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GRAHAM:Okay. Do we have any questions? Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Yes. Some of the stuff that I scribbled over the margins here on my paperwork had to do with what I felt also as you do that we should be looking at more than just transportation and water. And yet I couldnt say I wouldnt want to put down that every area that were looking at has to have a park or a school because different areas have different needs. And do you feel that there should be some flexibility built in to add on the possibility of other infrastructure requirements based on individual situations, or do you feel that that would be too vague? TAVARES:It sounds kind of vague. I believe in flexibility. But I think what we have to do first is maybe define the boundaries of a community, and maybe put together community councils or something where, you know, youll get good feedback fromthepeoplethatarethereandwhattheyneed.Youknow,forexample,inmyarea,I call Volcano, the Mt. View, my area, upper Puna. Its a big place, you know. Fern Forest is 8,500 acres but my neighbors are in the subdivisions all around me, too. So, theres Cooper Center, and that works for Volcano and it works for the subdivisions across the street from Volcano. And then theres nothing until you get to, Mt. View has a school and a library, but then theres nothing for communities. The communities are all on their own, all on our own. Our community has a 3-acre lot that they had to sue the developers to get and we havent really been able to develop it because were not a rich community. So we have a place where the community can gather, but, you know, staying dry might be the question. But other communities, yeah, I think every community kind of has an idea of what they need, what would help their communities better. I dont know if that answers your question. SIRACUSA:Well, sort of. I was thinking, of course we all always think of our own situations that we know best, so naturally I was thinking of mine. And in my community, we dont have utility poles, so we dont have telephone service. And were in a dead spot so cell phone service is very spotty and unreliable. And thats one of the types of infrastructure that I feel in my community we would really need because thats a matter of public safety. If you cant call the ambulance, you know, or you cant call for the fire truck it doesnt matter if the road is adequate, which it isnt, for fire trucks to come in if you cant call them in the first place. And so my feeling for my community is we would, you know, besides water which we have plenty of, 200 inches, and besides transportation needs, we would certainly in my community feel that the ability to have some kind of telecommunications contact with the outside world would be one of the necessary infrastructure things that we would think should be in place before more density happens. And so I was just wondering if you had thoughts along those lines. TAVARES:I do indeed. Well, for example, in Fern Forest I guess we pay for our own telephone lines to this, an SSPP Program. I dont know what that stands for and I wasnt involved in starting it up. But the people in the neighborhood who live there, I guess when it was first developed, some of them wanted telephone services, so they went to the electric company and got this plan. But what happens is every person who wants 14EXHIBIT D