Aloha and good morning, everyone.

It is Tuesday, April 28, 2026, and the time is nine.

Oh four AM.

Will the committee on budget please come to order?

Like to welcome to the committee.

Committee Vice Chair Nishimoto, Council Members Cordero, Kia Aina, Talba, and Chair Waters.

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Moving on to agenda item number one, resolution 26-87.

This resolution authorizes a transfer of funds not to exceed 222,000 in general fund monies from the provision for energy costs activity, current expenses, character of expenditure to the Department of Enterprise Services, Auditoriums, and Golf Courses.

Activities, current expenses, character of expenditure for fiscal year 2026 required to cover the department's fuel and electricity shortages.

Members, we have distributed a hand-carried proposed CD1 OCS 2026-0237 slash 4 slash 24 slash 2026 at 302 p.m.

Submitted by myself.

The CD1 makes the following amendments.

A amends the third whereas clause to specify the receiving activities and characters of expenditure.

B, in the be it resolved clause, amends the table to correct the name of the originating activity, provision for energy costs.

C in the be it finally resolved clause, adds the director of enterprise services as a recipient of a copy of the resolution.

And D makes miscellaneous technical and non-substantive amendments.

Before we bring up the administration, we'll proceed first with in-person oral testimony in the council chamber.

Clerks, do we have any in-person testifiers for this item?

Chair, there none.

Thank you.

Proceeding now with remote testimony.

Clerks, do we have any remote testifiers for this item?

Chair there, none.

Thank you.

We'd like to now welcome from the Department of Enterprise Services, Director Dita Holyfield.

Aloha, good morning, Director.

Aloha and good morning.

Dita Holyfield, Director of Enterprise Services, and I just appreciate the opportunity to be considered to access the 220,000 dollars for the pro from the provisional account for the energy cost to support our energy needs at the Playsdale and our golf courses.

With regards to the Playsdale, we have a current electricity budget of 1.2 million, in which this year I believe we're going to actually reach 1.5 million.

And so I just want to talk about the baseline so everyone is clear why I think we are here.

First of all, since uh 2019 and COVID, there were most of the facilities have been not fully operational.

So some of the Blaze deals have been closed, the concert hall was closed, the X hall was closed.

So it's been difficult over those years to really see how much every single year that we're really gonna need in terms of electricity.

And also, we also know that there has been large increases in electricity costs since 2019.

So the concert hall was shut for 20 months, and the Blazed L Arena was um seven months.

So in FY24 and 25, when I started, I was able to actually start to open some of those venues.

So this year will actually be the very first year that we've been able to have full openings on all of our venues, and I do think at this point we can get a better um handle on what the baseline is gonna look like.

Now the exciting news for everybody in this is that we did pull together a full marketing team, and we have been very successful, especially in the X hall by taking some of the business from the closures of the convention.

And now of course, we know about the stadium.