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needed and will be providing the process overview later in the meeting. I'm here wearing multiple hats as needed and then Keiko, as always, taking care of a lot of the details, welcoming people, doing sign -in, etc. So, thank you staff. I want to thank also the Steering Committee for your longstanding commitment and dedication to this process. Thank you also to members of the public. I see many familiar faces. I appreciate people's interest and dedication to their community. We, as planners really in these sort of community planning processes, try to play an impartial role facilitating a communities' deliberation over the best ways to community objectives, helping people understand what their options are, the s1tategNe s they can employ and the tradeoffs that are associated with them. And in that light, I wanted to cover these four quick points tonight as a starting point to kind of set the context for tonight's meeting. The first one is about the integrity of the CDP process. The second two are related but are kind of flipsides of the same coin. One is to talk a little bit about the scope of the CDP in terms of the land use maps. The third point is also about the pe in terms of —the extent to which the CDP can go in terms of land use — not getting into realm of she -specific projects, specific refinement. And finally, I want to review —remind everybody where we're at in the process and where we're heading from here in terms of CDP adoption. Now, I'm excited to share this information now, prior to public comment just to clarify some things that have been floating around in the press and we know social media, whatnot —just to get some facts straight right off the bat, okay, in part for the public and part also for the Steering Committee so as you may hear a number of things during testimony, part of your job tonight is to ask yourself, am I hearing anything new? Is this new information? Is this accurate? And so, we want to present the facts to you up front so you can have that in mind as you may hear things Aduripublic c ent. So, thefirstwanted to touch on was the integrity of the CDP and really relates primarily to one State Statut , ne State Law, another guidance document the Steering Committee has been using. As many of yare familia there's a State Law — there's also a County version of this — it's called the Sunshine aw typically. It's really about open meetings and open public process. The whole point is to have public —government processes be open to the public giving ,00 them the opportunity to speak, right. What that means in practice, because the Steering Committee, like all County Boards and Commissions, is governed by this Sunshine Law. What that means is, you have got have open discussion, open meetings, and people have to be aware of what's going to be covered at meetings in advance to decide whether they want to participate or not, and people will come and participate through public testimony at these meetings. So questions have been raised recently about that process. I wanted to review a little of the history leading up to this point, as it relates to the Sunshine Law, just to be very clear about it. And I want to talk about this in the context of Hakalau Point because I know some — there's a lot of information going around about Hakalau Point as it relates to the CDP process. So, in terms of the Sunshine Law, back in May, during the community review process at a focus discussion specifically about coastal development, members of the public brought up concerns about the land use guide map at Hakalau Point. So, the original concerns about what the CDP draft had on Hakalau Point were raised at a public meeting, it was not at a Steering Committee meeting. So, staff, as they did with all the public comment during that phase, summarized all of Page 12