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You know. I don't know if you can answer that. Maybe the city can. I don't know. Yeah, there's a lot of parts that I'm not sure which part What you need? Yeah. >> [laughter] >> I want to answer uh I mean, the the financial part, like everybody is saying, is is is the difficult part. And that's why hopefully this bill um these loans that are going out with this program will be lower than what somebody can get at a bank. You know, that that's the intent. Is that people can get loans that are, you know, much more uh beneficial to them than trying to go to the bank cuz the bank rates are not affordable for people or they can't even get qualified for it. So, yeah, I mean, that is that is an issue. The the the part about what is required and and and not is, you know, we have state regulations, and we do require them to connect to a city sewer or county sewer when it's available.
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>> We all did that. >> So, >> okay. So maybe that's just another layer we could add later >> to add a spring lesson as well as a fall. >> Yep. >> But >> go back to those people. >> I guess question is do you think that that should be put in subcommittee disc? >> No, you can leave it vague. Like it vague. But I think we should go back to the people we at the first time. >> Okay. So, um, >> it's all good. >> Is there a motion to give? >> So, move >> thumbs up. Well, let's come up with a real motion, not >> I I've been sitting here too long. >> What? What motion do you want? >> Okay. So, uh, I guess the motion would be to >> to accept the language as written by chair ston um for subcommittee budget and finance.
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So, that is something that both ENV and and the state or the county that we're in has to answer together. And that's what we're trying to find out too. Where they're where they want a sewer and they can bring the sewer, we do support them connecting to the sewer system. But if they don't have a sewer system or they're not planning to, then individual wastewater systems do need to be upgraded. So, it can be a difficult The burden and the financial responsibility does fall on the homeowner when they stay on a a cesspool that needs to be upgraded. That That's the difficult part of uh individual wastewater systems. Okay, maybe maybe the city and county of Honolulu. Thank you. Appreciate it. Aloha chair, vice chairs, members of the committee. Uh Kayla Fox, executive director for the Office of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resiliency for the City and County of Honolulu.
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I will second that. >> I to accept the language for description. >> The description. >> Yes. Description as written. >> To accept the description as written by chairs. >> I'll second it. All in favor? >> I passes unanimously. And that was the last item on our agenda. So, um I would recognize a motion to adjust. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> Okay, we are at 12:59 p.m. Just gone to the one choir. Um Jimmy, thank you for being here. It's great to have a member of the public. Um I hope it won't be too much excitement. >> Okay. I love this stuff. Thanks, guys. >> Thanks. So,
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Um I completely agree with you. Um right now we are trying uh to find a mechanism that we can support, especially through my office, seeing that there are 8,000 cesspools on the island of Oahu. 1,000 of those are in projected sea level rise areas. I want to make sure that we're doing something right now. And so, I have $625,000 right now in our city's climate resiliency fund that I would I would absolutely like to have a mechanism part of this the beginnings of what a revolving loan fund would be. You're absolutely right, Senator. Right now, all of the cost is on our residents, and we have to find a financial suite of solutions to be able to offer our residents and our homeowners in every single one of our districts. For the island of Oahu, we're trying to start where we can. I've asked uh I've submitted an appropriation request through Mayor Blangiardi's executive operating budget for FY '27 for another 950,000 so that we can continue to work with the state, and we can combine the state and the city efforts to make sure that we start somewhere and that we can have a pilot program that starts to make these conversions, and I can say that the Department of Environmental Services, from my understanding, is conducting an assessment through the end of this year, and it's those types of uh details that I think we're all looking forward to understanding of what's going to be um the requirements for each of the homeowners and the residents.
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The The reason why I bring you up is because [clears throat] when they had started this whole cesspool conversion cuz the state had made a mandate to upgrade, my community was chosen. And there's the nearest cesspool or the nearest sewer line is miles away from homes. So, there's going to be a lot of cost that the city going to pay, that's going to probably go back to the homeowner and the people that's going to do them. So, what is you guys' solution? Because I still haven't heard nothing from anybody else that the ones that did the upgrades and made the cess the septic tanks, are they going to be grandfather clauses that they don't have to tie in? Or they still going to be have to go tie in um to the the sewer when they bring the sewer in? To advance Some of the easements, the cesspool outflow is in the back of the house.
