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GRAHAM:Thank you. You may be seated. KRUEGER:Thank you. GRAHAM:And if youre going to address my inquiry or whatever else you think is relevant at this moment, just start with what you have to say with your name and address, please. KRUEGER:Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Commission. My name is Dennis Krueger. My address is 75-5722 Kuakini Highway, Kailua-Kona; and I represent Mr. Ibettson. Mr. Hayashi is correct that I did contact him approximately two weeks ago and asked that this matter be placed back on the calendar. My reason for doing that was for several reasons. But in response to Mr. Hayashis comments about Mr. Matsukawas knowledge, I did in fact communicate with Mr. Matsukawa, I did explain to him why I was askingthatthematterbeplacedbackontheagendaforthePlanningCommission.He acknowledged that, he agreed with that, he accepted that. Two days ago I received the same copy of the letter that the Commission received from Mr. Masukawa, which surprised me. And I called him to ask him why, you know, he hadnt said anything; and he said, apparently he had forgotten about it. And I told him that it was our intention today to come to the Commission and to ask the Commission to proceed with this matter, not withstanding his request two days ago to continue it. There are several reasons for that. One is, as Mr. Torigoe has mentioned, that the Planning Department has noticed a violation to Mr. Ibettson claiming that hes doing business as a bed and breakfast. But its based upon the fact that he has a website in existence that has been in existence for approximately 14 years, and it was based upon a previous bed and breakfast that he had; and he really doesnt want to take that website down. And I dont understand all the complications of it, but apparently by removing that website it would be very difficult to get in the position that he is in now. He has put a statement on the website that hes not accepting reservations, that hes not going to be doing business. But we dont want the issue of that to be clouded further by waiting an indeterminate amount of time for the Planning Commission to decide whether or not Mr. Ibettson should be entitled to a bed and breakfast permit. Thats one reason. The other reason that we asked the Commission to continue this matter in January was because we were going to go to mediation and try to resolve this issue through mediation. Since that time the Hawaii Conference Foundation has indicated they would not agree to mediate the issue, any issue, having to do with bed and breakfasts because as far as they were concerned that didnt involve the Hawaii Conference Foundation. Number two, in an informal meeting that we had with Mr. Masukawa and Mr. Kaiawe in my office to try to resolve this matter short of mediation, Mr. Kaiawes position at that time was that the only way that he would agree to resolve this was to have Mr. Ibettson remove his house from the property. Given that we said, you know, if thats your position we really cant agree to mediate this thing because thats not an acceptable resolution as far as Mr. Ibettson is concerned. So those are the reasons were back here; and thats the reason were asking the Commission to proceed with this. Mr. Ibettsons health is also an issue, you know; and he really doesnt want to 3EXHIBIT E