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SIRACUSA:And bus sheltersare really manini. Fred Blas built a bunch of them for free in Hawaiian Beaches. It was on the front page of the paper recently. So it seems to me like were just giving and giving and giving. And, as Chris said, a golf course is a, its a bogus thing because that area gets, its a rain forest, it gets over 200 inches of rain a year. Youd be playing with galoshes on, you know, if at all. And somehow I just feel very uncomfortable about this. It feels like theres something behind here that we dont know about, because it doesnt seem to make sense. ALAMEDA:Response? Mr. Director and then Commissioner McCall. YUEN:Im trying to be as candid as possible on my thinking on this. My thinking on this is, lets put this thing to bed. This is not going to happen. We put to them, pay $500,000 in a year if you want to keep your permit alive. If they pay the $500,000,Ithinkweshouldtakeitandbehappy,becauseIstilldonotthinkthat anybody is going to build a golf course at the end of Ainaloa Boulevard. And if they dont pay it, I will strenuously urge the Commission, I hope they will not come back and ask for another time extension because the whole, thats the whole idea behind this, is put it to bed. This is a project that for whatever reason their client in Japan wants to keep the permit alive. I hope nobody in Orchidland is thinking or in Ainaloa is thinking that this golf course is some day going to fix the highway, its going to fix Ainaloa Boulevard, because its just not -. Its dangling out there but its not a realistic option. So thats, the whole purpose of this is to have a put up or shut up payment date on this permit. So I would not focus on it being a million. You know, if a million never happens, thats still zero; if $10 million never happens, thats zero; if $100 million never happens, thats zero. SIRACUSA:Then I dont understand why theyre going through all this trouble going to Court and everything else. Why dont they just, you know, drop the whole thing? I mean, theyre talking about stuff like legal challenges, global economic malaise, that happens all the time everywhere, residual effect of the Sars epidemic that never happened in Hawai i, worldwide threat of terrorism. I dont see, I mean, it seems like such bogus reasons, you know; and I would love to see it go to rest. I would like to see that rain forest, you know, be preserved and the County Open Space Commission decide to buy that parcel for preservation. So I dont understand why we have to go through, through all this. ALAMEDA:Okay. We hear you. Let me just hear other Commissioners thoughts. Commissioner McCall? MCCALL:Yeah, my question like, maybe, Chris, Im not sure -. Just as a procedure, since now this is sort of bouncing between us and the Courts, a year from now if they ask for an extension and we deny a time extension, does it immediately go back to Judge Hara or -? SIRACUSA:Does it go away? 11EXHIBIT D