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taking it up, or half of it, again in Kona. So seeing no, Fellow Commissioners, if there’s no objections for us breaking for lunch, I’d like to do that at this time, and come back probably at, let’s see, about 1:45. Yeah? Okay. RECESSED The Chair called a recess at 12:35 p.m. RECONVENED The meeting reconvened at 1:54 p.m. ALAMEDA: The Hawaii County Planning Commission now returns to order. Welcome back. We’re ready to talk a little bit about how we’re going to proceed with this Agenda Item Nos. 5 and 5a. So I would like to turn it over to Norman to give us some lead. Go ahead. HAYASHI: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just for the Commissioners’ information, just some minor problem that we may have is that we had put the County Council’s amendment on the superstores as well as the Planning Director’s proposed amendment at the next Kona meeting ndnd on June 22, and this was advertised in the papers on June 2. So there may be some problems if the Commission were to act on the County Council’s initiation seeing that we had advertised another hearing out in Kona, or an opportunity for the Kona people to discuss this particular request. But, you know, that’s something as far as we’re concerned we can, you know, have the newspapers cross that item out. That’s not a problem. But just maybe a slight technicality. ALAMEDA: Mr. Torigoe, do you see that as a slight technicality or a big technicality? TORIGOE: Well, once it has been published then you have the problem with like if there’s somebody in Kona who looks at the ad and says, okay, it’s coming to Kona, before the Commission votes on it they’re going to come back over to Kona and I’ll have a chance to testify on it. So in that sense, you know, you probably, since it has been advertised you probably don’t want to lull people -. You know, people who wanted to testify from Kona might have come today if they thought today was the last meeting on Item 5, is what I’m saying. ALAMEDA: Mr. Hayashi, you have anything to respond to what Mr. -? HAYASHI: No. I’ll leave it up to the Commission to decide. ALAMEDA: Okay, I’ll go with Commissioner Iwashita and then I’ll go with Commissioner Siracusa. Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA: Given that, you know, I’m always, I would like to think of myself as the great protector of the right to be able to, you know, come out and express your views before this body. So with that disclosure, if it’s appropriate I’ll move to, you know, continue further hearing on this matter till the next Kona meeting. ALAMEDA: Okay. Thank you, Commissioner Iwashita. Let’s hear from Commissioner Siracusa first. Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA: Well, I’ll cancel that. Well, I was hoping that, you know, like that we could just vote on one and get it out of the way. Because it’s not the last chance because it will EXHIBIT D 23