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PRUEITT: Yes. WOODWARD: Okay, sir. PRUEITT: Can I go last? WOODWARD: Can you go last, sure if you’d like to. PRUEITT: Yeah, okay. There’s probably a lot that’s going to be said. WOODWARD: Okay. The next is Tony Delellis. DELELLIS: That’s me. WOODWARD: All right. Domeck, have a seat, or have a seat at the table. Domeck, Lori Schaeffer, and Gary Marrow. Okay, and we do have, as I say, six people signed up so we’d like to have you limit your testimony, please, to three minutes. And if you go beyond that we’ll politely ask you to summarize. Now, I need to swear you in. If you’ll raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: Yes. WOODWARD: Okay, very good. All right, Tony Delellis, you were the first on this list. If you’ll give us your name and address, and then you may begin DELELLIS: Okay. Tony Delellis, 28-1177 Old Railroad Way in Pepeekeo. I would just like to speak to what the property means to me. I own and operate Kapohokine Adventures. I know enough to tell you that 2008 for tours was terrible and 2009 wasn’t much better. We managed to increase our sales and our gross revenues by more than 30 percent, and a lot of it is due to opportunities like Mr. Carlile’s. We added six jobs in Hilo, another four in Kona. From what I understand the operation of the zipline will add another twenty plus jobs. These are all things I think are very important. Mr. Carlile has a vision for his property. He wants to keep the footprint looking basically the same as it does today. He’s trying to bring in activities that will make a spectacular guest experience but not include a lot of development; and that’s why I’ve become involved in what he does. I’ve got several such partnerships around the island and they’ve all been very lucrative; and this one promises to be good for us, my staff and the community as well. So I’d like to thank you all for at least bringing it this far and, you know, I look forward to working with Mr. Carlile in the future. Thanks. WOODWARD: All right, thank you for your testimony. Any questions for Mr. Deleliis? Okay, seeing one, Mr. Domeck. DOMECK: I’m Todd Domeck, 29-2187 Old Mamalahoa Highway in Hakalau. I am the owner of Go Zip LLC which is a Hawaii-based company that operates Zipline Tours on Maui and hopefully here on the Big Island. And the reason we do that is because it’s a low environmental impact fun activity for families and it’s an opportunity for us to bring folks out and teach them 8 EXHIBIT B