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WATANABE: Oh, Sara had to leave. Okay. Let’s see. Would you all raise your <br />right hand, please. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Planning <br />Commission? <br />TESTIFIERS: I do. <br />WATANABE: Thank you. And I had a request that Palikapu be last, so why don’t <br />we start with Mr. Carlson. <br />CARLSON: My name is T. Carlson. <br />SIRACUSA: Use the mike, please. <br />CARLSON: My name is T. Carlson. I live in Wa‘awa‘a. I live at 14-3720 <br />Government Beach Road. And I’m here, to keep it very brief, I’m here to support <br />approval of this amendment to the Puna CDP which I also support. I would like to see it <br />passed as an ordinance rather than a resolution; and I would also like the Puna CDP to be <br />considered prior to the other CDPs. <br />WATANABE: Is that it? <br />CARLSON: Yes. <br />WATANABE: Okay. Do we have any questions? It doesn’t seem like it. Thank <br />you. <br />KAMAHELE: Aloha. My name is Noelani Kamahele. I live Opihikao, Puna. I <br />support the CDP with its amendments because we all need our resources, my kids need it. <br />That’s it. <br />WATANABE: Thank you. Yes. <br />DEDMAN: Palikapu Dedman from Ka‘u, Wailau. I have my coffee farm <br />there. I’m surprised that this wasn’t part of policy from the very beginning, looking out <br />for native rights. Our Planning Director knows all about native rights and how it should <br />have been part of policy, that you really could not do any planning without concerns of <br />the Hawaiians. You have Corporate Counsel, I didn’t see them give any input about how <br />policies and plans should be made. You folks sit around and address EIS that’s being <br />reviewed by the Planning Commission, so you do have a responsibility and you do have <br />an obligation to look at native people’s rights and our uses of traditional things. The <br />resources in Hawai‘i belongs to traditional practice. You deplete the resource, you stop <br />practice. How come it’s not policy? And it should always have been policy. I’m <br />disappointed that I have to come at this time after over 20 something years, some of you <br />folks know, that we were raising these issues way back then. And never was it part of <br />policy. Why is it that you pick State to take over certain things that you don’t want to <br />address and the County address certain things? <br /> EXHIBIT B <br />7 <br /> <br />