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moral right if it would cause such substantial harm to the community -the people who returned him to office so many times. He didn't answer. Prior to the Council meeting, a group of concerned community members met with Mr. Tulang to discuss our issues. Mr. Tulang indicated that he stood with us on the flooding and would see what other issues could be resolved via a "charette" that he would be proposing and did on Mayo at the Council meeting. On May 5, I contacted Kamomi from Mr. Tulang's office offering to assist him in securing community participants in the charette. I received a message later from Kamomi that Mr. Tulang would be conferring with people on the make up of the group and would call within 2 weeks. Approximately 1 month later I called Mr. Tulang again since I hadn't heard from him. This was a Monday. He said that the charette was scheduled for Thursday of that week. I was surprised since we hadn't been notified. He said that "we decided that it was to include only public agencies"...I asked who "we" was and he just repeated himself. I asked again who "we" was and why the community wasn't involved since we first raised the concerns that would be discussed with the agencies. His reply was again that "we" decided the community would have its own charette with Planning Director Yuen to discuss the buffer zones. I protested saying that these were not the issues of primary concern to us and, again he refused to identify the "we". I ask you now Mr. Tulang who is your "we" and why weren't community representatives included in the charette? The second part of the statement, "...and, as if all negative impacts on its neighbors - us, have been addressed... "gives me pause. • Within a radius of a few miles, we have everything - 6 schools, 1 hospital, several medical clinics, lots of doctor's offices, 2 supermarkets, about 7 churches,