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KERN: Commissioner Domingo? DOMINGO: So in doing what you do, you folks would purchase asite, and then improve it, and bring it up-to-date with additional carriers coming on? FOX:Correct. Currently Crown Castle has 17 towers on the Big Island. All of them were purchased from other wireless service providers, mainly Verizon and Sprint. So they’re part of larger acquisitions, part of a larger national portfolio. To my knowledge Crown Castle has not developed any new facilities on the Big Island. But some of the towers albeit were old and needed to be upgraded. This is one of them. There’s another project that Crown Castle is also working on upgrading as well. DOMINGO: So when you see these conditions, as you mentioned, that the tower being old and probably needs some improvements, you would come in and offer your service, or purchase the property and then upgrade the old facility? FOX: I believe that’s in the purchase. Crown Castle purchased both the tower asset itself and the underlying lease. Crown doesn’t own the land that the towers are on so they actually have leases that the previous tower owners had, with the underlying landowners; and I believe that Crown was assigned the interest to that lease. DOMINGO: Is yoursa service business? FOX: Oh, our company, Alii Wireless specialists, correct. We are consultants for Crown Castle and other communication tower owners and wireless service providers. DOMINGO: Oh, I see. So -. FOX: So we help with attaining permits and -. DOMINGO: So we’re looking at three entities in this case, common entities -you folks, the wireless provider and the landowners? FOX: Correct. DOMINGO: Yeah, okay. You know, just one question to the administration, and this is one of my concerns. You know, in view of the fact that there has been somewhat much special permits being granted, is there a follow-up by the administration as to see whether the conditions imposed on the providers, to see those conditions are met? Like, for instance,planting trees or landscaping around the areas, and all of that? You folks make periodic inspections to see that those conditions are met and are being done? DARROW: We do. But, I mean, there is room for an improvement; and we’ve been actually currently actively working towards looking at the possibility of assigning staff to be able to specifically work on conditions of permits. That’s -. DOMINGO: I would appreciate that. DARROW: Yeah, that’s an area that we are currently looking at improving. DOMINGO: I’ve noticed a particular application, not regarding cellular towers but so-called uses on agricultural zoned lands, which was granted a special permit,and ever since having been approved I have seen no improvement whatsoever on that particular site. And I’m wondering if 4 EXHIBIT B