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Bill 83
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Tambara Garrick, Treasurer- Hawaii Farm Project Victor Lim, Government Relations Lead - McDonald's
Address: 2909 Wai'alae Avenue #22, Honolulu, H196826
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To: Councilmember Rebecca Villegas, Chair
Directors
Councilmember Jenn Kagiwada, Vice Chair
Policy Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources Mgt.
Mike Palmer
Andy Huang
Tambara Garrick
From: Victor Lim, Legislative Lead
Victor Lim
Hawaii Restaurant Association
Jesse Aguinaldo
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Matthew Asato
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Javier Barbed
Alessandro Bolls
RE: BILL 83 —AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 20 OF THE
Timothy Ho
Tim Januszewski
HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2016 EDITION, AS AMENDED),
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Tom Jones
RELATING TO PLASTIC AND POLYSTYERENE
Jay Kaneshiro
Ryan Ko
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The Hawaii Restaurant Association (HRA) represents over 4,000 Eating and
Drinking Place locations throughout Hawaii and appreciates this opportunity to
Ave Kwok
Keith Mallini
offer comments and express our concerns on Bill 83.
Greg Maples
Don Murphy
HRA understands and shares the County's goal of reducing disposable plastics
Edwin Ohta
and but are concerned with the bill as currently written.
It is difficult
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Alison Tanaka
polystyrene
not only for businesses that operate in multiple counties to comply with a
Katy Tanaka
patchwork of different county regulations addressing basically tie same Issues.
Ryan Tanaka
Tina Wang
This is also very difficult for our Industry suppliers and distributors that service our
Food Service Industry here in Hawaii. As many of our members are already
Nicolas Ware
Anthony Wong
complying with the Honolulu and Maui County Disposable Food Ware Ordinances,
in Bill 83 to align with the applicable
Nicolas Wong
we ask for your consideration amending
provisions of Honolulu's Ordinance 19-30 (Bill 40;2019) Relating to Plastic. This
Allied Members
ordinance added a new Article 27 Polystyrene Foam and Disposable Food Ware.
Having uniform policies across counties will reduce economic burdens and can
Ronna Bahl
James Idemolo
lead to economies of scale and more efficiencies.
Raymond Orozoo
Bryan Pearl
We urge to amend Bill 83 to avoid creating an additional burden on our
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members and many small businesses struggling to survive in these tough
David Yoshioka
economic times. Thank you.
Julie Yunker
Advisory Board
Jerry Agrusa
Jamie Brown i
Richard Rand
Richard Turbin
staff
Sheryl Matsuoka t
President & CEO
Holly Kessler
Vice President
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