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NOMURA: That’s fine, that’s fine. Okay. I would like to bring out some points that I think need to be addressed at this point. Like the Pastor said there are no health effects. I did want to point out that the company did give us websites to look at; and the very website that I have in my testimony there quotes summaries from the website that say it’s still in a study and does not say that it is definitely with no ill effects. So I’d like you to pay attention to that part, especially on the No. 2 section. And I would like to say that a lot of people think it’s safe; and if it is safe, that’s fine. But because there is so much question now, I’m asking that the Commission use caution and your wisdom to postpone putting a tower in a residential area where there might be effects five years down the line, ten years down the line, like we’ve seen in other studies. Okay? So just to please keep that in mind, because this will involve the residents in the area, okay. My basic objection though is because it’s a residential property, not because of the health issues, okay. And the properties in Kurtistown are not very small in area, so this is why the residents have chosen to live there. A lot of them have purchased the land and have lived there, okay. It’s not perfect, but it is one of the few remaining communities that is not commercialized and thinks of money as a priority. I do have a problem that in not building the tower that the church may have to forego some kind of income, okay. Because churches are in a bad way now, especially with the economy. But I don’t feel that that is the issue at this point as far as what the money can be used, or how it’s going to be used. I feel that we need to concentrate on the zoning and the integrity of that zoning for the people who are living there and who based their residential situation, economy, everything else on the fact that it is a residentially zoned area and they’re kind of like protected from any other outside influences, okay. It will have an adverse effect on all of these people and things, and these are things that we can never recover once the tower goes up. So I ask that you do not approve the permit. There are certain things that I also need to go over because after meeting at the meeting itself and talking to various people, I need to point out that the service that T-Mobile wants to provide is very good for their customers as far as the signal and everything, but it’s not for the entire Kurtistown community as a whole, okay. So what we’re concerned about is the area, the Kurtistown group. It will help some people along the highway from other areas also but it’s not beneficial to the entire community, okay, just a few. There are issues on also permit use for the church itself on the property and allowing another permit use to go through on the same property. The issue of one tower, Jonathan brought out that there are problems with the co-location and everything else. We do know that there are restrictions. If the co-location interferes with T-Mobile’s use of the tower, they will not have another cell company co-locate on their tower, the same with other towers. Business-wise, if you can afford your own tower and you don’t have to answer to someone else, that would be good business to pay your own expenses and have the towers. So that does not mean that there will not be any other towers. Also at the meeting someone did bring that up; and one of the employees at T-Mobile did say they cannot guarantee that no other towers will be there, that everyone would be co-locating. The County can’t guarantee that, T-Mobile cannot guarantee that. The residents are the ones that will have to live with it. This tower itself may set a precedence for others; and that’s what we’re afraid of also, okay. EXHIBIT A 9