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WHITE: Yes, there is. <br />HOUSEL: There is. <br />WHITE: Yes. There is water access there, very good water access for the public. <br />HOUSEL: And itÓs walkable, I mean -. <br />WHITE: Yes. <br />HOUSEL: Someone could -. <br />REINEMAN: I can speak to that. <br />HOUSEL: Sure. <br />REINEMAN: Yes, there is a small public park right here with parking, and I donÓt, there is not, <br />there is not facilities or improvements but lots of people park and enter the water right here with <br />their families, or else walk along the rocks to the points here to fish and hunt for urchins and find <br />an Òopihi, and -. <br />HOUSEL: Thank you. <br />MILLS: Aloha. <br />GIFFIN: Aloha. <br />MILLS: My name is Joy Keahipuakahikawe (phonetic) Mills. I am originally from OÒahu. I <br />worked Ocean Safety, City and County on OÒahu for eight years. I am a second generation <br />lifeguard. I transferred to Kona a year ago under the Fire, County, and I just love it here. The <br />oceanscape is healthy and thriving unlike where I had worked befk, Hanauma Bay, is <br />just all gone, and a lot of it through the west side Makaha, itÓs pretty much gone through <br />development. The impact that buildings have on the seascape has really taken its toll. And when <br />I moved here, my mom, Nalee Papahiokakui (phonetic), they had their hui here, and then we had <br />gone to Keolanahihi and did our hookupo, kuhokupa (phonetic) the <br />would surf. And I actually saw Heidi surfing that day, and my mom said, ÐOh, terrific, that <br />wahine.Ñ Because Keolanahihi is originally a womenÓs heiau, or wahineÓs heiau, and that is <br />where, for our culture, you know, itÓs such a special place. And I applaud the Hawaiians who <br />have taken on as their kuleana to go and keep that community there alive and keep the culture <br />there alive. And we did our hookupa (phonetic) there. My mom said that that area is my <br />kuleana now. So I proudly say that I go there when I can, a lot of times before work, to go and <br />practice my heritage of surfing the point. I do and I fish at the point. I actually found this ring at <br />the point one day surfing. So to me, that was full circle, you know, that is our kuleana. And <br />when Heidi had told me that this development is coming in, it wa <br />once again I have come from OÒahu and I have seen development. And is this something that we <br />really want to take away from our children and build another house so someone else from <br />8 <br />EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />