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OLSON: Yeah, that -. I mean we haven’t met over this, obviously. But, I mean, if you’re asking me personally what I think, these are the appropriate people to deal with these issues. DOMINGO: I’m glad you feel that way; and I think it’s due time that they’re given the recognition. Every year in every instance I can recall, and every time that we look around we witness these people striving and trying hard to obtain the recognition and the rights that they desire. They want it to be heard; and you know, to that effect even in our schools today there are programs which teach, and hopefully the kids would emulate, what is Hawaiian. And I’ve witnessed that this past week at the Honoka‘a School at the Ho‘olaulea. You know, the school has in itself hired a young man to teach every grade school student some Hawaiian, whether it be performance, or by word and by action; and they’ve done that. And when we discussed, I was at the meeting when we discussed the consolidation and the proposed study to consider closing schools, this young man came forward and just told us how important it is that we consider these things. And what he was talking about was, you know, the ability for young children to learn of these things and that they’re an umbilical chord that goes out to the community and strengthens the community, and even at the maturity. And that’s why I think -. WATANABE: Mr. Domingo. DOMINGO: That should be considered by this plan. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I know. But one more comment, and I think that should be emphasized also in the General Plan in the future when it is considered for amendment. BROWN: I agree. I’d just like to add that it has been our contention from the beginning of this that communities are going to need to take a very active role in implementing all of the CDPs in the County of Hawai'i, and in Puna probably more so than all of the others because the Puna community has had to be self reliant for so many years now. And to have the Kanaka Council step forward and be willing to accept responsibility for this action in the Puna CDP I find to be an easy win that we can just about chalk up, you know, on the action table.And as one who anticipates working as the Planning Department’s liaison to the community in implementing this plan in the years to come, I look forward to working with them. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. I’d like to remind the Commissioners that any position statements are what we go after during deliberations, yeah. And, you know, at our first meeting, I think most of you were there, we spent four hours taking testimony, only testimony, not deliberating at all. And so, you know, I’m hoping that we can make this a little more concise than that, because we do want to afford some time for position statements when we do finally deliberate, yeah. So if we can keep that in mind, I think that would be real good. It looks like you have a question, Ms. Bowman? BOWMAN: Yes, I do. Your regional centers, I’m just curious and maybe this was answered before and I apologize for it -. So you have this floating district and all EXHIBIT B 15