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And I just want to tell you that, No. 1, the maps were wrong in this. Right, John? We were told way back when, and we told -, it was our understand that John Whalen‘s contract ran out December 31, 2007; and he has had to put all this stuff together now. We have said over and over that the maps were wrong; we have given a lot of input online, in meetings. And yes, there are problems with this report, but overall it represents the manao of most of the people of Puna, no, not the large landowners. That was what the civil rights action said was wrong with the previous plans. The people that were working on this report, they went through all of the previous plans. They went through the Puna regional circulation plans. I’ve got papers here; this is a 1994 -, 2004 response. We had input from people through the years.We have all sorts of different organizations. Even in my own Nanawale Community Association minutes, I have found minutes where Tom Brown came out and told us in 2003 that we were going to get thus and so. He’s got -, we’ve got -. WATANABE: Ms. Stapleton. STAPLETON: Yes. WATANABE: If you can wrap up, please. STAPLETON: All right. What I want to say basically as to this plan, No. 1, the people said over and over and over they wanted the rural atmosphere retained. They were also concerned about public safety.And they also were concerned about the connectivity, which is what all these cul-de-sacs are. We have 41 subdivisions, and we have more than 500 square miles of nothing but 50-mile one-way roads. Think about it, okay? And Mr. Watanabe, I’m sorry, it’s been long. I just want to tell the lady from Foster Kern, her comments were not ignored. We listened to Mr. Walters. We gave great respect to him. But when we were tried to talk about Railroad Avenue, he kept talking about it like it was his property; and I finally had to ask, well, doesn’t Railroad Avenue go all the way to Kapoho, which it does. I mean, the thinking is like the serfs and the plantation manager. And those days are gone. We are now in st the 21 century. Mr. Whalen gave us ideas on how to fund such things as WiFi, on park and ride facilities and all of that in the Working Papers, but we could not include all of that in our report. So there is so much addendum that nobody has even asked us to look -, not even looked at -, not one person has asked to look at, who came to our meetings, not one; and yet I’ve gone to every meeting and offered it. And I would say we’ve got all this information right here. Thank you. WATANABE: Okay. Do we have any questions? No? SIRACUSA: No, but I do want to thank Frankie for coming in and answering a lot of the questions and addressing a lot of the concerns that have been raised by Members of this Commission and members of the public who came out to testify. Thanks, Frankie. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. I have two other testifiers signed up: Kale Gumapac and John Roberts. Would the two of you come up, please. Kale Gumapac and John Roberts. PUBLIC: John is not here. He had to leave. EXHIBIT C 19