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RECONVENEDThe meeting reconvened at 10:56 a.m. SPRINGER:Were reconvening the meeting of the Hawaii County Planning Commission. We are in discussions on Agenda Item 1. We just invited members of the public to testify before us. If we can start with Ms. Cabral? If you can give us your name and your address, followed by Ms. Goldman and Ms. Black. CABRAL:My name isNancy Cabral and my address is 2 Kamehameha Avenue, Hilo, Hawaii. SPRINGER:Thank you. Ms.Goldman? GOLDMAN:Im Iva Goldman and my address is 1396 Kinoole, Hilo. SPRINGER:Thank you. Ms. Black? BLACK:And Im Robin. My address is 43 East Lanikaula Street, Hilo. SPRINGER:Thank you. Youve all been sworn in and if we can begin with your testimony please, Ms. Black. BLACK:Well, first of all, I really want to say thank you very much for comingbecauseitwaswonderfulforusthatyouguysmadetheefforttocomeandtakea look, and were very grateful, and that was part of what we wanted, wasto have people actually look at the issues and make an informed choice. So, thank you again. Id like to start with some things that Yen had said with respect to the flood study, and I realize the difficulties in trying to project something thats unpredictable or predictable as the case may be with water. I realize that how you determine a 100-year flood is a statistical thing, but we live there. So when they say that the chances of something like this are kind of minimal or the percentage, that, thats all very well and good. But at the end of the day, Im the person whos sitting at home with an umbrella wondering where the heck its all going to go. So, to that end, I just want to point several things out. Number one, and let me show you on the map if thats okay. SPRINGER:And could you please wait for the microphone to be given to you when you get to the map? BLACK:Okay. Now, let me find myself. I think Ill use this one since it has the houses. This is the subject property, and the neighbors that are represented by our presence today are these that are clustered in the back. And, in particular, the site in question that disturbs us the most, which had the most damage is right here at 87-E. When we had that flood, the water did come partly from Lanikaula Street and partly from Kilauea. And I described this to you guys a little bit last time what was happening which 14