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WATANABE: Yeah, okay. Why don’t we start with you on this end? Sir, name and address. NELSON: Keaka Nelson, PO Box, well, my address is 14-3499 Mauna Kea Road in Pahoa. I would just like to make a brief statement. I’m not going to argue semantics. I’m going to merely comment on the proposal here, and specifically the medical clinic that is planning to go in. We are in a crisis of sorts and we do need doctors. We need a facility. These doctors have been trying for the past year to find a place that’s suitable and that they can accept insurance. The other struggle is finding a place that is willing to fund the necessary improvements to make this facility usable for insurance purposes. Business loans are hard to get these days, as you all know. What we have here is a landlord who is willing to build to suit and make a facility that is rentable and usable for these purposes. The door is, the opportunity is knocking on the door. We have the doctors, we have the space, we have the people. All we need is the necessary, the letter of the law of what can be done there and what can’t. So, you know, if we have a facility, this might be able to treat up to 6,000 patients a year. I say we take this. So that’s all I have to say. Thank you. WATANABE: Thank you. Any questions? Doesn’t look like it. Thank you. You may be seated. ROSTAU: Rob Rostau. WATANABE: Oh, Rob, I’m sorry. ROSTAU: Yeah, it’s okay. WATANABE: Go ahead. ROSTAU: So my name Rob Rostau. My address is 17-7849 North Kulani Road in Mt. View, Hawaii 96771. And so I am a chiropractor involved with Pahoa Natural Health that’s looking at renting the space. And I myself am not involved in so much of the process as the other doctors cause I’m newer here. I’ve been here about two months. And, but what I’ve seen and what I’ve heard going around and giving testimony also, the people that we had, there is a great need in this place. And I know from what the doctors have gone through that the commercial space is very limited. And in my limited looking around the island, I’ve been all over the island since I’ve been here, looking at spaces myself, it is very limited, and, especially, again, like Keaka just said, someone who is willing to work with us on trying to move in and meet the community’s needs. There seems to be a great need down there. There’s a great lack of insurance providers. Again, we need at least a special use permit to get on most insurance plans. Especially for myself Chiro Plan which treats County workers, there’s nobody down there providing in that whole area which is quite a large group of people. So this would be an ideal location again for our uses. As far as I know if that’s not, you know, a viable option we’re going to have to start looking in Hilo. And, again, that’s a large percentage of the population down there that’s not getting care that they could really use. I think that’s about the main points I have 13 EXHIBIT B