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I want to speak about the needs and our community. ThatÓs where IÓm really coming from. Our developers did not include a longhouse or a gathering place. We have to travel 18 miles round trip in order to hold meetings of any size for the community. And Ms. Dolena has offered up her property as a meeting and gathering place, which would be a wonderful resource center for our community. We have a lot of people that are not able to travel distances. We have, you know, disabled people and elderly people. So if we could have a gathering place, some place to hold meetings and come together as a community and network as a community, it would be a great blessing for us. And that would also be an opening for the adjoining communities as well. If itÓs a nonprofit organization Ms. Dolena has opened that possibility up to the adjoining communities as well. So itÓs a great need in our community, especially in these challenging times, resource centers where we can get together and talking about how we can communicate with one another, what our needs are, health issues. We do not have any volunteer fire departments yet down in our area. There are, you know, significant needs that need to be addressed. So IÓm just speaking from the community. We have had a lot of people that have signed this petition that are for what sheÓs proposing. There were 19 signatures. There are seven people alone that live on Ms. DolenaÓs Road, Ililani Road, that are for this. So just as a community member I want to also say that she has addressed the impact of the density with the people using the road to come and access her property, but that should not exclude the members of the community. We should all be able to drive on that road that live there and pay our road assessment, to access a gathering place within our own community. And thatÓs what IÓd like to say. WOODWARD: Thank you. Any questions for Ms. Jones? ISHIBASHI: May I ask one question? JONES: Yes. ISHIBASHI: Thank you for coming. I appreciate your time. You made mention you pay road fees, too. ThatÓs separate from what this gentleman -? JONES: We all -. ISHIBASHI: ThatÓs a separate -? JONES: We all pay road assessment dues. ThatÓs what our community asso is purely established for, is just road assessment. So house lots which are down by the tide pools is Unit No. 1. They have their own road assessments that are separate from the Farm Lots. And then Farm Lots gets to use our assessments within Farm Lots because our needs are so different. ISHIBASHI: Thank you. JONES: Thank you. WOODWARD: All right, thank you very much. Any further questions? Okay, thank you. You folks may all be seated. WeÓll call up then the last four, EXHIBIT B 17