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difficult to serve well. But they did not look at the existing use. The existing use, Reeds Bay is harbor, boating, water recreation, access to the water, protected water that’s calm even when the rest of the bay is rough. And when you take something like this and just say, oh, we’re going to make it something different, you’ve ignored the people who are using it. It’s a heavily used park. Did anybody go and look at how it’s used? Unfortunately, I have to say probably yes -. I asked my dad about this. I’m not against visitor industry. I make my livelihood from it. I’m a canoe builder and canoe sailor, I do school group things, also educational, but I make my livelihood from it as well. I said, dad, why do they want to close the launching and put a sidewalk and grass? He goes, if I was you I would look to certain downtown merchants who think if they make a thing like that they’ll get people to walk downtown from the cruise ship and spend money if they can only get those darn people out of there. This is not good. For one thing he said they won’t walk down there. Cruise ship wants to sell them a prebook -. (Timer ringing at this point). JOHNSTON-KITAZAWA: Is my three minutes up? WOODWARD: Yes. JOHNSTON-KITAZAWA: Okay, thank you. WOODWARD: All right, any questions? Commissioner Iwashita. JOHNSTON-KITAZAWA: I do have something else I would like to say if I may be allowed? WOODWARD: All right, sure. If you want to summarize that’d be fine. JOHNSTON- KITAZAWA: You have to work with other jurisdictions. In this case State DLNR Boating. Reeds Bay is the only mooring area in the whole archipelago that does not have any shoreside facility, no dinghy dock, no shower, no faucet. Why not? They never knew they needed it. The County always said it was fine to use it as the support place to launch your dinghy, pull up your boat, pull it into the sheltered part when it’s stormy. We’re up against some -. A mooring permittee. I have a canoe moored out there as well. They passed a new thing in the State that says, you’ve always been responsible for your boat if it goes on the rocks and it’s wrecked, you’ve got to clean it up. That’s good. Now they’ve said we can order you to, you can’t touch it and you’ve got to let us clean it up, and we’ll send you the bill. So we always take care of stuff. And the last sum -, last winter storm at 3:30 a.m. there were nine vehicles on the beach launching boats to go run extra anchors, chain, pull boats that were on the rocks off. There’s still two boats that went on the rocks. One was lost. County Parks has a bad habit of locking up parks at night. And you can tell I’m upset about this cause they arbitrarily without notification closed Honuapo Canoe Landing, putting blocks around, despite having put, yes -. Do you put input, do you get involved with meetings? Yes, I do. And very often you say the stuff and it just goes through anyway like that. So lot of people I talked to said no use go, it’s going to happen anyway. So today I said, well, I’ll come and say. But Reeds Bay historically has been the place. So I submit 21 EXHIBIT C