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HCHA meeting <br />November 5, 2020 <br />Eoff: .... or Mr. Richards? Oh, Matt's not there. Is Mr. Richards there? Yes. Okay. <br />And, Mrs. Lee Loy? Just let me know when Mr. Kanealii-Kleinfelder arrives. This <br />morning we do have some ... oh, I'd like to call the meeting to order. <br />This morning we do have testifiers. And I believe our staff will help me to <br />coordinate their testimony. Oh I think I see Matt ... Aloha, good morning. <br />Kanealii-Kleinfelder: morning. <br />Eoff: Okay so Jeanette can you introduce the first testifier? <br />Aiello: Yes ma'am our first testifier this morning is Patrice MacDonald. Patrice <br />can you hear me? Patrice are you there? Okay I don't see her on the screen so I <br />am going to go to the next testifier. <br />Eoff: Jeanette? <br />Aiello: Yes. <br />Eoff: Before you do that, can I just make a correction, my friend... pal over here, <br />Ms. David reminded me that right now we are acting as Housing Agency <br />members not Council members so thank you, go ahead. <br />Aiello: Thank you for that. Our next testifier on the list is Diane Franciosa if I'm <br />pronouncing that correctly? Diane are you there? Okay I also don't see here on <br />the pictures. The third one I have up ... signed up to testify is Paul Kuykendall and I <br />see him. Paul you will need to unmute your microphone and then you have <br />three minutes. <br />Kuykendall: Mahalo. Aloha Kakou. My name is Paul Kuykendall I'm ... and I'm a <br />member of inaudible... lower Puna. I live on lower Pohoiki road on my farm that's <br />80% covered by lava in August 2018. We lost 19 acres to the lava, more than 300 <br />fruit trees, five acres of fenced pasture and all the structures on our farm, <br />including our home. We still have one water tank. We had more than a 100 <br />animals including 48 sheep and 12 milk goats. We tended the animals for more <br />than a year and then (inaudible) gave the animals away (inaudible) care of <br />um. Like many of our neighbors, working hard to reestablish with resources that <br />have been severely diminished by the lava flow were very disappointed in the <br />current plan to spend $78,000,000 on a buyout program for people who want to <br />leave the area and almost nothing on the infrastructure we need to rebuild our <br />homes and farms. My family received no aide from FEMA, the state or the <br />county. We had fire insurance that covered 1/3 of our loss. We have spent most <br />of that money on road access to the lava to our five acre kapuka, on living <br />expenses and a small guest home near our property. I called the county for <br />Page 2 of 36 <br />