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STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC – No statements were presented under this section of the agenda. There were two people from the public in attendance. BUSINESS OF COMMISSION: 1. Orientation to the formation of the Banyan Drive Hawai‘i Redevelopment Agency (BDHRA) to include review of applicable statutes, Resolution No. 481-16, and the discussion of rules of practice and procedure for the BDHRA. DELIMA: Okay. Our next agenda item is orientation to the formation of the Banyan Drive Hawai‘i Redevelopment Agency. Mr. Director, I guess. KANUHA: Yes, who’s going to do it? Luke? Luke Mead will be doing the presentation for the orientation and then we have a PowerPoint. Do they have the same information in their folders? MEAD: Yes. There’s a copy of the PowerPoint there just in case. KANUHA: Okay. Mr. Mead provided a brief presentation consisting of an orientation to the background information of the Banyan Drive Hawai‘i Redevelopment, the formation of the Agency, the process, and the next steps. (SEE EXHIBIT A). DELIMA: Before we take some questions, the Mayor has joined us and I think we all appreciate the fact that he has confidence in appointing us as members of the Agency. Mr. Mayor, if you would grace us with some words. KENOI: First of all, I wanted to thank each of you for being willing to serve on this body. It’s a‒‒appreciate. I know all of you are busy with a lot of other commitments, not just work, but also community and family. We are going to ask a lot, but we are also going to give a lot to all of you. Our Corporation Counsel, Planning staff, are all committed to providing all the resource, support, necessary resources that you need to expedite and move forward with the redevelopment of Banyan Drive. I wanted for aloha Department of Land and Natural Resource, Russell Tsuji. Russ, thank you so much. You guys willingness going (inaudible). This all started from a conversation with Senator Gil Kahele and our State Representative. We had Mark Nakashima in the room, Fresh Onishi, our Council was involved, board members, Stan Roehrig was there. We were all talking about just, what is the most critical part of our community that we could partner with the State and really have the wherewithal to make meaningful change happen. We certainly didn’t appoint any of you to talk story and just kind of go in circles‒‒that this is clearly defined objection‒‒objectives. We’ve been working with Joaquin and Duane and Bill; we meet weekly, especially on this. Not trying to do too much in the next few months, but making Page 3