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DOMINGO: Okay, thank you. <br />GRAHAM: Further questions, Commissioners? <br />SIRACUSA: Yes. <br />GRAHAM: Commissioner Siracusa. <br />SIRACUSA: In your application you say that you’re selling coffee from other farmers <br />because your plants aren’t of an age yet to be producing. Does this mean that once your plants <br />are old enough and start producing you will no longer be selling other farmers’ products or will <br />you continue to do that? <br />PATTON: That’s a great question because our goal has always been to continue to <br />sell other coffee farmers’ products. We really, it’s just something we’ve always wanted to help <br />out with. We don’t want us to be our only sources of coffee. We want to continue to help them. <br />If I can share just another second’s worth of something that we did. It started probably about <br />four years ago. We had coffee farmers coming to us from Kau that were ready to give up. They <br />didn’t want to do this any more because they weren’t getting enough money for their product and <br />there wasn’t even any recognition at all for the Kau coffee product. And we began on faith <br />buying from them, paying them a really small amount. They let us have credit with them. And <br />as we sold their product we paid them. We have more than doubled our price to them now. We <br />were paying the Kau farmers, the Puna farmers and the Hamakua farmers the same amount of <br />money that Kona farmers are getting today; and we’re really proud of that and we hope that with <br />this permit we’re allowed to continue to do that. <br />GRAHAM: Thank you. Any other questions from Commissioners? We do have two <br />people signed up to testify today. So I think you all can go back now and we’ll take our two <br />testifiers. And thank you for your comments. I have Ronit Sanders and Mark Power. <br />SANDERS: It’s not on this issue. <br />GRAHAM: Oh, that’s my mistake. Thank you. All right then. <br />SIRACUSA: I’m willing to make a motion. <br />GRAHAM: We can start with a motion, fine. Commissioner Siracusa? <br />SIRACUSA: I move that the application for Special Permit (SP 07-000041) be <br />approved based on the Planning Director’s recommendation and proposed conditions. <br />IWASHITA: Second. <br />GRAHAM: Moved by Commissioner Siracusa, seconded by Commissioner Iwashita. <br />Mr. Watanabe? <br /> EXHIBIT B <br />7 <br /> <br />