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th This is a continued hearing from our January 15 meeting for T-Mobile West Corporation. They are requesting a 150-foot tower. They are requesting a Use Permit to allow a 150-foot monopole telecommunication tower and associated equipment on 900 square feet of land. This is located in Kurtistown. Just to refresh your memory a little bit, but I won’t go into great detail, at our last meeting the meeting was continued to allow the applicant to address some concerns of the Commissioners. The applicant has recently submitted a letter addressing those concerns as well as a response to a letter that was received from Marilyn Richardson. We have received several or numerous letters, some of support, some of opposition, from the community members. The applicant, as well as in her letter, has had a community meeting addressing, trying to address some of the concerns of the community; and that was also addressed in her letter. I won’t go into great detail. I just wanted to let you know about these recent submittals that have been brought to the Commission’s attention. WATANABE: Thank you. With that, maybe, maybe in the interest of time we could bring up the testifiers. I do have four people from the public who signed up to testify. And so maybe if we bring them up first and allow them to testify, this will speed the process up and that T-Mobile representatives will be able to address those subsequent to the testimony, in addition to explaining the additional material they provided. Yeah? So let me go ahead and take that course of action. I have Damien Shrinski. Yeah, please come up, sir. Sam Sakamaki, and Avis Nomura, and Jonathan Sambueno, buero. SAMBUENO: Sambueno. WATANABE: Sambueno. Avis is here, yeah? Yeah, yeah. NOMURA: I’m here. WATANABE: Okay, let me swear you all in. Would you raise your right hand, please, all of you. Yeah, do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: Yes. WATANABE: Okay. Now this is the format we’d like to follow. When you have your turn to testify, please state your name and address for the record, and then you may begin your testimony. And then at all times please speak into the mike cause we’re, you know, we’ll have a transcript of this. Yeah? Since the microphone is closest to you, sir, maybe we can start with you. SHRINSKI: Good morning. My name is Damien Shrinski. I live at 17-550 Volcano Road. I’m the pastor and a resident at Kurtistown Assembly of God. When I was approached by the development company that was applying to or asking to lease our property for this tower, I had some initial concerns and spoke to him, the gentleman that was initially giving me this information. And I have a small family, I mean I have a family with small kids. I’m going to be living the closest to where this tower is going to be built; and so I had definitely had some concerns. And I was also at the community meeting; and I felt that the debate that was going on EXHIBIT A 2