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version of two years, two plus years of work and some numbers of hundreds of thousands of dollars that the County paid for us to do this plan. And theyÓv they handed it off to you like youÓre supposed to understand it. And I think thatÓs, from my side of the fence, demeaning at its best, given the amount of work th the hundreds of hours that the different committees, aside from up with this document, and then having it shoveled off and shuffled through in a matter of a few minutes without any understanding of why we did what we did. Let me just give you a for instance here, cause itÓs open to tha relocation of the transfer stations, now why would that come up? Well, letÓs see. The transfer station in Phoa, the access to that transfer station in Phoa for the entire South and East District of Puna is through the Phoa School complex. They drag, we drag our garbage through the school complex; and thatÓs been there since day one. The school was built in 1908; and they moved the transfer station once a little further back. I was up there two weeks ago for the Senio Projects Day as a volunteer and itÓs disgusting. Okay, itÓs going to cost some money to move it. What choices? You want to move the school or the transfer station? Moving the KeaÒau station, it is on Highway 130. Momentarily that is going to be at the transfer station nearly six lanes wide by the time you figure the shoulder, the turning lane, the two turning pockets left and right, two lanes of travel, a turning pocket and two more lanes of travel. If you pull out of there going Pahoa bound, youÓre going to have to make it across three lanes of traffic without getting hit. And theyÓre coming at you at 55 miles an hour. Does that sound like a good scenario to anybody sitting here? ItÓs already, in the last ten years, thereÓs already been 8 people killed there. Is that enough? Do we have enough blood on the road? Oh, no, itÓs going to cost a couple of bucks to move it. And IÓm not getting any more satisfaction on the State HighwayÓs side either. Village and town centers, we didnÓt come up with this, folks. The County hired a planner, somebody with extensive, extensive experience in planning, who came down here and advised us how best we could go about solving our problems of getting these village and town centers built. We didnÓt come in making any demands. We said how do we fix this, how is the rest of the world dealing with this? This is what we were told, this is the one of the tools that you should have out there to deal with the problem. Well, I mean, if the guy didnÓt know what he was doing the County shouldnÓt have hired him. So thatÓs the conundrum, either the man knows what heÓs doing or he doesnÓt know what heÓs doing. ItÓs okay with one planning director, itÓs not okay with the next planning director. ItÓs okay with one Council, itÓs not okay with another. I think you deserve, and I know my community deserves you to reject this. Send them a little letter that says bifurcate this, send this back in bit size pieces so we can understand what weÓre doing and why the community made the choices it chose to doing these things, and then weÓll look at it. And IÓm not objecting to having someone do a second look, or third look, whatever it takes to get it right. The Council didnÓt look at this. They simply know that this document tak some power away from them; and this new enervation of the Council doesnÓt like that. 8 EXHIBIT B