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MARSOUN: Thank you. GRAHAM: I appreciate that. Do we have any questions for the testifier from the Commissioners? All right, thank you very much. You may go back. Our next three public testifiers are Jesse Toubman, Jovani Irizarry-Diaz and Nani Svendsen. Would you folks come forward, and I’ll swear you in? Would you raise your right hands, please, and do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter before the Planning Commission here today? TESTIFIERS: I do. GRAHAM: Thank you. I’ll start with my right. Jesse, you could give your name and address first, please, and just go right ahead and make the comments you’d like to make. TOUBMAN: Okay. My name is Jesse Toubman, and my address is P. O. Box 1556, Kapaau, Hawaii. I being a youth know the importance of having a well-rounded life style and education, and I feel that some of the kids in Kohala aren’t getting that because they may have grown up around parents who haven’t had that themselves. Some kids don’t have good things to do with their time. After school they walk around; they don’t do anything. And I feel if there was a camp, they could learn how to communicate with children, how to be with the things that, skills to help them in their life, and so that they could prosper and be successful. And I feel that this camp is a very good way of doing that. I’ve seen other camps like this and I’ve seen what they can do. And I strongly believe that this camp can help children in Kohala. GRAHAM: Thank you for your comments. Do we have any questions from the Commissioners? No, we don’t. So Jovani, start with your name and address, please, and then make your comments. IRIZARRY-DIAZ: Okay. Hello. My name is Jovani Irizarry, and I’m with Mokuaikaua’s youth group. I’ve been to a few camps just like this one that is coming out, and with the youth I really get to bond, and you learn respect and different skills like responsibility while you are at them. And also when you are at camps like this, you learn like survival stuff. When you go to camps that are similar to this, when you are with or around all the other people, you learn to become more responsible, and you get to like cherish the time. And I have friends at school that they smoke, they do drugs and they do a whole bunch of other things. And I bet that it’s because their parents are neglecting or they aren’t that caring for their children. If they made more camps like this, then they probably would have quality time with their parents, and they wouldn’t be so angry at the world and stuff, so -. GRAHAM: Thank you for your comments. Do we have any Commissioners with questions? All right, thank you. Ms. Svendsen, please; your name and address first. SVENDSEN: Can we try with me not speaking on this thing, if I can. I have to? GRAHAM: We need that because it’s recorded so we can have written minutes, okay? EXHIBIT B 8