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always like this. We let it become this way. We hope that by fixing these windows others will be inspired to help and a sense of community pride and ownership will be restored. Therefore, we are in great support of and ask you to adopt the EnVision Downtown Hilo 2025 Five-year Action Plan Update. Thank you for this opportunity to speak. WOODWARD: All right. Well, thank you very much. Thank you for your testimony. Do we have any questions for Ms. Kurohara? Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA: Not so much questions, a comment. Mr. Koehnen, you noticed you had paper notes? Megan has her phone. KUROHARA: I-phone. IWASHITA: I think she’s using her phone. She’s texting herself. KUROHARA: No. I turned it on airplane mode so it won’t ring. IWASHITA: No, I just wanted to note that Mr. Koehnen talked about change. It’s right in front of you. Megan, I appreciate your testimony. I also wanted to note I appreciate Mr. Koehnen’s testimony. And I guess I’ll note for you, and also Mr. Koehnen said change is inevitable, growth is optional. So I think in our, from my perspective that’s how I’m viewing our review of this, is that we’re really looking at how the change is going to happen, and to the extent that we can as a County, as a government, focus that change towards growth in the Downtown Hilo area. Thank you again, Megan, for your testimony; and your demonstration of modern technology. WOODWARD: All right, thank you, Commissioner Iwashita. Okay, Ms. Masuhara, if you would give us your name and address and then you may begin. MASUHARA: My name is Charlene Masuhara. I live at 1437 Kahalani Street in Hilo. Actually I came in support of Megan, but I just wanted to share a few things. First of all when we first began working on this plan, and by the way we submitted a written testimony, and so you should all have copies of that. But when we began this process I think that the one thing that amazed me was that it was a collaborative effort. I think that young people today look very wary on government people. Like, you know, you folks are making all the decision and we don’t get a say. But I think that this opportunity, and I get choked up because I’m an educator and I sometimes think that government doesn’t work for us, excuse me. WOODWARD: She should have been supporting you. MASUHARA: I’m sorry. I shouldn’t, I don’t know why I’m falling apart. But, anyway, I just wanted to say that I thought it was very much of a collaborative effort. We went to several meetings where people from the community, there were architects, there were students who had an opportunity to say their piece. There were business people, there were government people. And so the vision that came out wasn’t, it wasn’t one person’s vision. It was a vision of a lot of people. And that’s really what I wanted to say. I’m sorry. People who know me will know that 6 EXHIBIT B