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no chance of jeopardizing that funding. That’s what this has come down to now. There’s no need to rush the rest of this plan, there’s no need to waste the work on it. They could very easily go forward with the restroom plan segregated out of here. And do that, and bring up the rest of it when there’s a proper shoreline certification and the elevations have been looked into. At present I calculate every footing being wet when it is implanted probably 40 percent of the time the way our tide elevations work and the elevations of this construction. I find that unacceptable. WOODWARD: All right, thank you. REES: Thank you for the latitude. WOODWARD: Let me, any questions for Mr. Rees? Yes, Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA: So just in my mind the, like on this map, well, -. So this dotted line where it says 40 feet shoreline setback -? REES: That’s correct. IWASHITA: Your testimony is that that’s not a, may not be a correct line? REES: In certain areas it definitely is not correct because it does trace the, what was a guesstimated shoreline. And a survey was conducted. Some of those survey pins are very accurate as far as elevation goes. But as I stated about the function of here we have a sensitive issue where a one-inch raise in tide or a just slightly larger wave at the peak of the tide can push the highest splash of the high tide of the year 20 to 30 feet inland. And that is happening right stst now, it happened January 31, January 1. And at two or three weeks before that we had about a 9 to, at the biggest, I would say a 12-inch very small wave that came in and completely arranged, rearranged all of these shoreline areas. And I’ve got video evidence of that. It’s not to thwart the plan. It’s just to be taken into consideration. WOODWARD: And as that would affect the proposed improvements you’re saying that where some of the, I guess, the new landscaping would occur that that would essentially not work? REES: Mr. Iwashita, I’m not absolutely sure that -. For instance, the right side of the plan where there’s that loop sidewalk portion, that is definitely far within the current shoreline. But that may not matter. As far as is it going to stop the major construction of this project? No, but it may be something that has to be redesigned out and say you can’t put that loop there. On what I call the fishing point, the middle point, and the point that has the interpretative sign on it with the existing ironwood tree, that has actually become an islet. The, the crushed coral is pushed through with water and washes down in what we would consider the inner bay close to this section where the gentleman here was speaking about that shelf. And one of the reasons why you have that shelf is because 80 years ago they laid in the rock layer. So you’ve got a man- made hardscape that erodes from underneath, and then it continually collapses. Parts of that eroded more than a foot just three weeks ago. And, again, it may not affect the restroom, the 19 EXHIBIT C