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

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outfit, my colleagues are all here. This is 60% of my whole team here. We are small, a small operation amongst scientists. We wrote a proposal to our funding agency to ask for money. Usually, we have to be very optimistic and lower our budget. So, as you can see, yes, yes, it's very poor. So, what we can offer is our more educational outreaching. So, I think for example we can go to Ka`u community, go to the high school, or go to the school maybe not weekly but monthly. So can go there to promote science, to talk about astronomy. If students are interested, we can take in interns. We are taking akamai students every year. We have several Hilo High School, even Waiakea High School and there's also the U.H. Hilo students they all come to work for our small team. After that they go to study on the mainland and even internationally. So, what we can offer is that we can work on the public outreaching to the kids. We can show them our instruments. If they're doing really well, we can even send them to our international partner. As an internship, as an opportunity and those part we can offer. Thus, our service, our experience and we are willing to offer that as our feedback to the appreciation to the community. You have my word that we can do it. We'd like to do it. LIN: Thank you Dr. Chen. I think that's the piece that this whole case was missing was your commitment. We don't, I don't think that scientific research is wrong but, it just seemed like you're putting satellite dishes on a property and just walking away. The information just comes to you, and you do nothing else but just sit at your computers listening to the radio waves that come in. What I was looking for was exactly what you just said is what are you going to do for the Big Island community, the Ka`u community and how you can help support that community in terms of here's what we have to bring you. I think that's the piece that I was looking for. So, with your statement on record, I hope that you do commit to that and with that I change my vote to an aye. CHEN: Thank you. FEMALE SPEAKING FROM THE AUDIENCE: [indecipherable] LIN: I'm sorry ma'am, you had your testimony in the beginning. I'm sorry, the rules are as stated — FEMALE SPEAKING FROM THE AUDIENCE: [indecipherable] LIN: I'm sorry, I cannot take any further testimony outside of the testimony period. So, staff roll call vote. ANDREWS: Yes, I believe we're going to redo the original motion, or do we have a new motion? LIN: Commissioners, would you be opposed to adding a condition for purposes of getting an update report in some of the community engagement that this organization is doing? PERRIN: No, that would be awesome. That would be awesome. 16 EXHIBIT B