Good morning.

Will the Committee on Infrastructure Transportation and Technology please come to order?

It is Wednesday, January 14 at 9.02 a.m.

And I would like to welcome committee vice chair Okimoto and Committee Members Tupola and WIRE.

Thank you very much for joining us for the first committee of the year.

And happy new year, happy 2026.

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We have Mr.

Aaron Sakamoto.

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

Good morning, Chair Cordero, Voice Chair Okamoto, Council members, Aaron Sakamoto with the Department of Design and Construction.

And we're asking for your acceptance and approval, approval and acceptance for those easements.

I'm available to answer any questions that you may have.

Thank you.

Mr.

Takamura, I was wondering about the um you what's the what will be the use for the easements?

These easements are for sewer sewer lines.

Okay.

And um who currently owns those easements?

Uh it would be the ward.

Well, it's being created.

These easements are being created.

Got it.

And um were these easements granted to the city at no cost?

Okay, got it.

Members, do we have any questions?

Okay, we have Councilmember Tobola.

Just brief questions.

So are the easements necessary because of the additional residential buildings coming up in that area, or is the ease.

Can you tell me the purpose of why all of a sudden we need the easements?

Yeah, it's I believe it's for the sewer capacity.

It is, okay.

Because there's a lot of new buildings right in that area.

So I thought maybe that's why it is that it's being built there.

And then aside from these easements, do you guys foresee like in the future in that area because there is so much growth that we would come back and need more, or is the sewer capacity going to be quite large and gonna handle for the next few years?