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WATANABE: Thank you. Okay, so it seems like we are -. HOUSEL: Mr. Chairman? WATANABE: Yes. HOUSEL: I had a question of either Mr. Lim or the project director. In reading the EIS and your plan, youÓre planning for 622 parking spaces, and t minimum. Are those all existing now, or are you adding more par MOOERS: We are adding more. The proposal is to remove the tennis courts and put in additional parking. I think, when we talk about the parking, I think Jak will take the lead here, but one of the things that I can point out is just this past weekend with the fishing tournament and car show the parking lot was full. I mean we were looking for every stall we had. So itÓs not like we are going to create 179 stalls that are not going to be used. But the decision to eliminat the tennis courts and put in parking is because we need the parking. HOUSEL: Okay, so you -. MOOERS: So those will be added, yes. HOUSEL: You do need that much parking then, huh? MOOERS: ThatÓs why they are removing the courts, yes. HOUSEL: Okay. MOOERS: ThereÓs no point creating them, if we didnÓt need it. HOUSEL: Okay. Well, I share the DirectorÓs concern that if the parking for public access to the beach is external, that itÓs going to be a fight trying to get a parking space there. There has to be some control over who can park there. Is there solution for that? MOOERS: Well, yeah, we just received the recommendation this last week, and frankly we were a little surprised, because I think the ownership of the hotel, and Jak will probably respond to that, was a little surprised that after being here for, you know, for 35 years that -. We donÓt dominate, we donÓt own all the way up to the beach; so the access to the beach is not affected by this. So their belief was what we were doing renovate the hotel; and now we are being asked to give up 30 of our stalls that had always been controlled stalls. And so operationally we are trying to figure out, okay, how do we do that? And we are looking at, you know, passes and -. And operationally, presently there is a guard there, or a ticket taker, and we are trying to remove that person to reduce cost and go to a card gate where you pull a ticket on the way in and on the way out pay with, you know, credit card, which are being done in a number of hotels on the coast. So now, weÓre saying, okay, weÓve got to give away 30 freebees or 20 or 10 or whatever the number is, weÓre trying to figure out, okay, how do we do that? And one of the things operationally we looked at, we said, well, maybe if EXHIBIT C 19