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DOMINGO:Thank you for coming. You said that you have a business? <br />BILL:Yes, sir, 27 years. We are probably one of the very few jewelers onthe <br />island who repair and remake everything you have in a broken smoking box. If youre not <br />smoking any more, you have broken chains, you have broken -. My husband and those who <br />work with him can repair everything and recycle them. <br />DOMINGO:So what youre saying is that youre being impacted by those largestores <br />that have been built? <br />BILL:Yes, were being impacted by people who give you shoddy merchandize <br />thats going to break. <br />DOMINGO:Orisitbecauseofthestoresbeingthereandthetrafficthathasbeen <br />generated that in essence then prevents people from coming to your -. <br />BILL:Prevents, yes, sir. Theres no parking -. <br />DOMINGO:So theres direct and indirect effect on your business? <br />BILL:Thats right, thats right. Its a very sad condition for all of them. I look <br />at them and they all look sad, all of these families weve known for years. Theyre working <br />under great stress because they can get something maybe not the quality of what they would get <br />from these small operations. They just dont get the quality, nor do they get the service. <br />DOMINGO:Yeah, okay. Excuse me. <br />BILL:Yes, sir. <br />DOMINGO:Now you had mentioned that you had other friends who have been here. <br />Are they in business also? <br />BILL:Yes, sir. Theyre all working as hard as they can. <br />DOMINGO:And they have the same sentiments as you? <br />BILL:Yes. We work seven days a week. Yes, sir, same sentiment. I have a lot <br />of signatures. Im sure youve received at least 100 from those friends, because we did have a <br />meeting at the Big Island Grill and, I mean, they were totally, all those business friends are real, <br />theyre real benefactors like you. They have children and grandchildren and theyve worked <br />hard to build a town thats built upon the history and the aloha. <br />DOMINGO:So it would be proper to interpret your presentation to mean that there <br />should be a ban for those -? <br />BILL:I think this should be banned; and it could be moved to an area that is <br />certainly not going to be choked with just standing in traffic trying to get out of town to go home <br />8 EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />