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WATANABE: Okay. Mr. Woodward? WOODWARD: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Firstly I’d like to thank the Steering Committee and the community in general for the tremendous amount of work they’ve done. I know this has been a big pain in the whatever, but you got it done. And now there may be a little tweaking around the edges. With regard to the question of the Steering Committee, the Steering Committee has to be appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Council, so it’s not an arbitrary decision. The other point I’d like to make is Kau is bigger than Puna. You talk about how big Puna is, Kau is bigger. But I kind of like being there in Puna because you actually have water that falls from the sky and you have real dirt; and we have to truck both in. WATANABE: Go ahead, Ms. Bowman. BOWMAN: Can I just ask for a point of clarification, just so I’m sure. When the Steering Committee, the same process was used for all the CDPs in Kona and North Kohala, having a panel of local people review and then going to the Mayor? Just to clarify -. YUEN: Yes. BOWMAN: Thank you. WOODWARD: Mr. Chairman? WATANABE: Yes. WOODWARD: Actually because we are getting ready soon to do our Kau Community Development Plan I’ve researched the County Statutes, and the only requirement is at the point when the Steering Committee is appointed. The process that precedes that is not mandated by law, and so it can be varied. What generally happens is you start out with a large group of small meetings, which they did 130 plus, and then you go try whittle over those several thousand ideas down by a small group of large meetings, and then it goes to the Steering Committee who further whittles it down, and then they eventually put out the final product. But as far as the actual process there’s nothing in the County Code up until the appointment of the steering committee that tells you how you have to do it. WATANABE: Do we have any other questions for the presenters at this time? Then we’d like to thank you for your time, the expertise; and I’d like to, you may be seated then. Now then we’ll start entertaining public testimony.As a reminder if you wish to testify you do need to sign up, I believe there are sheets out there, and present it to the staff. I’m going to proceed in the order that I received these. So, you know, if you signed up first you’ll have an opportunity to speak first. So let me see, we have four microphones, five microphones. So maybe I can call five people up at a time. Before I 9