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GIFFIN: Before we go any further, it was brought to my attention that nobody has actually given their resident address, so we need to do that for the record, please. LIM: Okay, I’m sorry. I’m Steve Lim, and my business address is 121 Hawai‘i. GIFFIN: Thank you. Mr. Chock? CHOCK: Good morning. Kyle Chock, Kamehameha Investment Corporation, 78- Street. GIFFIN: Thank you. SPENCER: Joe Spencer. My address is Royal Poinciana Drive, Kailua-Kona. GIFFIN: Thank you very much. It might be a good idea just to review for all of us the reason for your request. LIM: Thank you very much. As you know, Ms. Chair, you were here back in 2000 when you first approved this Use Permit for the golf course and SMA Use Permit No. 413. We are here today some years later because of the ongoing planning efforts by Kamehameha Investment Corporation. Some of you may know, in the mid-2000 or so Kamehameha Investment Corporation engaged in a search for a master developer for the Keauhou Resort. As indicated in our application that anentity was formed, called Keauhou Resort Development Venture LLC, which was a Kamehameha Investment and Brookfield Homes Hawai‘i entity. That venture didn’t work out, and as of 2009 the Keauhou Resort Development Venture LLC entity was dissolved and Kamehameha Investment took back the land and the assets that were contributed as part of the venture. Currently, the Kamehameha Investment and Kamehameha Schools are in a master planning effort to focus on the educational and cultural and the commercial type of activities that are going to be planned for the entire Keauhou Resort. And this golf course Use Permit and the SMA Permit is part of that; it plays into things like the public access trail that Commissioner Housel was asking about, and also the development of infrastructure and amenities for the resort. We are in the, like I said, we are in the process of finalizing that with consultants, and hope to within the next 18 to 24 months come out and start to engage with the public and the County with respect to our plans. As you know, the Kona Community Development Plan was adopted in the interim, so we are going to be matching up our proposed development with that also. There are some challenges because of the nature of the project is that we have developed areas already; so matching up the exact perimeters ofthe Kona CDP with what’s already there is a little bit of a challenge, but we have our planners and engineers working on that at this time. GIFFIN: Good, good. Mr. Chock, did you want to add anything? CHOCK: No, Madam Chair, thank you. GIFFIN: Okay. How about you, Mr. Spencer? SPENCER: No, ma’am. Thank you. 4 EXHIBIT A