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HCHA meeting <br />November 5, 2020 <br />and I believe can be overcome based on the great value a good application <br />of these funds could have. Mahalo. <br />Aiello: Thank you. Our next testifier is Robert Golden. Mr. Golden please unmute <br />your mic and you can go ahead. <br />Golden: Aloha my friends. I come before the committee to ask you to do one <br />thing ... to table this motion. And to put on pause this process of refunding <br />peoples homes in terms of this HUD grant. We've already heard some of the key <br />reasons why and I would just like to point you to one very important profound <br />book some of you might have read called what ... the Seven Habits of Highly... <br />Seven Habits of Highly Successful People by Franklin Covey its classic written <br />about 25 years ago and in this book Covey lays out seven clear habits that <br />make and enable people to be a success and extract ... we can extrapolate <br />from that and make the community a success. And I believe if go forward with <br />this plan for housing buyout we will be violating those seven habits of success. <br />One being proactive, that means taking responsibility. I'm not going to <br />elaborate on all of them, just a couple. Two and this ... that's the most important <br />one which I believe you will be violating if you don't table this motion, is to begin <br />with the end in mind. We have come before you, various people from the <br />community, have come before you to say we need a long term plan. We still <br />don't have this long term plan. And so people are ?? allowing, wanting to <br />buyout on their properties but we have no sense of a future for lower Puna. <br />You're going to be going to be giving away over $70,000,000 that might ... most <br />probably will not stay in the community. We will not be rebuilding. Lets take first <br />things first. Lets get a plan. Please work with this community to create a plan that <br />we all are working together on shoulder to shoulder and that way we can go <br />forward. I don't quite understand why there's this rush to do this now? We have <br />a new incoming administration and with a new mayor, Mayor Roth, you know <br />let us all work together. There have been many mistakes along the way, please <br />do not compound the errors of the past. Please show your good faith to our <br />community. We need your help desperately. We want to be proactive with you. <br />We want to be responsible players. Mahalo. <br />Aiello: Thank you Mr. Golden. We have a James Clear signed up, I don't see him <br />on the list so our next testifier will be Betty Oberman. Ms. Oberman please <br />unmute your mic and you can start. <br />We can't hear you. <br />Oberman: Good morning can you hear me? <br />Aiello: Yes. Please go ahead. <br />Page 5 of 36 <br />