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ZANE: I'm good. DELIMA: Thank you. You can move to Number 2. The Agency took up the following at 2:13 p.m. with eight members of the public in attendance. 2. Discussion regarding the Planning Department's continued support of the BDHRA, resources and opportunities available to the BDHRA in the upcoming fiscal year, and BDHRA efforts and direction in the upcoming fiscal year. MEAD: So, regarding Agenda Item No. 2, so this is a discussion regarding the Planning Department's continued support of the BDHRA, resources and opportunities available to the BDHRA in the upcoming fiscal year and BDHRA efforts and direction in the upcoming fiscal. So, in this case, what went through at the State, there was no direct allocation of State funds or support for, to the BDHRA for the fiscal year. There is no—since the redevelopment districts under, under either BLNR or the HCDA did not go through, there was no real allocation that, that could have went towards that type of effort. However, additional discussions from, from the agency with DLNR can identify indirect support for, for some collaborative efforts on behalf of both the State and the Agency here. We do have an MOU saying we will work together towards these efforts, and the DLNR has produced several reports in the past that the BDHRA has seen so there may be some collaborative ways to work there. In terms of funding, we are uncertain with County funding for the Fiscal Year 2018. The Planning Department did propose a comprehensive budget for the BDHRA to function independently. The Planning Department initially was to support BDHRA efforts for the first year till they were funded in, up on functioning by themselves. The budget that we were proposing included staff, supplies, and what we identified as the next step which was the environmental studies to do, to execute or to move forward a Master Plan for the redevelopment area. However, with the County-wide budgetary constraints right now, there is, the funding did not make it through. However, it is worth noting that the funding has to be approved by the Council so there may be—there may be something that comes through eventually. If there is limited funding or if we do—if the BDHRA agency is able to get some funding, there are actions that are, you know, outside of a Master Plan which can move the BDHRA goals forward. Some of that money could be used towards less, you know, lesser, less expensive efforts such as, maybe as staff support; some sort of studies for the environmental assessment or the EIS that we see or that we identify as being a step towards a Master Plan; implementation of some of the recommendations from Blue Zones; design on construction of entry features. There's kind of several options there that the BDHRA could entertain if there is funding that is allocated. The limited County funding could be used in collaboration for matching to accomplish other BDHRA goals as well. Another resource, of course, is the Planning's continued support of BDHRA. While we were supposed to sunset our support of BDHRA as kind of the support staff for the Agency, if the Page 4 of 8 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency May 31,2017 Minutes