2023-04-06 Windward Exh B (Item#1 ASIAA PL-SPP-2022-000025)

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PIPAN: Yes. PERRIN: So, I think if you folks could share a little as to how it may affect, or if there is any affect and maybe look in the light as what can you give back to the community. We love science. It does amazing things like you said. It's the forefront of what's yet to come. But what can science give back to the community? Just a question. PIPAN: Thank you for your question. As to first, these signals at their source are very energetic but by the time they reach the earth, they are extremely faint and again this site is solely passive. It's not emitting any radio radiation itself, it's simply receiving these very, very faint signals and it has to be located in this very radio quiet area so that there's not extraneous sources. There's no extra noise that they have to filter out or sift through or get rid of to actually find that very faint source of the radio bursts. So, there's no emission from the site, there's no impact to floral, fauna, or to folks' health. If you're living closer to like a cell phone tower or just living with your cell phone on you all time that's a greater source of radio waves. And in terms of giving back to the community, education right. Inspiring our youth by saying there are opportunities here on the Big Island for making cutting edge contributions to the knowledge of science and having students and community members engage in that process is crucial. So, I think that's how it's giving back, its saying Hawaii is a very special place for research, for furthering our knowledge. PERRIN: That's amazing. Maybe if you folks could work it into what you have going on and make it where you can maybe invite the kids up once a month and share and or even putting together a newsletter that feeds the community letting them know what you're doing. Or even just to maybe go adopt a highway,just so that they can see you and know, "hey, yes, we're taking up space but we're also going do our best to be good stewards of this land. So, what's yet to come is still going to be [indecipherable] enjoy it to its utmost potential. Okay. PIPAN: Agree, agree, thank you. PERRIN: Thank you. LIN: Thank you Commissioner Perrin. Any other questions Commissioners? I have a question, two questions. One would be, what kind of outreach have you done so far? In terms of your previous application that was denied as well as your current outreach speaking to the community in Ka`u, the farmers, the neighbors. So, if you could just expand on that. PIPAN: Yeah, thank you for your question. Aside from the basic requirements of notifying surrounding property owners and posting a sign for the project. We have engaged interested community members in on-line talk story sessions. Last year we did that on the previous site. We've gone to the site and held just kind of informal talk story sessions with community members, Dr. Chen was involved in that as well. We went out and visited the site with Mr. Coffman, that nearest neighboring property owner to look at the sites for he was proposing to build in the future to make sure that were not impacting his views from his property which is the nearest neighboring property. We adjusted the site plan based on that back and forth with Mr. Coffman to be more toward to the north end of the property and more square in shape and have the screening 10 EXHIBIT B