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GIFFIN: Any other questions of the applicant? Okay, hearing none <br />and Mr. Kaha. We have two people who have signed up to testify, <br />submitted written testimony. Kevin Balog and Mel Macy, please co <br />Old Home Week – there is Ivan, and now there is Kevin, my goodne <br />please raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the <br />Hawai‘i Leeward County Planning Commission? <br />TESTIFIERS: I do. <br />GIFFIN: Thank you. Starting with you, Kevin, will you please sta <br />BALOG: Kevin Balog, P. O. Box 368 Pa‘auilo, Hawai‘i 96776. And I <br />representing two companies: One is our mining company which is E <br />Gravel LLC and the other one is our landholding company which is <br />GIFFIN: Thank you. Why don’t you begin your testimony, Mr. Balog <br />BALOG: Thank you, Chairman Giffin and fellow Members of the Leew <br />Just a few things to clarify some of the representations that ar <br />lowering cost to the County, but I think as a whole we need to u <br />being asked of the Commission today. What’s being asked today is <br />allowed an entity to develop a contract with the County to run a <br />obligations when it entered into that contract; they knew they w <br />they knew what they had to do, they knew they needed to crush th <br />are asking you to amend the condition to allow them to sell it t <br />Honorable Ivan Torigoe said, to hopefully have a share in the pr <br />Either we pay through a tipping fee or through our property taxe <br />people, the County pays Waste Management, and they get paid to e <br />they get paid to cover – their costs are covered. We run an enti <br />you people sitting up there, one of the Commissioners, or someon <br />the phone, calls us up, no one is covering my cost. I don’t have <br />partners are a government entity who has a piece of property, th <br />says, “You know what, hey, we’re going to process this material <br />cost.” My costs don’t get diverted; in fact, no one is coming to <br />to help you out, Mr. Balog.” So it would be different, if the pr <br />we are opening it up for a bid, we aren’t asking for, or declari <br />an environmental assessment to do this, we’re going to be fair a <br />asking. They are asking you today to waive their conditions, so <br />are not allowing me or my company to do it. They are not allowin <br />sitting right next to me, to go into the site and possibly eithe <br />process it. Or even competition that isn’t here. What they are a <br />them to do it and allow them to make the profit, and then make a <br />already get for running a landfill. All my tax dollars, all of y <br />here, paid for all the improvements you see, connecting to the l <br />remember it’s our money. So when they tell you, “Oh, we knew we <br />we want to come into compliance,” I agree with all of that. But <br />and you allow people to come in and be part of the process and b <br />when you are excluding everyone and you are saying, “No, we are <br />that runs the landfill,” that wasn’t their purpose when they ope <br /> <br />