />claims adjuster, you know, as you noticed, we don't provide any recommendation. The way the
<br />rules are structured, the claim, the claims adjuster is the only recommendation that the
<br />Commission has to consider. That being the case, it was, it was clear to us from the last vote,
<br />what the intentions and where the Commission wanted to go. When we get that kind of
<br />indication from the Commission, we support that decision, you know, hundred percent. In this
<br />particular instance, it should have, you know, we should have, made the Commission aware that
<br />there were some issues with this, with the action they took, but nevertheless, you know, that
<br />action was in response to the claims adjuster's recommendation and not necessarily the
<br />Department's.
<br />If the Commission goes ahead and remands this award back to the Department for us to work
<br />with the Applicants to perfect the, an RFP that will accomplish what they want to do, if I can get
<br />a commitment, and I'm pretty sure I can from the Applicants, that if we can work with the
<br />designated representative from one of your group, they can get together and do that, I personally
<br />will make sure that this RFP gets put together, gets formatted, and gets processed in the most
<br />expeditious way I can do it. Thank you.
<br />MOSES: Thank you, Director Kanuha. If there is no further discussion, staff, please take roll.
<br />ARAI: Commissioner Ikeda?
<br />IKEDA: Aye.
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