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DARROW: She was properly noticed. We have made attempts to call her this morning, and we’ve left messages, but have not been able to contact her personally. GRAHAM: Okay. And for Kako`o, I know we had Toni Withington speak a minute ago. Is Toni still here, or is there any other representative for Kako`o who could come forward? In order to be complete, we’d like to have everybody that’s been a party to this forward, so maybe I’ll just take a five-minute recess, and will see if we can find anybody who’s missing. Thank you. RECESSED The Chair called a short recess at 11:07 a.m. RECONVENED The meeting reconvened at 11:20 a.m. GRAHAM: Okay, I’d like to call the meeting back to order on the application for a Special Permit by Alliance Redwoods Conference Grounds, Inc. Also, I’d like to just let people know here that we are planning to break for lunch at 12:15, so I’ll just let you know our schedule, we’ll probably be gone until 1:30. So back on track with what we are tying to accomplish right now, we have the Special Permit before us. We had a contested case hearing. We got a set of proposed Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Recommendations from the hearings officer. We also have material from our two intervenors – from Jean Sunderland and from the Kako`o group. We did not have any formally presented exceptions by any of the parties to the Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Recommendations of the hearings officer. We had Toni Withington speaking earlier today in the public testimony part, and she let us know at that time that she was representing Kako`o, but apparently chose to speak in the public hearing as opposed to at this point when we bring the parties together. We have not heard from Jean Sunderland, who was also an intervenor, at all today; and I did verify with the Planning Department that all the parties were properly noticed, and I believe the date of the notice went out was April 24. So, Commissioners, my sense is we’ll just proceed forward at this point. Is that okay with everyone? COMMISSIONERS: Okay. GRAHAM: Okay. So we have our applicant’s representative here before us today. Would you folks raise your hands, so I can swear you in? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter before the Hawaii County Planning Commission today? APPLICANTS: I do. GRAHAM: Thank you. So I -. YAMAMOTO: For the record, my name is Jerel Yamamoto. I’m the attorney for the applicant. Along with me is James Blake, the Executive Director. GRAHAM: All right. Thank you. So at this point usually it would be up to the Commission as to whether we want to have any sort of concluding arguments on behalf of the parties, and our only party at this point is the applicant. Does the Commission wish to have any EXHIBIT B 10