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but also of Bruce Brothers, which is a restaurateur in Alaska, and he and his partner have a couple of restaurants there. So we are coming in with some background. BobÓs partner is an incredibly experienced restaurateur with a lot of experience in Restaurant is a holding name; thatÓs not going to be the name of the restaurant. So I just want to assure you we are not generic. But when we started this process, we had to have something. And so we are still looking for names and how we are going to call this. The building site we are talking about is 5,000 to 6,000 square feet. What we are doing as we go along at planning is we are reducing more and more of the covered area and looking at more and more open space. So our footprint will probably be in that area. We are really trying to minimize the amount of roof, and have this be as open as possible. People want to see the stars at night, and just that opening and with the ocean breezes it really is cool enough. The commercial building on the other side is something conceptual. We wanted to have full disclosure; we are not sure if weÓre going to do it. We are thinking about some possibilities there. There has been interest in art gallery. We donÓt know of any specific use, but for full disclosure we wanted to just let people know what we are thinking about in terms of the project. In terms of the restaurant concept, you know, one of the things, and we were not sure if we can do it, but the concept is -. This area is overgrown with kiawe, you couldnÓt see anything in there, and what we want the feel of the restaurant is somebody hacked through the kiawe and found this really cool, old building that has now been turned into a restaurant; so thatÓs the feel that we want to create Î something that feels like itÓs been there forever. And we are not sure if weÓre going to accomplish it, but thatÓs our starting goal in planning. We want to do fresh seafood, as we describe it, local seafood for the tourists and Alaskan seafood for the locals. Trying to make it really comfortable for the Canoe Club and for the fishermen that are in the Kawaihae area to be part of this, so we know we need to keep prices down to attract that crowd. And at the same time we want to have really some high-quality specials and the like. So we are really trying to make this a high-quality but comfortable, local-tourist mix. And aga and the fishermen are comfortable coming in here and, you know, really what we are trying to do here. Just a couple of things in terms of our requirements with the State. Our State lease, if we sign it, requires us to spend $3,000,000, and we donÓt foresee a problem, amount. So it is something that we are anxious to move ahead on and, you know -. Really in a sense itÓs a good time in this economy; in a sense itÓs a scary time because we are not sure where the market is. Our projections are in the range of about 75 employees both full and part time. So we really see this as an opportunity to intercept some of the employees within the homestead community; weÓve been meeting with them as well as North Kohala and the like, so Î creating an opportunity where we can actually intercept people having to drive further south for work. That really is the overview. I know that thereÓs some issues that have come up regarding access and IÓd like to reserve commenting on that until weÓve heard those comments because some of that, we have, I have not seen some of the comments coming in ye With that, we have reviewed the recommendation, the background a conditions of approval, and have no objections to any of them at this point. 5 EXHIBIT A