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TANIGUCHI: So may as well start. HEIT: Well, I'd clarify that by, I believe, the first step would be YEE: Yes, we've been consistent in saying we need the EIS, at a minimum we've been looking for $500,000 to do it. Certainly we've gone to the last two Legislative sessions to try to get that allocated to us and that has not happened. I've also said in previous meetings here, you know, if, I agree with Chairman DeLima that I get tired of banging my head against the wall if we just keep going around the same ask and not getting it at some point for us to figure out creatively what some options could be. But again, that's easier for me to say when we're not the ones holding the dollar signs, so difficult place to be in right now. GADDIS: Is there some sort of projected timeline for when he would get, you know, some sort of concrete response? I mean, I know that the request for proposal is one venue for you guys, but just so that, you know, so we can respond to him as far as when he may know what he's dealing with. Because at the moment HEIT: The short answer is no, we don't have a timeline. GADDIS: Okay. Got it. Yeah, hence the frustration. Any other comments, questions? Yes, Mr. Onishi, please. ONISHL So I'm a little confused. So we're talking about a master plan. What master plan are we talking about? GADDIS: Actually it's TANIGUCHI: I think one of the problems is that in 50 years they envision the shoreline to be higher; do we want to allow now for somebody to put a building in that's going to—or how do you correct those situations? What's going to happen? So to do a kind of plan of this whole area, like for example, what's going to happen to the golf course? You know, is it going to remain a golf course? We gonna convert it to a that's all part of a master plan. But the first step in that master plan is you gotta get an EIS for that whole area and the EIS would also determine what the master plan would come up with in terms of Mr. Inouye's property. Or, or the Uncle Billy's property for example, what are you going to allow there? And ONISHL Okay, so I guess for clarification purposes, doesn't the EIS have to be done based on some kind of criteria? So, I mean if you don't have any criteria as to what you wanna do there, how do you do an EIS? YEE: So I want to back up in that the authority for the BDHRA to, to enact and do things would come once the master plan was, is adopted. In getting to that point, a conceptual master plan, which is up on the board behind you, was developed in 2017, right before I arrived. And that was enough to be able to tell a consultant on how to approach an EIS. Okay, so that in itself was giving them the idea from an EIS you would also produce alternatives to this conceptual plan behind you. And so that answers your question, how do you know what's the criteria, what is based on this conceptual plan that was developed by BDHRA. Page 4 of 19 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency September 24,2018 Minutes