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MIZUKAMI: We do work mostly for the utilities, the power company, the phone companies, <br />the cable television companies. We build extensions, we also take care of their outage situations <br />when it occurs. Like let’s say even if a pole comes down off hours, you know, we have to go <br />there, pick up, you know, the argo truck to go out there, replace the pole, and run new lines, or <br />whatever else is needed. <br />DOMINGO: Are you a sole owner of the company? <br />MIZUKAMI: Yes, I am. <br />DOMINGO: I see. Do any of the employees that you have on payroll right now are used to <br />work on the macadamia nut farms? <br />MIZUKAMI: Yes. We’re kind of diversified in what we do, mainly because if one type of <br />business is slow at least they have something to do to earn a living. We work with a small core <br />of people, as I mentioned seven people. So we try to use the seven and not grow any more. The <br />rest of them we place in the labor service companies and draw them as we need them. This way <br />here we can pretty much guarantee our people full time employment. Sometimes they have to go <br />out in the mac nut field to work, but at least it’s something for them to do. <br />DOMINGO: Not asking for a definitive figure, but has there been a substantial amount of your <br />gross income derived from the farming operations? <br />MIZUKAMI: Very little. At this point none at all. Since we built the building, as I mentioned <br />the price dropped dramatically; and I’m pretty much giving the nuts at this point to one of the <br />neighbors so he can at least have enough to make a go. <br />DOMINGO: So Telecable Systems, Inc. is, are paying the wages of those people when they <br />work on the farm then? <br />MIZUKAMI: Pretty much so, yes. <br />DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. <br />WOODWARD: All right. Thank you, Commissioner Domingo. <br />AU: Commissioner, I’ve got a question. <br />WOODWARD: Yes, Commissioner Au. <br />AU: Can you tell me about that permit you pulled in 1999, from when you designed it to when <br />you pulled the permit, to when you were, during the construction phase then to now? Can you <br />just tell me about that, please? <br />MIZUKAMI: Yes. Well, as I mentioned we pulled the permit and constructed the building. <br />The actual construction was done by a contractor and assumed, I’m kind of at loss here because I <br />8 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />