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KAHAWAIOLAA:Mr. Chairman, may I respond just to one thing that Mr. Torigoe said, please. WATANABE:Sure, sure. KAHAWAIOLAA:Excuse me, yes. I understand a Memorandum of Agreement was made. I just need the general public and I need this Commission to understand the MOA is not set in concrete. It can be at the behest of either party cancelled with a 180-day notice. The point Im trying to make is the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act is set in concrete. Thats concrete. You need to change it, you need to amend it, which I think they did. They circumvented it by doing an MOU or an MOA. But if you need to change anything, I think one of Hawaiis greatest justices, Justice Richardson, said this, If you want to change and amend the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, seek the consent of Congress. Thats where it lies. So I thank you very much.MOAsdoesntmeananythingtonativeHawaiians.ItalleviatestheCountymaybefrom law suits and stuff like that; but, trust me, that is not how you deal with Hawaiian Home Lands. So I thank you very much for that explanation, Mr. Torigoe; and thank you, Mr. Chairman, for allowing me to give testimony. But Im for a ban and against any kind of superstores here in Hawaii, especially on Hawaiian Homes. Thank you. WATANABE:Okay, thank you. Scarlett, right? BILL:Hello, Ive been in Hawaii -. WATANABE:Would you state your name and address, please. BILL:Thank you. My name is Scarlett OHara Bill. Ive lived in Hawaii since 1972. I came by way of Japan. I was an entertainer. My husband and I moved here and had a son at Kapiolani Hospital; and we adopted a daughter who arrived from Korea. This is a beautiful, beautiful island with a wonderful blending of cultures and peoples. And weve loved living in Kona for 27 years. In the last year our revenue has dropped 60 percent because of the choking traffic that has happened over the last 5 years with all of the development on Alii Drive trying to take care of the sewage system and build communication lines on land that is wet underneath it all the way to Kuakini Highway. It should be a national park, all that area. There was an argument last week about the heiau right in front of the King Kamehameha, that area thats all sacred to the Hawaiian people; and no one ever talked about well, bring back the beach, bring back the beach. They instead, they built a big cement pier. Were not sending out cattle any more. But it was there for a revenue, for revenue; and the big bucks theyre coming in with a big something that were going to see that has no air flow, really. If you spent a day with all the zombies, all of our wonderful friends working graveyard shifts in the Wal-Mart and the other big buildings, you would just know what this is doing to the wonderful aloha, Aloha awinala, Aloha ka kahiaka, you know, where is that happening. Where is that happening any longer, the iaos that stop in our trees going up the mountain to Hualalai? I live on the corner of Anini and Hinalani so Im 73 Anini Street. Weve been there 19 years and we see all the traffic that comes up from Costco. So Im the one that puts the sign on the wall 6 EXHIBIT B