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YUEN: Yeah, no, that isn’t correct. The Community Development Plan will become law when it’s adopted, which would hopefully be -. We are shooting for an adoption in 2008 because both the administration that’s myself and the Mayor and say Roy Takemoto who’ve been working on the Plan are out in December 2008. The present Council terms are out in December 2008. So we anticipate we would get the Plan to the Council, you know, the current Council sometime in 2008. We would like to have them to have enough time to pass it in that timeframe. But it does become law when it’s passed. There may be aspects that call for General Plan amendments; and if the Community Development Plan contradicts a portion of the General Plan and says you have to amend the portion of the General Plan, then the General Plan would control until that amendment happens. We are working actually to have as little of that as possible, you know, because, and to make the Community Development Plans. For the most part they are consistent and they refine General Plans; they don’t actually contradict it. But it would take affect upon adoption in hopefully sometime in 2008 or whenever. WATANABE: Thank you. DOMINGO: Yeah, I was with the understanding that the dog will always wag the tail, and not the tail the dog. So but anyway, in any event, after listening to Commissioner Bowman when she said that, you know, she probably wouldn’t mind having more time, and because she’s being very much involved in the Kohala Community Development Plan, you know, again I’m just going to make a statement and say, I yield, and whether it’s 60 or 90 days, let it be. WATANABE: Any further comments? BOWMAN: I have another question. You indicated an urgency to get it to the Council for approval before the end of ’08? YUEN: Well, we would like the current -. We know that we are going to get the Plans to the Council some time in ’08 or given any of the timeframes, but then the Council has to take some time to look at it. And then, and you have to remember the Council gets into their election cycle; they are already sort of in it, but it becomes in earnest. So we are certainly trying to get it to one group of people that -, because if you start to have hearings and you have a group of people who are looking at the Plan, and to have enough time for them to vote on it while you have the one group. And it’s not because of the composition of the Council. That’s up to the voters to decide. We know just from announcements that people have made that there will be some changes in the composition. But just from the standpoint of if you don’t get it enacted by the end of the Council term, which end in, their last meeting would be at the end of November of ’08, then it has to carry over to a new group of people that haven’t, some of them haven’t sat through the hearings and gone through that whole process. So that’s the timeframes that we are working under. And all the Plans, although – we have Kona, Puna, North Kohala and South Kohala – and although North and South Kohala actually started much later, we had done a lot of the groundwork in North and South Kohala as far as surveying community attitudes. So they are catching up. Kona is ready to go to – if you want to know the nitty-gritty of the timeframes – Kona should get voted on by the Steering Committee in late March, and then come up to the Planning Commission right after that. North and South Kohala and Puna are trailing a little bit, but probably a couple of months behind. EXHIBIT B 14