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but no, we couldn't. But anyway, there were no, nothing figured out what they gonna do with Uncle Billy's, Country Club, or Reed's Bay because they had a good number of years to decide. Now, my problem right now, to make it short is, I've been on without a lease now going on five years in August. And we have another bill in the Legislature's gonna change everything I assume, and we're gonna start all over and I'll be on another five years. And so, you know, I have resided myself, and I was told years and years ago by a dear friend next door to me, his wife was named Alice, and you probably know his last name, I can't think right now. But he told me that, "you know Don,"he said, "if any one of the hotels over here gonna get a lease extension or anything done, it's all gonna have to be political." And I've come to that conclusion now. And you know, it's hard to blame DLNR and it's hard to blame the political legislature. They've passed bills and everything, they even passed the bill for me to extend my lease for 55 years and this was way back in year 2011 if I have it right. And you know, and then this carried on until my lease expired and then I thought, well, if they not going give me a lease and they said I had only about 15 years left, I will put a last effort in for 15 year lease. Put down that I will spend the funds that's required to qualify under the bill that allowed me to get a lease extension. I put it in, it came into the legislature, but DLNR said they had better use for my property. Now I don't know what they mean by better use. And even the task force that we had over here which was headed by George Applegate at that time, submitted a letter along with DLNR letter stating that they agree, that there's better use for the property. But everything is such in a big turmoil. So where are we going to go? And I resided myself to accept another five years of month-to-month because it was mentioned to me that you know, DLNR has had people on month-to-month for maybe over ten years already. And I figured well, ten years is better than nothing, but I sure would like to have had more of a lease so I can continue to upgrade and not be caught up with the fire that they had with the Alcapono [sic] or whatever you call it hotel and caused all the headaches. They've even got bigger headaches on Oahu because most of the condominiums don't even have sprinkler systems. Okay, so anyway, in conclusion, I hope everything works out and I'll try very hard to be patient, okay. Thank you very much. GADDIS: Thank you so much Mr. Inouye. I'd like to follow up with you more later. Yeah, with that being said, we're done with, I don't think we have any more statements from the public so we can move on to the Business of the Agency. BUSINESS OF AGENCY 1. Presentation and discussion by the Long Range Division of the County of Hawai`i Planning Department on the current status of the proposed General Plan (2020)for the Island of Hawai`i. Presentation and discussion will focus on the Hilo Bayfront and Waiakea Peninsula areas only. The Agency took this item up at 2:12 p.m. with approximately 5 members of the public in attendance. GADDIS: First item on our agenda is actually a presentation by the Long Range Division of the County Planning Department to discuss the current status of the proposed General Plan for 2020 for the Island of Hawaii, but we're going to be focusing specifically kind of on the Hilo Page 2 of 19 Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency August 28,2019 Minutes