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stay on my month-to-month until you come to a point of your master lease being completed and then the environmental studies being completed. All of this going take time so I'll be on a month-to-month. So I, you know, I'm kind of in-between. I'd like to get a lease, a long-term one, and I do have an application in for a long-term lease which I submitted in August 21 to expend, which I do have approval, for $2,200,000 to bring the building up to code. Now that hasn't helped any. Now that was in August; I have no response to that yet. It's been seven months and I have response from the Building Department. And hopefully I can coordinate the two and not have to pay the $30,000 and get that appealed, taken care of, okay. And I put this letter in because I'm concerned about certain things and looking at the future. And I appreciate being able to come to the Board and say what I have to say. And I thank you very much. If you have any questions, I'll be glad to answer. DELIMA: Does any member have any questions? Thank you, Mr. Inouye, and I think you hit the nail on the head in terms of the position that the Planning Department has taken in regards to this agency that we have to pass, we have to have the various plans completed before we are empowered to do anything and the County doesn't have the money to do the plans and they're at the Legislature trying to get the money, the matching the funds, but INOUYE: And I'll always do the best I can. TANIGUCHI: Mr. Chairman, I have a question. DELIMA: Mr. Taniguchi has a question. TANIGUCHI: Not of Mr. Inouye, but on this topic. Actually it's for the State DLNR. DELIMA: Okay. TANIGUCHI: What—is the month-to-month a standard practice or is there—that's only that and long-term leases? Can you do year-to-year leases? Mr. Gordon Heit from the State Department of Land and Natural Resources approached the microphone at this time. HEIT: To answer your question, there's no set minimum as far as the length of a lease. Originally I think we were working on a short-term lease or—from Mr. Inouye's request on a short-term lease of either five or ten years. We're still reviewing it. We're kind of waiting for these studies to be completed, the ones that were just done on usefulness of the life of the building. TANIGUCHI: Well, the reason I ask is that, I mean to go month-to-month is pretty, pretty tough. When you gotta take out reservations for ten months in advance or, you know, at least a year-to-year you have some kind of set—some kind of assurance that at least a year from now you'll still be there. Maybe a year and a day not, but—you know what I'm saying? Something other than a month-to-month. Longer than a month-to-month. HEIT: Yeah,just so you know, the process for leasing State land is bid through public auction so it's open to everybody. So, you know, when we do the property up for lease, we want to Page 2 of 7 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency March 28,2018 Minutes