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Yeah? So, that's going to be a lot of cost. We going to see if you guys have money to do it. Again, how are we going to uh subsidize a lot of families, including on Ewa Beach Road, that took the Environmental Services and the Department of Health and converted cuz they came to the neighborhood board? We had to uh vote on it if we were going to accept them to build a sep- septic tank to upgrade the cesspool, and it was voted through, and they did it. But now they're telling those homeowners, regardless if you have a septic tank, you got to tie into the sewer. And that's another thing that I have a problem with. So, something that we need to do here or there or someplace to make sure that there's not going to have any impact because they have septic. You know, and they got to get them pumped whatever the situation is.
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But that's something that you guys got to consider because my community is 110% against the conversion because of If you know where the community stay up Ewa Beach, we're miles away from Puakapuana and um Ewa Beach Road. But Lankford decided to say that he was going to do that area. And there's no justification because three of Nobody can tell us how much of the cesspools are leaking, right? With the sea level rise up and down, how much of them is pumping per month, right? How much of that is happening? Nobody can give them an answer, but they just saying that we're going to get loans and we're going to help you guys do this. Yeah? And again, it is it's really burdensome. So, I I think we got to come up with a plan to figure out how we're going to accommodate those families that had put in there because we can't Our families can't afford buying homes.
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So, they converted their house so their kids could live with them, and now they're going to be penalized after spending 40 to 60,000 for the septic tank. So, you guys can take that back. But I'll reach out to you guys later. But thank you, chair, for your for your Appreciate you. Thank you. Mahalo, Senator. Okay. We got eight more minutes for this one. Just planning you know, we only have eight more minutes for this one. I just have you so we can go fast. Um you guys are putting money into this bill? I thought I heard that correctly, city and county. We have monies right now that have been allotted um through a fiscal year '26 appropriation through the Honolulu City Council for cesspool conversions, and this process would allow us to be able to work with the state once the Hui Green Infrastructure Authority has the mandate and the ability to create this revolving loan fund.
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>> concerned about that because a revolving fund is usually systemic. It's not a one-time appropriation, a future appropriation. And so, and I again, as she and I have talked about, on-bill financing, which is the genesis of this, was run through municipalities through property taxes. So, as this bill moves forward, I'm really running out of time. You may want to look at something like that where there's a systemic property tax attachment from the City and County of Honolulu so the revolving fund can truly be sustainable and revolving. Thanks, chairs. I'm done. Thanks, Senator. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We'll take a brief recess for decision-making. Okay. Having conferred with the other chairs, the chair's recommendation is to pass uh HB 1618 with technical amendments.
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Any discussion? Chair votes aye for AEN. Um only technical amendments, right? Okay. >> Yes. Yeah. Yeah, it's fine. I'll wait. You know, in the committee report that the issues with the uh the viability of revolving fund, I have an next committee look at it. Okay. Thanks. Okay. Just just for a record. Hang on. So, I'm So, I'm in the middle of a vote. No, no discussion, right? No discussion, yeah. So, so as chair, just for discussion, I said one is we have challenges with the EDT committee. I also sit on the egg committee, so doesn't look well as EDT cannot move this measure because we don't have the support behind it. So, if you're calling for the vote, let's call for the vote. My vote would have to be no vote. You will stop Will that make it? Okay. Vote. We could another option to defer decision-making to 3:10.
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Everybody's got it. The 3:10? Yeah, everybody's got it. Well, well, No, but HHS can make a decision now. But EDT is missing. So, for AEN, chair votes aye, vice chair. On House Bill 1618, House Draft 1, Correct. passing with amendments, chair votes aye, vice chair votes aye, Senator DeCoite. >> No. Senator Rhoads. Aye. Senator Wakai. Is excused. Chair, you have three in favor. >> Well, you got to take the vote. Motion is adopted. Okay. For HHS, same um same recommendation, chair votes aye, pass with amendments. >> Recommendation is to pass with amendments uh Senate Draft 1. Uh the only excuse of Senator Fiel Palakiko. That's it. I don't care cuz I'm not going to get committee. Um any other amendments for WRs or no? Seeing none. Oh. No for Senator Favela. Any other WRs or no? Seeing none, recommendation for HHS has been adopted. Vote for AEN.
