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the option of you can do your presentation next time or you can do your presentation today and then <br /> we ask you questions next time. <br /> FEMALE INAUDIENCE: I can do now and[indecipherable] <br /> LIN: Okay. All right, so, I will take public testimony at, oh sorry, there is one <br /> recusal, Commissioner Cross. If you could please state your recusal for this case. <br /> CROSS: I need to recuse myself from this because I have provided information to Ola, <br /> Brett and Na`ehalani regarding their application. Prior to that I was involved with Olson Trust and I <br /> performed the SMA Minors 13-000261 and then prior to that I did the SMA Major 367 back in <br /> 1996. <br /> LIN: Thank you Commissioner Cross. If you could step out of the hearing <br /> chambers for now and we will call you back in for agenda Item 93. Thank you. <br /> Commissioner Cross left the Council Chambers at 10:51 a.m. <br /> LIN: Janice are there any testifiers via Zoom for agenda Item 92. <br /> HATA: Yes, we have 2 people registered to testify for agenda Item 42. We have <br /> James Dahlberg and Chris Whidden. <br /> LIN: Okay, let me take Mr. Dahlberg first. So, Mr. Dahlberg, if you could please <br /> raise your right hand. Actually, let me swear both of you in at the same time. If you'll please raise <br /> your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Windward <br /> Planning Commission? Okay. Mr. Dahlberg if you could please unmute and then state your name, <br /> the area you reside in and you have 3 minutes. <br /> DAHLBERG: Aloha. My name is Jim Dahlberg, I reside in Kailua-Kona. I was born and <br /> raised in Keaukaha and I'm supporting this application because I feel that Hilo could use another <br /> venue, another attraction for not only our local people but also for the tourists. Also, I support the <br /> application because of what Ola has done for our community here in Kona. They've bought produce <br /> that prior to them purchasing it then using it in their seltzers was going to waste. So, over the past <br /> several years over a million dollars has been contributed to the farming community for the produce <br /> that use to be not used and is now used in their products. <br /> I've also observed that it's a young vibrant group of entrepreneurs that have really built up two very <br /> established restaurants, the flagship in Kona and then about a year ago the restaurant in Hilo. And <br /> now to take a property that Doc Buyers renovated when he was the President of Brewer and then the <br /> Olson Trust continued to preserve this historic site. Now to take this site and take it to a higher-level <br /> venue as I mentioned earlier, I think would be great for the continuing expansion of the economic <br /> tax base and lastly the infrastructure is in place there. Lots of times infrastructure lags but in this <br /> case the acceleration lanes and just the infrastructure for that site can accommodate the amount of <br /> visitors that will be visiting this new venue. So, I thank you Commissioners for allowing me to <br /> testify. Aloha. <br /> 2 <br /> EXHIBIT C <br />