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youth behind me that are going to be affected, directly affected, by the changes that happen in the environment, because they are the next generation. And although statements in our community meetings have been said that theyre going to take the youth from our community to help clean out these ponds and get it back and restore it to where it once was a thriving environment, what came after that was what appalled me as a Native Hawaiian, but also as an educated Native Hawaiian, as a student of the University of Hawaii at Hilo -- because they were going to get the students and the youth from our community to help them restore the ponds. But when the families come in and they move into their dwellings, our students and our youth will not have access to those ponds. Yet it was their mahi, it was their work and their paahana, that created those ponds so that that foundation for those homes that those families are living in are going to be paa and are going to be livable. Its not super science, I dont think. LikeIsaid,forme,Iwasrightacrossthestreetfor25yearsandInotoncehaveseenanyone come across and just ask what can you do to help us. Mahalo. WATANABE:Is that is? AH NEE:Yes. WATANABE:Okay, Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA:Couple of questions. AH NEE:Sure. SIRACUSA:One is youve, I read in some of the testimony that we got here that those ponds were used for a long time, you know, like there was a lot of garbage dumped in there, and there were a lot of druggies doing their things around there. And I was just wondering if living right across the street if you had ever seen fit to doing anything about that? AH NEE:Honestly, for 25 years I have never seen anyone other than maybe a few car accidents that happened on that turn that have actually impacted that environment across the street. I can assure you 9 out of 10 times that any drug activity that has occurred or any illegal activity that has occurred is probably not from the people from Keaukaha. SIRACUSA:I wasnt saying that it was from the people from there. I was just wondering, you know -- because I had seen a whole lot of testimony that there was a lot of garbage, and we were told that a lot of it had been hauled out a couple of years back -- if you had seen anybody doing that sort of thing since you are living right across the street. AH NEE:To my knowledge, no. SIRACUSA:Okay. My second question is that you were talking a lot about Mr. Barden, the developer, and lamenting that he had not come to your community a lot earlier and brought you into the loop to basically tap your knowledge about the area. However if this passes 13EXHIBIT A