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ALAMEDA: Thank you very much for your testimony, appreciate it. Sir, could you please state your name and address for the record. T. WALTON: Tom Walton, 75-6060 Kuakini Highway. I live in Kona Sea Villas and I’m Vice-President of the Board of Directors at Kona Sea Villas. And I’ve been asked to come here by the Board today basically just to ask for a continuation so that we can develop a statement. Currently we feel that we’re under-advised; and I’m not prepared to make a statement today. ALAMEDA: Okay. I need to check with my Corp. Counsel here. We never had a testifier who asked for a continuation. Mr. Torigoe, what’s your response to that? TORIGOE: Well, Mr. Chairman, if you -. I mean, it’s certainly within the discretion of the Commission to continue a contested case hearing in the interest of justice so that -. But, you know, I guess you want to find out what it is maybe that they would like to address. ALAMEDA: Okay. TORIGOE: So it’s something that you can do, but you would probably want to have a good reason for doing that at this stage. ALAMEDA: Yeah. Well, Mr. Walton, is there anything that you would like to -? Do you need to gather evidence or -? T. WALTON: We’re concerned about access and egress, we’re concerned about construction access, and certainly we have some of the same concerns that the lady from Alii Lani shared with us concerning disaster evacuation. And there’s also some concern among residents there about the limitation of the view. As I said we’re just really not prepared to make a statement because we haven’t gathered enough information from the residents and from the other Board Members. So we feel that there has been an insufficient notification. ALAMEDA: All right. I have some thoughts. Let me just put it on the table and see if Corp. Counsel can help me with this. This agenda item has been on our agenda for a while and it has been back and forth with the Hearings Officer and all. So, I mean, to just, you know, my initial thought is no. You know, and if you have a thought, or you have a comment, or testimony that you’d like to do it, then now is the time. But, you know, I’m relatively new in this process, so I’d like to also open it up for my Fellow Commissioners to, or our Corp. Counsel to maybe -. If you disagree with, you know, my inclination to move forward then please voice yourself. Mr. Torigoe? TORIGOE: Yeah. Basically just, you know, if there has been some kind of lack of proper notice, that would be something that you would probably want to look into. If there has not been a lack of proper notice, as you noted, it is very late in this process to put things off. And, certainly, if you are considering any kind of continuance that needs to be discussed with the contested case parties, to see if they have objections or other suggestions as to how this could be handled. EXHIBIT B 4