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INOUYE: Hello.
<br /> DELIMA: Yes.
<br /> INOUYE: Okay, yeah, this last submission to the Agency here, excuse me—recognize our
<br /> Chairman, Mr. DeLima and the Board, I'm Don Inouye, owner 100 percent of the corporation
<br /> Reed's Bay Resort Hotel, Inc.—Limited, excuse me. Anyway, on my letter that I submitted to
<br /> the agency February 19, which was a week before this meeting to be on the board agency
<br /> discussion, I also had one to continue from the last one. But this request subject was to request to
<br /> be on the agenda to discuss the following solutions to the problem. One, either a new lease or a
<br /> solution of remaining on the month-to-month permit, okay? I need help from DLNR and the
<br /> Agency to resolve this dilemma, this catch-22 that I'm on, that you all discussed. If I can't get a
<br /> lease I'm satisfied to stay on the month-to-month, but I'd like to have you review the letter that
<br /> you have a copy of from Mr. Yee from the Planning Department. And he states, and that's on the
<br /> second page, but first of all this letter dated—let's see if I can dig it up. You all have it there,
<br /> yeah, here we go, is directed to, to DLNR and this particular letter--oh here weoh, I don't
<br /> know where it is. Anyway, it states that in answer to DLNR's requests concerning month-to-
<br /> month permits and a month-to-month permits as you know Reed's Bay been caught as well as
<br /> Naniloa Hotel, all the hotels on Reed's Bay that were built many years ago when the fire from
<br /> the Marco Polo we all had to be inspected. Prior to that we had the AIA architectural report that
<br /> came through and checked all three buildings, gave a very thorough report on the safety hazards
<br /> as well as many other little things, and all of these amounted to money in correcting. Now I
<br /> know that Country Club has a lot to do, Naniloa's still involved in some of`um. And you know,
<br /> I was fined $1,000, and $1,000 a day last year, and I had that repealed by the Building
<br /> Department. And then there's a letter in here referring to that. Now I can't afford to be fined
<br /> again this year because I'm faced with about $200,000 worth of repair work on violations. Now
<br /> these violations, some of`um, I mean none of`um are life threating because I've taken care of all
<br /> of the life threatening ones. These are, are, violations such as I have two rooms that are two
<br /> roofs that are unpermitted there at Reed's Bay. Now these two roofs that are unpermitted were
<br /> done years and years ago, before I even came aboard. I came aboard in 2002 as the owner of
<br /> Reed's Bay. And from 2002 to this date I've been spending a lot of money on refurbishing, also
<br /> upgrading on the direction of increase in business and I've got the business built up to the point
<br /> now to where I could support this $200,000 if I had to pay it. But I don't think it's fair because
<br /> they're not life threatening, I don't have a lease, and Mr. Yee's letter states that any month-to-
<br /> month permit, the lessee or renter that has that permit is not going to support it or get a loan
<br /> because they're only on a month-to-month. I can't get a loan for $200,000, but I can take it off
<br /> the profits out of the corporation, but you know, this could go on and on. This is a revocable
<br /> permit. Month-to-month. All I'm asking is that we make a decision, either I get a lease or that I
<br /> know that I'm going to stay on the month-to-month, but if I stay on the month-to-month, I'm
<br /> looking at this agency as being a super agency. In other words you can make decisions. I feel you
<br /> can go and make a demand or recommend to the Building Department that any outstanding
<br /> discrepancies or violations that are not life threatening can be delayed until we come up to the
<br /> master plan or implementation. Then I would be happy to stay on month-to-month. I would be
<br /> happy to go into a new lease, extended lease. Now you have the scope of work, I put a copy in
<br /> there of the one I submitted in August of 2017, as 2,000, I mean $2,200,000, which I had
<br /> obligations on the financing. Some of those things go away, you know. Its been a year and a half
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