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UNGER: Please state your name and area of residence for the record. Thank you. <br /> YEE: Michael Yee, Hilo. <br /> UNGER: Thank you. Please comment on the petition. <br /> YEE: I do not, I do not object to the petition for standing. <br /> UNGER: Thank you. Commissioners, do you have any questions of the petitioner, the <br /> applicant, the Planning Director? <br /> VITOUSEK: Sure, I have a question for the applicant. How often do you surf out there? <br /> Banyans? Provided there's waves. <br /> MCMICHAEL: I can't surf there anymore, because they've ruined the inside waves. They've <br /> taken away the inside waves. The last time I surfed there was the Keolonahihi Surf Contest, and <br /> the inside wave, because it's so shallow, I surfed and hit my head and I was bleeding. That's the <br /> last time I could surf there. <br /> VITOUSEK: But, although you can't surf there anymore, are you still engaged in promoting <br /> surfing at the location? <br /> MCMICHAEL: I don't do the surf contests anymore. I did it for ten years, and I brought up <br /> Shane Dorian. He was my team rider, and he's, he's taken over, and he's done all the surf <br /> contests now. And, he's done a wonderful job. He's promoted surfing. He's given them <br /> scholarships and surfboards and, I mean, you name it. He brings, with Laura Sayre and Frank <br /> Sayre–they have the foundation, the Danny Sayre's –and so they bring in all the pro surfers to <br /> the, to Banyans. I go there every contest, support them, and it's just wonderful. I mean, they <br /> have to have a certain grade point average. They don't pay anything; they have like a <br /> can-goods-to-the-Food-Bank. They get trips to go to the national surf contests, and tons of brand <br /> new surfboards are donated from Firewire and Kelly Slater. They all–so it's, yes, it's just <br /> carried on, and yeah <br /> VITOUSEK: I just like, I'm just trying to understand. So, how much day-to-day time do you go <br /> down there,just check the surf, check on everybody, is that just a part of your regular life? <br /> Going down and seeing the scene and stuff? <br /> MCMICHAEL: Well, I don't hang out there every day. It's when the <br /> VITOUSEK: Right <br /> MCMICHAEL: —surf is up. <br /> VITOUSEK: Sure. <br /> MCMICHAEL: Yeah. <br /> 10 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br />