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SCHATZ: I’m Eric Schatz, project manager for Crown Castle in Hawai‘i. Address is 150 Hamakua, No.703, Kailua, 96734. I wanted to offer a couple of clarification to Wendell’s testimony. He has got it right, we have been in communication with the engineer for the radio station, being Mr. Don Mussell. I spoke with him for the first time about five or six weeks ago. And at the time I was under the impression that the community radio station was interested in attaching to the subject of this application, the tower in Na‘alehu. Upon my conversation with Mr. Mussell, he clarified and said that what he really wanted to attach to was another tower that Crown Castle owns above Na‘alehu. That site is what we refer to as our Ka‘u site. It’s an existing 100-foot steel monopole as well. That pole has gone through the special permit process, has plan approvals; and so that attachment fromthe zoning perspective would be a pretty straight-forward process. Mr. Mussell is providing his requirements in terms of his specifications for the antenna, the size of the ground footprint that he would need for his radio equipment; and that will be going through the Crown Castle application process. We have worked with Hawai‘i Public Radio for the Crown facility in Hana. So they are actually operating from that site today. So we have, I think, demonstrated that we’re able to work with community-based radio stations at a less than commercial rate. And I suspect that that would be the case here was well. KERN: And so the tower that already has approval is the one you’re working on that with, and that would actually come to fruition faster, sooner than this application, do you believe, out of curiosity, since it already has approval? SCHATZ: Given that it’s an existing steel monopole rather than a wooden monopole that needs to be replaced, I think that would come faster, yes. KERN: Any questions? No? Seeing none, thank you. SCHATZ: Thank you. KERN: Anyone willing to entertain a motion? Commissioner Woodward. WOODWARD: Mr. Chairman, in the matter of Crown Castle GT Company Limited, Use Permit application 10-000023, I move that we approve the Use Permit with the conditions as outlined by the Planning Director. DOMINGO: Second. KERN: All right. We have a motion and second. Discussion. Anybody would like to have any discussion? I’ll just put my two cents in. I hope it works out for you guys; and I hope the radio station is up and running and it works for both parties. Thank you. With that we’ll take the vote. DARROW: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The motion before us is to approve the request for a Use Permit for this 104-foot monopole. With that I’ll take the roll. Commissioner Woodward? WOODWARD: Aye. DARROW: Commissioner Domingo? DOMINGO: Aye. DARROW: Commissioner Au? AU: Aye. 10 EXHIBIT B