16 Budget and Finance Committee - Regular Meeting

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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Budget Finance Economic Development Committee meeting. It's 9.07 a.m. Thank you, everybody, for being here. I'm the chair of the committee. My name is Yuki Le Sugimura, and this meeting is being conducted in accordance with the Sunshine Law. As a reminder, if If there is anybody in the room with you, if you're not in the chambers, please do identify by name who that person is. Looks like you may be in your offices or home spaces on Molokai and Lanai, and minors do not need to be identified. Welcome, Vice Chair Betongen.

Aloha, good morning, Chair. Good morning, members.

Good morning. Member Cook.

Aloha, good morning, Chair.

Good morning, Member Johnson. Oh, we can't hear you. Can I hear you? Member Rollins-Fernandez, we can't hear you too. Can you bring them into our zone? Chair Lee is excused. I'll come back to both of you because we can't hear you. Member Paulton.

Yorana and Aloha Kaka Kako streaming live in direct from the council chambers.

Yorana, good morning. Member Sinensi.

Aloha Kaka Kako, Yorana.

Yorana and member Uhajans will be joining us. Let's try them again. Member Rollins-Fernandez, can you hear us? She can't hear you. Can't hear you. Can't hear her.

So, Chair, thank you. The members are promoted on our side, so please just give us a moment for this technical follow-up.

Okay. So both Member Johnson and Member Rollins-Fernandez, we can't hear you, and can you hear us? Okay, yay, all right. Communication, half the battle. Okay, I'm gonna come back to you, is that all right? Okay, assisting us with today's meeting are the BFED staff. Thanks for fixing whatever this technical difficulty we're having. I would like to welcome the Budget Director, Director of Finance, Chief of Staff, and Deputy Corp Counsel Wigglesworth. Welcome to our meeting and please see the last page of the agenda for information on meeting connectivity. Thank you members for attending. Today's meeting, I see Member Rollins-Fernandez is on her phone. Can we, are we still having technical problems? Oh, okay, maybe Desjardins. So, Member Johnson, can you hear us? Oh, you can, we can't hear you still.

You wanna fix, yeah.

Okay, we're gonna reboot, so come back at 9.12. Okay, thank you, everybody. We're still having technical difficulties, and so I'm gonna take a 10-minute recess, come back at 9.40, 9.50, 9.49, and then looks like we're having technical difficulties. We still cannot, we cannot hear them, which is, in case we have a testifier, we have a problem, so. Okay, we'll come back at 9.49. Okay, welcome back. It is 950. And sorry, we're still having technical difficulties. I can see member Rollins Fernandez. And if she speaks, we probably still cannot hear her. So members, I'm going to be calling a recess of this meeting. And do we have a date that works for everybody? Or as many? June 24? Can you check your calendars? You cannot hear. Okay, I cannot hear you at all, Member Rollins-Fernandez. Can you hear us? Oh, now she cannot hear you. So frustrating. Okay, so we're going to recess this meeting and come back June 24th at 9 a.m., So if there are no objections, the chair will recess this meeting on September 24th at 9 a.m. Oh, I'm sorry, June. Sorry, we were talking about September earlier. Almost, almost, almost. To the same Microsoft Teams link and connections that we're using today with in-person viewing available here in the council chamber. Sorry about this, members. I really wanted to finish these two items. So if there are no objections, I'm gonna recess this meeting. Until June 24th at 9 a.m., yeah, okay.