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And we have, I believe we have everyone today.

As I mentioned, I'm I'm deeply grateful to the mayor for his uh for his trust and confidence.

I'm grateful for the support of my colleagues.

And um, I hope I've I've earned your support in the last four and a half years, but I look forward to this discussion and answering any questions you might have.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Um we'll proceed to in-person testifiers.

Oh, sorry.

Any questions for thank you so much, Chair, and and thank you.

Um you got my 110% support.

Really enjoyed working with you over the last four years.

But I I asked the same question of Director Kawano yesterday.

I'm just curious if you could answer the same thing.

We're looking at revenue generation.

How can the city generate revenue without raising property taxes?

Because you know, I have Bill 45 and 46 actually lowering taxes by increasing the homeowners' exemption.

Um how do we lower taxes but yet generate revenue?

If you have any ideas.

And so we we very much are in line that we don't want to raise taxes wherever we can, but at the same time, our needs continue expanding every day.

Um and the the truth of it is there's there's certain tools that we have that we haven't used as well as we have as we could have.

Um councilmember um Cordero championed uh the sponsorship uh bill last year, and I have not seen a significant increase of that of usage of that bill at all.

So that's something, for example, that I would want to push our departments to be more thoughtful about and and and and and work on because that's there are many departments that have a really good brand, a really good reputation.

There's there's people out there who want to help us, and we should be working on those types of things.

But that's one thought.

But if the council has other ideas, I'd be I'd be more than happy to work on this.

One of the other things I brought up in the past was you know, advertisement on our bus or in the rail.

You know, I think that would be really, really good.

Maybe even in the rail stations, you could name a rail station after someone who's willing to donate money.

But I think that that would be really good.

You know, other cities do it, but we haven't done it, mostly probably because mostly because of the outdoor circle, but advertisement on buses on the exterior of buses or bus stops.

Is that something that you're willing to look at?

Chair, um, so I was here at Corp Council, and this was back in 2012 when we tried to do that, the advertising on the buses, and it's exactly as you described, there was a significant opposition.

Um, but I think done right, it can still be done.

And so that's something that we just need to discuss with outdoor circle and figure out and see if we can get done.

I mean, other cities, as you know, do it.

We're very proud and and rightfully so about sort of visual pollution, but but there must be a way we can get it done in a proper way, and so we um I'd be open to figuring that out.

You know, wedding photography is um not allowed in Waikiki.

But I thought, what a great idea to have one of those kiosks in Waikiki.

We're trying to activate those.

I think we put a beaky station in one of them.

But why not have a wedding photographer in there where wedding photographers could rent out the space?