2020-03-05 Exh B New Cingular dba AT&T USE 19-081

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RAFFIPIY: Let's maintain order in the audience, please. ELLWOOD (from audience): He skipped a part of it. He skipped the under half a mile. TOMLINSON: So, in addition, I'm aware, I read the testimony from the Kamehameha Schools. Kamehameha Schools is approxalmost a quarter of a mile away from this facility, and they were previously notified of the, of the hearing, the previous hearing, and the development of this project, and AT&T would be happy to speak with them further and have a public outreach with them, you know, as a condition of approval for the project. We're always happy to have dialogue and AUDIENCE MEMBER (from audience): —For the parents of the kids [inaudible] HALL: Go ahead [directed to Mr. Tomlinson]. RAFFIPIY: Let's maintain order, please. TOMLINSON: —Yeah, and also I'd like to point out that Kamehameha Schools is an active landlord hosting many, many, many cellular telecommunication facilities throughout the State— ELLWOOD (from audience): [Inaudible] put it on their property RAFFIPIY: I gotta remind the public, please let's maintain order so we can get through this as efficiently as we can. Thank you. TOMLINSON: And, then, lastly, there was some concern about compliance and monitoring regulation of the facility, and I just want to remind the Commissioners its only application that the proposed facility is regulated by the FCC and is in full compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act, and which requires a cultural survey of which we got concurrence of a "no effect" from the State Historic Preservation Division. We did biological surveys, and we've included potential best management practices for dealing with pueo, nesting pueo, bats, and any other natural resources that may be affected. We would be participating in a survey, hiring a survey[or] prior to construction to make sure we would mitigate any effects. Plus, we won't be cutting any trees over 15 feet which are basically following the guidelines of the Fish & Wildlife Service and DLNR. And, I think, lastly and most importantly, I wanted to bring up again that this is a FirstNet site, and to reiterate, what FirstNet is, it's a—sorry I'm going to go back to my notes—FirstNet is a Federal program that AT&T is the contractor for across the country. It was developed out of the 9-11 Commission and is designed to create a network for first responders to have complete coverage during times of emergency for their cellular communications. It was vitally they identified it as a vitally important aspect of their work. So, the FirstNet program entails actual firefighters, policemen, getting phones that work on the AT&T network, and they have their own band, in the 700 band, that provides them preemptive EXHIBIT B 5