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and how to take care of yourself from the land.And all we’re asking for is permission to run a small cottage business, not to alter the agricultural nature. If you, the photograph of the property that Mr. Darrow took shows what we have done there. Because when we bought the property there was cane grass 20 years old. You could not walk on the property. We had to hire, I started weed whacking it with a blade, 3 acres weed whacking, the cane grass that was 18 feet tall. I went about two weeks and I said I can’t do this. I finally rented a bulldozer. I was trying to protect the permaculture of the land by not bringing in a bulldozer, but I had to do it. Our intention is to serve the community. And, again, we’re right on the road in what is downtown Kapulena. And we only, my wife and I only ask for this opportunity to continue to serve the community. Without being able to do so would force us to perhaps consider options to living on the island or leaving Kapulena for certainly, for certain where we have a community of friends and patients and supporters that would like to see this fly. Again, I thank you very much for this opportunity.This is proof that the system does work; and whatever the outcome of your deliberations I am prepared to live with that. Thank you. WOODWARD: Thank you. Do we have any questions for Dr. Hernandez? Okay, seeing none, you two may be seated. We do have a -. AU: Well, excuse me, I have a question. WOODWARD: Oh, excuse me. Commissioner Au, go ahead. AU: You know, you say that you want to service the community. And I see that you are submitting a plan, you did submit plans and you are in the permitting process of these two new dwellings. You are running a business and you do serve patients. Like what, could you just explain to me what condition your patients are in when they are seeing you; and, you know, if they are in a bad condition, is your facility ADA compliant? HERNANDEZ: That’s part of the -. What Lori Mikkelson told me was that we have to achieve ADA compliance. And I don’t know whether it’s in the plans that you submitted how we’re going to do that. MIKKELSON: No, no. HERNANDEZ: Okay. Yes, so we have talked about that. It isn’t that current; and one of our good friends is in a wheelchair that lives in, one of the people who wrote this letter is in a wheelchair from polio as a child and he supports us entirely, especially when we told him and we showed him how we’re going to make it ADA compliant. We don’t do procedures at our place like any medical invasive thing, what we are as counselors. So a typical patient that would come to me, we have, I have a number of Hawaiian background people with diabetes and heart disease that I’ve treated in the past, for example. Those are two big things. Nutrition, we counsel on nutrition. Again, everything that we talk about is natural since I am a naturopath. And so it’s noninvasive, nonphamaceutical medicine that we practice and mainly counseling. But we see everything from babies with ear infections to people in their eighties or nineties that are having 7 EXHIBIT A