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WOODWARD: Oh, Quiston, okay, sorry. MACQUISTON: Box 5779, Keaau. WOODWARD: Go ahead. MACQUISTON: Okay. I’m really going to assume that the work in this area is to enhance water activity. But I think there’s something that’s a little bit greater if the County is worried about the safety, is the pollution in that dead-end bay. You’ve got the cruise ships up by the pier, the tugs, the soil barges, the oil storage, you’ve got a prevailing wind coming right into the bay. We’ve got a spillway that drains the golf course with the toxins and stuff forever in there, plus the sewage pump area across the street which has occasional leaks. Now I would never swim there. I’m down there three or four times a week kayaking. So I would never swim there. I’ve had tourists ask me would you swim there. I say, no, I wouldn’t. But they do. Rarely do you see tourists in there; but when they are I’m thinking, well, whatevers. The other thing is the spillway. That was put there for some reason. And it takes a runoff from the high, from the street out front plus whatever is coming off that herbicide, toxicide (sic) area across the road. The other, I’m going to, racing through here cause I’ve got a couple of things. On the other side on the Kalanianaole way, that’s not accessible for kayaks. You’re still as far away as if I parked down by Coconut Grill and humped it up the road. The, there’s not enough accessibility if you only have one ramp there. And the ramp has got a gate on it and that’s sort of like an imposing thing. And like Mr. said here if you’re humping your kayak from the other parking lot, where are you supposed to hump it? Have you ever lift a kayak? That damn things weigh about 80 pounds so you’re lucky to, you know, be able; and I’m talking about senior citizens. I’m not talking about young guys who can hold it over their heads and do the hula. I’m talking about guys who are a little bit older. You know, they need every bit of energy they can get to just to get the kayak in and out of the water. As to the SUP, the standup paddlers, they’re in the bay, there are no problems. There’s no problem at all in that bay with the people there. The people that park on the bay in the side thing are courteous, they’re ohana, they all know each other. This is their place. And what we’re doing right now is planning to take it away. I’m hearing from the County, everything we went to look at is a proposal. We got this proposal, we’ve got -. Where’s your hard plan? I mean, there was a meeting and I tried to go to it but they changed the date like Mr. said. But where is the hard plan? Proposal, we’re looking into this, we’re looking into that. You better look into it and get it into somebody so that we can say, okay, let’s tear it apart or let’s approve it. That’s all I have. WOODWARD: All right. Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Macquiston? Okay, seeing none, if you folks will be seated, we have four more people that have signed up to testify. And if they would approach the table and have a seat - Pat Moore, Tim Rees, Kiko Johnston-Kitazawa and Elfie Wilkins. All right, if I could swear you in first. If you’ll raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: Yes. Yes, sir. 14 EXHIBIT C