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All All Committee on Economic Development Tourism, um as you can see, we um I strapped with just two of us, and for those reasons, I would have to defer the bill cuz we don't have the slots to do it. And the deadline And the deadline. Just don't have a quorum. Okay. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> We're good. We are adjourned.
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Right. Welcome to CHS podcast. Today I'm joined by Emily Martin and we're gonna talk about bowling. I'm excited to be here. >> Yes. Very fun. Very fun. How did you join bowling? Well, so I did the triyouts. They were like in November. I really didn't want to do archery again because it wasn't my favorite sport. And my grandma's a champion bowler like 40 45 years ago. So she she has like a lot of knowledge, so she taught me a lot. So I was like, "Okay, I've never bowled before, but I can do this. It's it can't be that hard. It'll be something fun." And it's a sport. When did you start bowling? Well, I've bowled for fun since I was little, but this was the first time I've actually bowled competitively. Um, so I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Um, uh, how many people are on your team?
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What is up everybody? Fork up here. Welcome back to the Clear Water Sports Talk podcast. Farming simulator. We're coming for you today. Not very sporty, but very far agriculturally. Today we got the FFA people in here today. Got a few of them um from FFA. We have Landon Schill and we have Lily Steiner today to chat to us about FFA. Um we got a few questions for them. Um Landon, start us off. Uh what is FFA and why did you decide to do it? So FFA is an agriculturalbased uh club that's uh it's going to allow everybody to build their future in something if you're even if it's not farm related. You get to learn bunch of like leadership skills uh mostly a related things. So a mechanics but I mean you can do sciences everything along those lines. I started an FFA because I grew up in an agricultural background.
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allegiance Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. To my left and right, I just need to read a quick statement if I may. The New Jersey Open Public Meetings Law is enacted to ensure the rights of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meeting of public bodies at which any business affecting their interests is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provision of this act, the Cliffside Park Board of Education has posted notice of this meeting to be published by having the date, time, and place thereof posted in the office of the Board of Ed, in the offices of School Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6, and the high school on March 20th, 2026. This is an official meeting.
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through wireless devices, the freedom of expression, and then hazing. But I did notice or would realize that there is a discrepancy from last time from our previous work on the police interviews and whatnot. There is a discrepancy from what we had planned years prior and now. So if we can get to it tonight, I'd like to, but I think we just go ahead and start with the very first one, the 5305B. Do we need to do a roll call first? Yes, and then you didn't do a call to the audience, which we don't have any, but just to follow the agenda. Okay. And I'll go ahead and just do roll call. I'll write down who's who's here. Okay. Okay. And like I mentioned, there was no call to the public. Nobody submitted anything. Perfect. Okay. And then also while we're while she's getting it up, Alexis Goga, the behavior interventionist, here did say that she would be willing to support, but she's actually handling an IEP right now and so she once she's done with the IEP, she'll join us or she'll at least be at the next meeting.
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sitting for too long. >> Okay. Thank you. So, are we good to go? >> Um, yes. >> Okie do. Um, seeing the presence of a quorum, I call the Pelum School Committee meeting to order and um I will uh take roll call. Jenny >> here. >> Sarah Bess >> present. Rachel here. Um, and I see William has popped up. >> Yeah, I'm here. It just it says it have to have Dr. Z's permission to join. Um, it won't let me join under my other under the ARPS email. So, I'm just on my personal email. >> We can see you. >> Yeah, I just It's not It's not my the ARPS email. It Zoom keeps kicking it out and it says that it needs Dr. Z's permission. Dr. Herman RPS permission that it sent her an email a while ago or something. I don't know. >> Okay.
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Good evening everyone and welcome to the FY27 budget and override public forum for March 26th, 2026. Um, I'm also going to call the select board meeting to order cuz all five of us are here tonight. Um, I don't know if you want to open the meeting. >> committee to order. We have a quorum as well. Okay. So thank you to everyone uh who is here joining us either in town hall. Um, we also have a bunch of people joining us virtually on Zoom tonight. Um, this event is is being co-sponsored by both the select board and the school committee and um being recorded and live streamed by WACA tonight. Um, so thank you to our friends at at WACA for uh for being here this evening. Um, I also wanted to let you all know that we are recording this separately on Zoom. Um, mostly for the transcript because um the Q&A section which we'll talk about a little bit later, but um we want to make sure that we have captured all the questions and answers so we can um put it out on the web later on.
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