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final argument presentation, or shall we go right ahead into our decision making once I ask any <br />further procedural questions of the applicant? Does anyone wish to have an oral presentation, <br />or -? Commissioner Siracusa? <br />SIRACUSA: Yeah. If the intervenors were here, then I would say that I would <br />like to hear both parties address any issues that were raised by the people who testified – the <br />members of the public who testified. But since they are not here, and I think we should try to <br />keep a level playing field. So I’d rather just, you know, proceed. <br />GRAHAM: Any other comments from the Commissioners? Commissioner <br />Woodward? <br />WOODWARD: I don’t necessarily need a review, but I would like to ask a <br />question, if that’s appropriate. <br />GRAHAM: You ask a question of? <br />WOODWARD: Of the applicant. <br />GRAHAM: Referring to the specifics of the application? <br />WOODWARD: Right. <br />GRAHAM: All right. Well, I think what we should do then is we should take a <br />few remarks from the applicant, and I think he understands the situation. And then we can get <br />any questions from the Commissioners. Is that all right? <br />COMMISSIONERS: Yes. <br />GRAHAM: Okay. Mr. Yamamoto, then if – I think you can understand our <br />situation here – if it’s all right with you and you would like to make a few concluding remarks <br />about the application and your client, and then we can take questions from the Commissioners. <br />But I don’t think anything other than brevity is really necessary at this point. <br />YAMAMOTO: It wasn’t my intent to give you a dissertation about the project or <br />its merits. I did want to respond to Mrs. Withington’s comments this morning about the hearings <br />officer not considering the arguments raised by Kako`o. But if you look at the record, the record <br />clearly shows that their arguments were raised; they presented evidence at the contested case <br />hearing, and it was discussed with regard to the proper use of the Special Permit, the impacts. <br />However, the hearings officer concluded that those positions were not worthy of response or <br />inclusion within her proposed Findings and Recommendation to the Commission. So these <br />things were discussed, and were raised during the contested case hearing. So I didn’t want to <br />have that impression left that something wasn’t covered during the contested case hearing. It <br />basically was a whole-day proceeding, and it was covered. But other than that, we’d ask the <br />Commission to go forward, take the vote, and under the Rules either adopt, modify or reverse the <br />recommendation of the hearings officer. <br />EXHIBIT B <br />11 <br /> <br />