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YOUNG:We then, after receiving Mr. Elys letter, we then had our engineersgo out to the property and do some calculations based on both an 80-footanda 100-foot tower. The results came back, which were submitted to Mr. Love. The results came back such that it is too far to the Pahoa side to be able to provide coverage all the way back to Keaau, such that if we were to put a tower in that general Ainaloa community area that a second tower would still be needed between Orchidland towards Keaau. So rather than looking at just one antennae tower at Orchidland, wed be looking at one at Ainaloa and finding another site close towards Keaau. Again, studies were prepared and documents were sent with some maps showing the coverage pattern for site at Ainaloa versus without a site there. SIRACUSA:Thank you. And Id like to ask Mr. Ely if he has anything to add to that, to elaborate on? ALAMEDA:Pleasedo.Youmaybeabletoaskthat,exceptthosewhoareanswering please answer the question and not go into a testimony or go tangential. Commissioner Siracusa? Go ahead. ELY:Yes, I would like to address -. ALAMEDA:Please speak into the mike, in the mike please. ELY:Oh, sorry. Yes, I would like to address that. Verizon did, after the Planning Commission hearing, the contested case hearing in late November, go out to the site and made their first radio propagation measurements and determined that it was not acceptable. We questioned whether or not they had actually made these measurements based on a higher tower because their claim conflicts directly with the report of their engineer, engineering department. And I quote from a letter from a Debra Adams, their engineer, Hopefully they will answer your question regarding whether or not Verizon Wireless can co-locate on a T-Mobiles existing tower. The implication of this is clearly that they didnt look at putting in a new tower, they looked at co-locating on the shorter T-Mobile tower. ALAMEDA:Thank you for answering the question directly. I appreciate that. Also, fellow Commissioners, if you find that the question is not being answered directly, please just jump in and ask that the question be directly answered. Commissioner Graham. GRAHAM:I had a question for Mr. Torigoe. A substantial part of the discussion at the contested case hearing as we read the minutes and all really was about alternatives. But, you know, were being asked to grant a special permit; and when I look at our rules and I look at the law, I dont see any part of it that says, you know, if theres no better alternative you should grant it or anything like that. So Id like it if he could give us a legal direction of how we should view this whole issue of alternatives. ALAMEDA:Thank you, Commissioner Graham. Mr. Torigoe? TORIGOE:Yes, thank you. Ultimately I think we should probably ask the parties, you know, for input on that as well. But just very generally, I think, in the past in various special 7EXHIBIT B