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CLARKSON: It does, and I mean it clarifies the fact that basically the choice here is to make it easy for the current owners to make this facility a presentable and useful facility or let it basically deteriorate until I mean you know. I'm just impressed that they put so much money into it without any ability to get a lot of tenants in there but still if the rezoning application is unsuccessful I don't see what alternative there would be but for gradual abandonment. KERN: Yeah, and you know and that's why I think with the methodology that they're coming in with with kind of the housekeeping and then seeing where it goes from there is the right way. I think not supporting this or having it go the other way wouldn't serve the community it would pP g further deteriorate, it's an eyesore, it's going to eventually go into.a negative place where this is an opportunity actually kind of taking it the other way and itfis existing. So, that's why certainly we support this, and we believe it's the right thing not only for-the landowners and the applicant but again for the Hilo Community in general driven bythat as long as I've been alive and would love to see it shining it's nice to see what they havedone=as you sa ,there has been that investment in there and it looks great. So, we fully that. CLARKSON: Thank you. ROY; Raised his hand. REPLOGLE: Alex? ROY: Just a reminder to the Commissioners that the Hilo Iron Works building is actually a historic building so tearing it down would be virtually__impossible tiofit's not on the register of historic places but it is a site and has been citedby-State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD) as a historic building REPLOGLE Thank you. E=verybody good? Okay,I'd like to say something and that is when I was little Hilo Iron;Works there was aD six(6) caterpillar in a showcase window in that , factoryEvery time we drove by it LTwould look at=that tractor and in 1960 it got sucked out and they never found that tractor. Whereit-went, it's probably still out in Hilo Bay as a house to manini or something but it disappeared adHilo was flattened. But the Hilo Iron Works building the Ya i anaka's are right it was b fit well and the building withstood it. The water took the caterpillar out but not the building and while I hear the undercurrent of concern about the tsunami'we are after all=human and we are allowed to make mistakes and I think the best course of action as Director Kern__stated is to allow the facility to improve and I would assume people going in there know where th are and yeah, I think it's worth doing just letting it fall down would be worst. Anyway, th—at's all I have to say. So, if there's no further questions, I will entertain a motion to close testimony and discussion, motion for action. JACKSON: Raised her hand. REPLOGLE: Yes, Ms. Jackson? 12 EXHIBIT B (DRAFT)