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RODRIGUES:Sure. <br />GRAHAM:Okay. <br />SIRACUSA:Mr. Chair? <br />GRAHAM:Commissioner Siracusa? <br />SIRACUSA:Yes. Mr. Rodrigues, you addressed the question about the delays caused <br />th <br />by the earthquake and since then. But Mr. Miranda got his building permit on March 8 of <br />2006; and so between then and the earthquake he had seven months to get the pad built and put <br />th <br />up that building and do all the rest of this stuff. And, of course, between that March 8 when he <br />got the building permit and August when we had granted him the special permit he had a lot of <br />time then, too. And can you explain to us or do you want us to wait for Mr. Miranda to come <br />before us to explain what were those delays and were they above and beyond his ability to, you <br />know, with the acts of God or whatever, or is it just that he was being flakey? <br />RODRIGUES:Ill take that one on, Mr. Miranda may supplement that if there is a <br />continuance. But my recollection as his counsel and observing the situation, that delay was <br />caused by two factors. That prefab, that building that hes putting up with the concrete pad I <br />think is 300 feet by 100 feet, is a special order prefab building from the mainland. So theres <br />two components to that. The factory on the mainland has to make it on order. They dont have a <br />warehouse full of those things; and that has to be shipped here. The other component is cash <br />payment; and my recollection is the cash payment on that thing was $100,000 cash. And <br />Mr. Miranda operates in the old style so he raised the money, so that caused the delay. I believe <br />thatthebuildingitselfcameinintheearlyfall,Icanttellyouexactlywhatdate.Butfrom <br />March of 06 when he got the permit until that time or from the time that the special permit was <br />granted in August of 05 -- I cant give you all the details but I know there was a lot of -- in fact, <br />the contractor who happens to be Monty Miranda, his son who is a licensed general contractor, I <br />know that they both went to the mainland and visited three factories to make their decision on <br />which type of building to buy and which would be consistent with a concrete pad and all that. So <br />there was travel. To make a long story short, Ms. Siracusa, theres a trip to the mainland, there <br />was cash money, there was shipping to Hawaii; and what you see in our exhibit is on the ground <br />and coming up as we speak. But it did take more time than they thought. I hope I answered your <br />question. Its not precise. Mr. Miranda could be more pr²cise than I can be. <br />GRAHAM:Thanks, Mr. Rodrigues. Mr.Yuen, my sense was what was the difficulty <br />here was coming up with the site plan and the final plan approval and all that. It really hadnt <br />had anything to do with building this particular building. It wasnt on the timeline. Am I correct <br />in that assumption? <br />YUEN:Well, yes. We didnt make him put up a building in the conditions of <br />approval. So, yes, youre correct. And let me, while youre here, and were fine with having a <br />continuance, we understand the medical problems. But when we had the hearing on the special <br />permit which the Department opposed, you said, representing the applicant, that you were going <br />to move all the equipment to this low area on the property, one acre low area where it was not <br />going to be visible. The equipment is an eyesore up on the ridge there. So the special permit <br />8EXHIBIT C <br /> <br />