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MORALES:My name is Ku`uipo Kalahiki Morales, and I live at 77-6489 Ali`i <br />Drive. <br />GIFFIN:Could you speak a little louder? <br />MORALES:Pardon me? <br />GIFFIN:Speak a little louder. <br />MORALES:My name is Ku`uipo Kalahiki Morales. I do live at 77-6489 Ali`i <br />Drive, Kailua-Kona. <br />GIFFIN:Please begin your testimony. <br />MORALES:I can't stay at this hearing today, but I just want to voice my <br />concern about Keolonhihi. And if, you know, I don't know how many of you have gone <br />out to this site and checked over the site. This is a wonderful educational center that must <br />be used not only for us here at the present but for our future generations; and it's a <br />wonderful, wonderful tool that we can use for the State of Hawai`i to educate people on <br />our culture and our history here on this Island, one of the many, many places. And it is <br />coming, being very disrespectful to change this place and to put a building on it. Please. <br />I mean for the education of our children, have some respect of this historic site. And if <br />you haven't gone there, you need to go there and feel this place and see what is out there, <br />because it is fantastic and magnificent, and such a beautiful part of this culture and the <br />history of our land. Mahalo. <br />GIFFIN:Mahalo. Hang on one minute, please, Ku`uipo. Hearings Officer, <br />Commissioner Springer, questions? <br />SPRINGER:I'm wondering, do you understand that the subject property for this <br />application is already fully developed? <br />MORALES:No, I don't. <br />SPRINGER:There are several units on the property, and it's adjacent to that part <br />of Kaluaokalani known as the Pakiha. I'm wondering how you envision this developed <br />property to fit into the educational vision that you described to us. <br />MORALES:Well, whatever is left is what I'm really getting at, because I do <br />understand. I've lived there for almost 30 years on Ali`i Drive, and I know the area, and <br />I've seen the development; and whatever is left should be respectfully left alone. That's <br />my concern. <br />GIFFIN:Thank you. Mr. Togashi? <br />TOGASHI:No questions. <br />11 <br /> <br />