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GRAHAM: Thank you. Mr. Crowley, do you have any comment on that, too? <br /> CROWLEY: I can't give you any specifics as far as risks that are involved; but as we've <br /> talked about before, we live in this community and our families grew up in this community.. And <br /> as I stated my wife was born and raised here, our families are here. So if there are risks that are <br /> involved, we are going to address any of the risks, we'll try to address them as best we can and <br /> try and fix whatever is brought to our attention. <br /> GRAHAM: My understanding of Commissioner Ogata's question for you was just to <br /> give you an opportunity to speak to the issues that other people have testified that aze problems <br /> for them, that's all. <br /> YATES: Well, I'd like to make one comment on something that was just brought <br /> up. One, again, I am the general store manager again so I'm born and raised as local as you can <br /> get. So as far as opportunities for locals, it's unlimited. I also want to make mention that I have <br /> 13 upper managers where 9 of them are local. So the majority of my staff is from the island here <br /> locally and they have a great opportunity to advance as far as they'd like to. <br /> GRAHAM: Thank you, sir. <br /> CROWLEY: And I would say the same thing. I have 13 and 9 of my 13 aze locals from <br /> <br /> Hawaii, graduated from Hawaii schools. <br /> <br /> GRAHAM: Thank you. Any follow-up, Commissioner Ogata? No? <br /> <br /> OGATA: No. <br /> GRAHAM: Thank you both. <br /> IWASHITA: Mr. Chair? <br /> GRAHAM: Yes, Commissioner Iwashita. <br /> IWASHITA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just for the record, I'm a Hilo High School <br /> graduate. My recollection, we used to bust up Kona a lot at football. <br /> YATES: Oh, that's not true. <br /> IWASHITA: I have a couple, I guess I'd ask for your comment. Part of our material <br /> includes articles that talk about, you know, sort of obvious thing to me, that superstores would <br /> require a super parking lot, yeah, in order to accommodate the people that you expect to come. <br /> And so the claim is that that adversely affects traffic, not just in the area but in the surrounding <br /> areas. So do you have any comments about that? That would be one of the, in my mind, an <br /> adverse impact of having a superstore that would have a super parking lot and super traffic <br /> problems. <br /> CROWLEY: I can't speak personally of it. <br /> 12 <br /> <br />