2020-01-08 Exh A Hearing Transcript Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Amend USE 15-056

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COUCH: Okay. Hi, my name is Mary Couch. I live in Hawaiian Paradise Park. I've been a resident there for about 6-7 years. The reason why I am here today, I was on the board there for a year, and I'm one of the people that bailed because it was so dysfunctional. But, the reason why I am here is because the board had already passed—we've got a cell tower being built that's going to be put up on 17'h where our community center is. And, in hindsight, that really should have gone out to the community for a vote. Now we're looking at another cell tower at the opposing end of our subdivision. This is right after that passed by the board; is when doctors started coming out on television saying we do not know what 5G is going to do to the community. We can't say without a doubt. And, honestly, it's going to be another one of those things like Roundup where once it's in, and it happens, and these contracts are not little one- or two- year things, these ramifications are going to take a long time to come to fruition. They say that highline and being located really close to high voltage power substations don't cause cancer, but any lineman worth his weight in salt will tell you it does. People that live close to that stuff have problems. We aren't talking about a minute amount of increase in the amount of radio waves that are going through the numbers jumped from 4K to 5K substantially. And, HPP is a large park, but we are going to now have two 5G towers in there—one for AT&T and one for Verizon. And these guys are paying peanuts, folks. Peanuts at the expense of the community. And once they're in, they're in, and it doesn't matter how many people get sick, because they don't know. They're going to monitor it. They just don't know, and that's the facts. That is the facts. They don't know. They're going to monitor it, and it ain't going to, it's not going to come to fruition until many years down the road. There's little kids right there! The neighbors, I was a board member, and I told them, please guys, this needs to go out to a vote to the community because it's going to impact our entire community, and they were too busy fighting with each other and I so regret. I regret that I had voted for that thing, and I should have said no, but I didn't know, and you guys have an opportunity here to help our community, to protect us, because our board didn't do that. So, I am asking you to genuinely please consider what you're doing. Consider, because we're going to have two cell towers in a small amount of space, and it's going to be going like this at our community. Thank you. CLARKSON: Nancy Young? Please speak into the microphone. YOUNG: Okay HALL: It's on. CLARKSON: It's on. YOUNG: Thank you, my name is Nancy Young. I'm actually a retired teacher. I also have 14 children that I gave birth to with my same husband, which maybe some of you know—Coach Tony Young, the big black guy with the dreadlocks. We have been on the Big Island for 27 years, and we were at 13 years being raised by Hawaiians in Hau`ula. We're originally not from California, but Illinois, and I just amI'm a mother; I'm a grandmother; I'm even a great- grandmother. EXHIBIT A 7