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businessman, because culturally I can prove a lot of things, and the thing that—you know what, I can
<br /> even take people to a moot position. And the characterization this need is the support, because you
<br /> people want to talk environment, we're going to lessen the traffic out of the airport by keeping the
<br /> workforce of the airline industry in the hotel that we are building there, so they are not going to
<br /> come out on Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway. You know, I was at many of the meetings, `O`oma and
<br /> everything, even with the federal government, the National Parks. So, I think you know, I'm
<br /> trying to keep it three minutes, and I think probably over already but the proposition for me is it's
<br /> very Hawaiian-based. It's going to be mostly green, actually, hotel in all of Hawaii, because we are
<br /> putting a SWAC system in there, it's seawater air conditioning, and we're desalinating the water
<br /> that's going to come through, and we are also putting solar.
<br /> So, and, part of which people want to add on, well, everybody using the airport now, everybody
<br /> forgot about what Governor Burns had done; the P5'aiea was taken away, a very cultural site, a very
<br /> big cultural site, the lua training grounds, that was taken away. But instead of me for come here as a
<br /> kanaka and Hawaiian to - - - in my face - - - enough to fight or hand out my - - -plan. And part of
<br /> the plan is, even when I mentioned this in, you know, the Windward meeting was that- - - area, I'm
<br /> actually bringing back and developing the P5'aiea like it once was, and bringing that site to where
<br /> the `aina is supposed to be. Like everybody changing the names, but people don't realize the names
<br /> of the places are characterized through spirit, the mind, art, and the body to ensure alignment of
<br /> everything above and below. So the way we are building even this hotel that I offered to propose to
<br /> the State government. I was also helping them to create funding. And I don't know about he's
<br /> trying to do that to even help the government to make money, because I know it's keep on going up
<br /> and up, and our land tax is going up. I do know, you know, District 7, 8 and 9, you know, paying the
<br /> high, it was 70 percent of the income of the County. So the heaviness, the burdens upon this
<br /> situation is that, for me, is, why building to offer this, is to lessen the burden of the tax payers, the
<br /> people to keep on paying tax when we cannot develop on public trust lands, which we all know for
<br /> fact is all crown lands. I'm not here about that argument. Especially, if I put my mo`o ku`auhau
<br /> down, my genealogy, I'm not here for that argument. So the thing for me is a support, and asking
<br /> for a support is very cultural, because this, this whole thing came down from a pule and, and the
<br /> needs of our keiki that- - - learn an education because it's a very educational way that I'm actually
<br /> designing, even with the workforce, where other hotels can actuallybecause one thing why I even
<br /> want to come to this and come to public with this is because I've often experiencedI went around
<br /> the world twice. I graduated from Honoka`a School. I don't have no university college degree, but I
<br /> have experience in business, corporate business. And the thing is that here with government—and,
<br /> honestly, I had easier business in dealings with, you know, doing communist, business in communist
<br /> country and China, Japan, and Sweden, even in America, in the States, and, here, it's more, been,
<br /> honestly, the most difficult, it's been - - -works for since 2006, and making sure that everything is
<br /> pono. So, conservation-wise, yeah, I do understand, you know, I do know. And that's why it is
<br /> delicate, the way we chose the certain areas of the `aina in that areas was way could go, and way will
<br /> go. So, for me, it's, you know, I'm, I'm open to a lot of questions and, but yet, you know, I'm
<br /> willing to actually put things in perspective, because, you know,people are too general. And I do
<br /> understand about `O`oma. I actually been at the, the caves. I know a lot of the burial sites. So
<br /> there's a lot of things that people wasn't there for for a lot of different areas and things. So, you
<br /> know, even Kohanaiki, you know, plenty other places. So, my, my thing is the support for this is,
<br /> helping the DOT, and honestly, you know, fulfilling things that have been envisioned years ago, but
<br /> doing it in a pono way.
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