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roping in the afternoon and a party in the evening. All right? And so it’s, the number of events then really is restricted just by the nature of the type of facility that it is. The other issue that was raised is that when the Police Department commented, and you’ll see their comments in their entirety in your background report, is that they were concerned about the issue of special events, because they felt it was ill-defined. And so what we’ve tried to do is define it in a way by saying, you know, okay, no concert, no tourism facilities; and we also said that we understand that we, that certain events may need security. And what we would like to do is to work with the Police Department and come up with a policy as far as the number of people that might be at a particular event, the type of event, and whether or not alcohol would be served or not to determine how many police officers should be hired by security. The Andersons don’t put on these special events. Somebody is going to rent the arena and do the Relay For Life. Well, in the Relay For Life you don’t have a lot of come and go traffic, you don’t have alcohol, you have a limited number. So maybe for that type of event, you know, one or two police officers is fine. For something like a wedding party, there might be more required. But we would like to work with the Police Department to establish that. Because what that does then is for the Andersons is it limits their liability because these police officers, if somebody wants to rent the facility for an event like that, they have to hire the security to make sure that there’s no liability there, either for the community or for themselves and their sons. There were some concerns about the speakers. And when the Andersons initially moved in they had some speakers that are different than they are now and apparently were very loud. And when they had roping at the arena the neighbors could hear the speakers. Those speakers have now been changed. All right? And according to Mrs. Federick when we met she doesn’t hear things any more. But to make sure that that’s not going to be a problem, we’ve agreed to two conditions. One being that the direction of the speakers be towards the south or toward the highway and not towards her residence. The second thing is that we said we would comply with Department of Health noise regulations for the Agricultural District, which I believe is 70 decibels at the boundary. So those are the things that we had agreed to put into the conditions to try to address some of her concerns. And you’ll be hearing in a few minutes from Mr. Higgins that there are other issues that they have, and I will let them speak to that. And we will, obviously, have our comments on any concerns that they have. We’ve tried to be a good neighbor here, we’re trying to provide an opportunity for this. I know there are some concerns about the commercial nature of this. But you have to understand the scope of this. We’re talking about, you know, a limited number of events. I mean even if there were 20 events per year and it was rented at $500 a night, you’re talking about $10,000. That doesn’t even pay the property taxes on this property. So this is not designed as a commercial venture per se. This is not a money maker. The cost of the arena was in excess of $1 million. So that’s not a very good business plan. All right? We’re trying to provide services to the community. The country markets have been successful. People are excited about coming here. The farmer market aspect of it, the produce have always been big sellers in Waimea. The other vendors have an opportunity now to sell items to make money in an economy that is not that great; and we’re happy to support that. That’s all the comments I have at this time. If you have any questions, we’ll be happy to answer them. WOODWARD: Commissioner Domingo? DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What’s the direction of the wind at that property? MOOERS: It’s, primarily the trades blow east. DOMINGO: So it comes from the Honokaa direction? 4 EXHIBIT D