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BANYAN DRIVE HAWAII REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY COUNTY OF HAWAII MINUTES February 22, 2017 The Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency met in the County of Hawaii, Hilo Council Chambers, Hawaii County Building, 25 Aupuni Street, Room 1401, Hilo, Hawaii,with Chairman Brian DeLima presiding. AGENCY MEMBERS PRESENT: Mary Begier, Brian DeLima, and Barry Taniguchi AGENCY MEMBERS ABSENT AND EXCUSED: Elmer Gorospe, Sigmund Zane ALSO PRESENT: Michael Yee(Planning Director), Amy Self(Corporation Counsel), Daryn Arai (Deputy Planning Director), Lucas Mead(Staff Planner), and Kim Tanaka(Secretary). A quorum was present with three members in attendance. The meeting was called to order by Chairman DeLima at 2:01 p.m. At this time Chairman DeLima opened the floor to receive public testimony. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC There were approximately 24 members from the public in attendance. DELIMA: Thank you Director Case for being here today, Chair Case, I guess they call you. CASE: Both, either. Thank you, Suzanne Case, Chair of Department of Land and Natural Resources. And thank you all for your service on this redevelopment authority. We, I'm here with Russell Tsuji, Land Division Honolulu, and Gordon Heit, Land Division Hilo. Also, I want to recognize our board member, Stan Roehrig. We really just came to make sure that we stay in good communication with you all, and contact us on the process as we go along with Banyan Drive Redevelopment. There's a lot of things going on right now from the DLNR side. As you know,just to recap the situation of Banyan Drive, most of the land is state land. Two of the hotels, Hilo Hawaiian and Naniloa, have been undergoing renovations and have long-term leases. Uncle Billy's, Country Club, and Reed's Bay really are at the end of their useful life, and we commissioned some studies on how much useful life remaining and so those are available online at the DLNR website under the Land Division. So they're under revocable permits, so they're really on 30, 30-day notice and will need to probably come down or at least significant renovation within the next few years, starting probably with Uncle Billy's and then Country Club. I think Reed's Bay has a longer useful life. So if they're, all three still being rented but really now's the time to start making sure that we start the planning for whatever the future of those spaces is. The golf course is under lease with the Naniloa to WHR. So whatever redevelopment planning that takes into account the golf course area needs to take that under consideration. It's under long-term lease. So that's gotta be,the lessee there has to be sort of part of this discussion unless you guys take a different kind of approach there. So that's really what I wanted to say,that we're,we signed this Page 1 of 18 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency February 22,2017,Minutes