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is fair or not, I donÓt know. We did not create a moment where a 150-page amendment of an 89- page document, you know, was to be dealt with in one big basket and bundle. We did not create that moment. Now I will agree with Jon Olson. And I would suggest that the Planning Commission in its due diligence really should take a look at this and send this Bill 194 with a negative recommendation to the Council, and say that if you want to amend this plan in its parts and pieces, you should separate these issues -- be they waste water in this area, be they village center steering committees in that area, be it floating zones like changes of language, be it editing of commas and quotes and non-substantive things -- in a manner in which the public can give you full and comprehensive input, and in which you yourselves as Planning Commissioners can understand these issues one by one. Cause as it stands right now I believe you are asked to look at this recommendation on this item but you really have one basket bill. Bill 194 is one bill. ItÓs not 83 bills, itÓs not 12 bills, itÓs not 20 bills. ItÓs one bill. And you either approve it, Council will. Council is not going to sit there and, theyÓre going to, well, we have a motion to approve Bill 194. Now they can do all kinds of, they can try to amend the amendmen they want. But they have a motion to approve Bill 194, and itÓs parts and pieces. I mean thatÓs our view. Nobody has been able to show us any other facts that counter that. So I would ask the Commission to reject Bill 194 as an unwieldy of dealing with amending the Puna Community Development Plan. Friends of PunaÓs Future is in support of many of these amendments. They are in support of amendments within Bill 194, which we agree with. There are some that we donÓt. There are so community deserves full time and intent to look at and understand. The Action Committee has labored hard and long on their points. And they were, I think, Bill 194 being such a large bundle that they canÓt deal with it in the whole, they have to deal with it piece by piece. But as a legal fact at Council it is one bill. Thank you very much. WOODWARD: All right, thank you. Do we have any questions for Mr. Tucker? Okay, thank you, sir. TUCKER: Sure. WOODWARD: You may be seated. Commissioner Kern. KERN: I have more of a, I guess, legal question probably. Is it possible to ask for it to be bifurcated, or is it basically yes or no, we either support it or donÓt support it? Director? LEITHEAD TODD: You can do a number of things. You can send a re approve it as is, you can send a recommendation to not approve it, to have the Council vote it down, or you can send a recommendation to approve it with changes that, as long as theyÓre not substantive changes. You could also, if you agree with the recommendation letter submitted by me, you could vote to support the recommendations of the Planning Director in regards to Bill 194 and send that up to the County Council, or you could come up with your own separate recommendation as long as theyÓre not substantive. 13 EXHIBIT B