2020-10-01 Exh B New Cingular Wireless USE 19-000082

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This agenda to put up anew tower this is your j ob to stop it. Is it because there are dropped calls happening, all these new towers going up in towns where there's great reception currently already, why is that? Are you preparing for 5G Michael? Helping out big telecom? So, you don't want to lose funding at the expense of your constituents, the residents of this island. We cannot use health reasons on this testimony. LEY: Please summarize. ELMER: That is the most ridiculous idea I ever heard. We can use hell reasons though. If you do not protect us from the towers and the harm that they cause. If you believe in a God at the end of this life you will not be seeing heaven. Thank you, Windward Planning Commission for convincing this guy Michael Yee to do his job. Aloha. RAFFIPIY: Thank you Mr. Elmer. Do you have any questions from the Commission to Mr. Elmer? No questions. At this time, we will have Battalion Chief Kazuo Todd, Hawaii Fire Department. Mr. Todd you're on. TODD: Hold on a second, alright can you hear me? RAFFIPIY: Very clear. TODD: Okay, my name Battalion Chief Kazuo Todd and I'm representing the Hawaii Fire Department in support of the telecom tower and this is for Hawaiian Paradise Park and the reasoning behind the Hawaii Fire Department support for these facilities is that it does help to increase the quality and the nature of a call system for the cellular. The Fire Department uses a variety of technologies nowadays that allows us to connect to our varying units out in the field and as we increase the quality of the cell phone towers and the connections for that it allows us to implement better communications it allows us to have the kind of connection with our units and protect the citizens of the County in a more effective manner. We've rolled out a lot of technology in the last two years that is cell phone based and runs through data connections that runs through cell phone towers. This is for redundancy and for building a better more robust system. As such, any power that's going in that can help us improve the coverage and produce a better outcome for the citizens is something that the Hawai i Fire Department is in support of. That's pretty much the crux of my testimony today and that's it for me. Thank you very much. RAFFIPIY: Thank you Mr. Todd appreciate it. Do we have any questions from the Commission to Mr. Todd? Mr. Clarkson go ahead. CLARKSON: Yes, I just am curious as to whether even with the use of the cellular system for communication with the units in the field whether the Fire Department and other agencies of the County are going to still maintain an independent radio system as a backup for failure. Perhaps, fiber nets or other aspects of the cellular system. EXHIBIT B 6