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GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Hanson. Any questions? DOMINGO: Mr. Chairman? GRAHAM: Commissioner Domingo? DOMINGO: Mr. Hanson, from what you’re saying is that your association has not made a decision for or against but that you need further time to discuss the issues? HANSON: That’s correct. And we were also having more meetings with the people in the area so that we can decide how this is going to benefit the community, the Pepeekeo community. We don’t care about the outsiders. I mean you’ve got to remember Pepeekeo started with self-help people building their own homes. They came in out of the homes that the plantation had down there. And we’ve got a couple of self-help programs that were already developed inside of Pepeekeo on the land there. So, you know, we’re not against self-help, we just want to take this thing as it goes along and don’t want to hurry it up in case there’s mistakes, like there were with other projects in the past where there have been mistakes, you know. DOMINGO: In your meetings so far that you’ve held, have you invited the developers to sit in on the meetings? HANSON: We’ve talked to developers, we went to one of their meetings back in January. We invited them to a meeting in Pepeekeo, the association, in the community building; and we’ve had Yagong there and he brought some department heads that he didn’t fill them in on what they were there for. And we just need more time to, you know, get this thing feathered out so we can, you know, we know what’s going on so that the people feel more comfortable with what’s going on, you know. The community, we need to find out, you know, if the land is going to be perking out from cesspools or what have you, and all the rest of this kind of stuff. You know, if you don’t know what perking out means, that means when you dig a hole, put water in it and you’ve got so many minutes to run down; and if it doesn’t run down, that means the land isn’t suitable for a cesspools, you know. DOMINGO: Have the developers made any request to come and sit with the community organization to brief you folks on the project? HANSON: Yeah, they’ve been there and we’ve had meetings with them, and we’ve had meetings with Yagong. And we had a meeting last Wednesday; and that’s how this letter was written that I gave to you. Because there were about 40 or 45 people there and this was a general consensus of the people in a community that we would like to, you know, have more time to just talk to people in the community and see how this thing goes and just kind of slow it down a little bit, you know. Thank you. GRAHAM: All right. Ms. Miyasaka? MIYASAKA: Hi! My name is Susan Miyasaka and I live in Pepeekeo. And I am one of the neighbors who is close to this proposed project; but I hope you do not discount what I’m saying because I know what it’s like to live in this neighborhood. I know what it’s like to drive EXHIBIT D 12