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going to take care of the landscaping, you know. It's going to be—and somebody from here, you
<br />know, so it's all, and we know how Hilo is. I actually lived in Hilo for a year, so I know how
<br />hard it is everybody commuting to Kona. I was actually commuting from Hilo to Kona. You
<br />know, so, I know how hard it is out here, so yeah, all the 20 even—depending on, you know,
<br />obviously sales and all that, but it'll vary from 15 to 20 employees, so.
<br />AGUINALDO: And, are you guys going to have, you know, products like for, you know, you
<br />have body shops, yeah?
<br />QUINTERO: Yeah.
<br />AGUINALDO: The reason why I say that, that I'm deeply involved with our university.
<br />Believe it or not, Big Island, University of Hawaii/HCC is the only college where you can get
<br />your associate for auto body. There's—Kauai, Maui, and I think Honolulu is prettyI don't
<br />know if they still yet have. It's something that's it's a dying breed, and, you know, for that kind
<br />of stuff, as like AutoZone yeah parts, you know, I travelled the mainland. I see you guys in
<br />Arizona or wherever I go, but that's something to really think and consider is always step outside
<br />of the box. Really look at it. What do the community really need? Do you guys go to the
<br />University check, you know, the diesel shop, you know, auto mechanic. You may have
<br />graduates that know the technicality of what kind part they going need, right? So, that's kind of
<br />like from now on as a commissioner, I would like to see entrepreneurship that you guys do go to
<br />the universities or what not or to HCC and kind of seek what this, the challenges because it
<br />doesn't make sense you got good talented graduates and nobody go out there and reach out and
<br />help them out, because you know it's kind of poho. When we say poho, it's what a waste. That
<br />they leave, because nothing is offered to them. And, I'm an advocate for that because it's
<br />creating jobs, yeah? Something to just think about, you know, things that you guys should.
<br />QUINTERO: And, just to touch up a little around that, so, all AutoZones basically look the
<br />same, but the inside of each AutoZone kind of cater to the community. So, that's the kind of
<br />cool thing. If they see its more agriculture, they'll give us more agricultural products, and if they
<br />see that what's this, they'll give us more, so they all look the same, but the inside, every store is a
<br />little bit different. They carry different things. So, like you say, like the auto body shop thing,
<br />that's something I can control myself, right? I go back to my team, I'd say, he, this is the need,
<br />this is what we need here. You know, what can we do? What can we carry? And, the AutoZone
<br />being so, such a big company, we have a lot of purchasing power, so a lot of vendors want to sell
<br />to us, you know? So, it's usually, it's not hard, but it's fairly simply to try to get something on
<br />the island, so we can control that.
<br />AGUINALDO: Mm-hmm, good.
<br />AU: Mr. Chair, I have one more question. The question is for Mr. Rashid. So, based off the
<br />comments from the Traffic Division for Public Works, that comment they made about
<br />channelization of Kekela Street to accommodate peak -hour traffic. Is that, is there a concern?
<br />Do you have any concerns with that?
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