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REPLOGLE: Okay, thank you. Anything further from any other Commissioners? <br /> AU: Yes, Mr. Chair. This is Commissioner Au. <br /> REPLOGLE: Mr. Au? <br /> AU: Can everybody hear me, okay? I hear a lot of people cutting out. <br /> AGUINALDO: Yep. <br /> AU: Okay question to Mr. Pipan and Mr. Hirakami. I'm getting mixed messages, Mr. Pipan <br /> said there was some opposition from some farmers and then Mr. Hirakami said that there is no <br /> opposition. Can you just clarify that and just want to be fair to the people that live around the <br /> area, we always take that into consideration? So please, please clarify. <br /> PIPAN: Yes, thank you Commissioner Au for the question and opportunity to clarify. I believe <br /> and Mr. Hirakami can speak to this but he's referring to their existing operations and the lack of <br /> any complaints or friction with the surrounding community on their existing main ASC site in <br /> Pahoa versus the testimony which isn't necessarily a complaint. It's more of an opinion about <br /> this proposal that was received and responded to in this application process. So, we definitely <br /> respect their opinions and hope to address their concerns and I think we've done that in the <br /> conditions. Does that answer your question? <br /> AU: Yes. <br /> HIRAKAML And Mr. Au, I can clarify that too. When we originally moved into our Pahoa <br /> property, our only neighbor was a 10-acre anthurium farm and we actually form partnerships. I <br /> mean we had students doing volunteer work in his nursery there and he donated a lot of flowers <br /> to us when we had any kind of graduation events or anything. So, what I was saying earlier is <br /> not the opposition, but the opportunity to introduce some of our students to the possibilities of <br /> making a living from agriculture because we steered our whole society away from agriculture. <br /> And it's like, it's hard work and so I think that presenting the opportunities and being surrounded <br /> by neighbors it's like making lemonade out of lemons, so I think that forming partnerships like <br /> we've always done will be a benefit for both them and us too. <br /> REPLOGLE: Ms. Galimba? <br /> GALIMBA: Thank you Chair. So, of course I have to kind of jump in there and make John <br /> laugh just by saying anything. Well, I just wanted to say that I really appreciate Mr. Hirakami <br /> your background of working with farmers and having students learn from them, and I think that's <br /> a really great approach. I would just sort of take issue with one of your comments, which is that <br /> kids can there's no sort of dichotomy of going to college versus working in agriculture. As a <br /> super overeducated rancher, I would say that that is not a dichotomy in fact you have to be very <br /> educated and very smart nowadays to make it in agriculture. I mean you could potentially not go <br /> to college and do really well in agriculture, but it would probably not hurt to learn some <br /> 9 <br /> EXHIBIT D <br />