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ONO: Five minutes. KERN: Five-minute recess is happening. RECESSED – The Chair called a recess at 12:25 p.m. RECONVENED – The Chair reconvened the meeting at 12:35 p.m. KERN: Okay, Windward Planning Commission, coming back to order. Okay, back to the applicant, Pearl Bakery, SPP 10-111. I’d like to move to the public testimony part. We’re going to limit the public testimony to three minutes per person. At the time of three minutes comes we’ll signal you; and if you’ll just summarize, please, at that point. We do have five people signed up to testify. So I’m going to call three, the first three. Possibly more, I might have misspoke. Okay, right now we have five people signed up to testify. I’m going to call up the first three. In order, and in the order in which you’re called up is how you’ll testify; and then I’ll call up the last two, the finals. So we’ve got Sandra Sanoria. All right, come on up and have a seat at the table, Connie Haskell and Jay Fincher. And I’ll get all three to raise your hands. Raise your right hand. And do you swear to,or affirm to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: I do. Yes. KERN: Okay, and just before you begin with your testimony, give us your name and address, and you may begin. SANORIA: My name is Sandra Sanoria. I live at 11-3076 Kahaualea Road, right by Akatsuka. And Ididn’t actually know I would speak today, but just jotted a couple of notes, cause you said to bring up things that haven’t already been said. So my first thought was how great for us as individuals that live in that area, because I thought of the healthy choices that we don’t always have. And that in times of crises when we’re up the hill by the time we get down there’s nothing left, and how great to know a baker. And when I talked about healthy choices I thought about all the individual needs with health-related conditions and how knowing your baker one on one could meet those needs -- Gluten free or, you know, you have to have wheat, or if someone is a diabetic they can’t have this or that. But knowing this woman, Vickie Robeson, she gets to know the people around her. She just -. You know, automatically tell her what your needs are and she’ll come up with it. And I thought how great for us because we don’t always get that; and we have so many people that, you know, they can’t make it all the way to Hilo. And maybe you have to catch the bus, the bus comes by my road at 6:30 in the morning and you have to go all the way to town. You don’t get to come home until that night. So maybe you could catch that bus with your bicycle, go down, have a cup of coffee, get your bread, ride back. You’ve got exercise at the same time. And I just kept thinking that it would be a place for people to come together also and talk and to help their neighbors. And, you know, if there is an emergency we do get cut off in all the plans. It’s like, you know, just after the National Park road gets closed, Akatsuka or around in that area, the road gets closed, I think we need a bakery. And whatever the amount it is, I didn’t even know what it would cost for a loaf of bread. All I know is it’s way cheaper than driving in to Hilo when there’s a need. And I think that we need these typesof people in our community. And even though I live in the community, you know, I heard about this PC, I don’t even know the acronym, and I just sat there and I thought shame on me because I didn’t know. Because had I known I think I could have voiced something that I’m not voicing today. And I think somewhere along the line there wasn’t a consideration about the times when we do get cut off. And with the economy the way it is, and the job situation and you talk about cap and trade or green, the green zone, and carbon prints, this is local, you don’t have to bring it in. And she 18 EXHIBIT A