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could have done 60 units; and he didnt do that. And he kept up like a very local; and I love that. Its just a beautiful project, so -. And thats what I wanted to say. WATANABE:Thank you. Any questions of the testifier? Seeing none, you may be seated. You must be Kale? GUMAPAC:Kale. WATANABE:Kale, Im sorry. GUMAPAC:My name is Kale Gumapac and with the Kanaka Council; and my address is HC 2, Box 9607, Puna. The Kanaka Council opposes this development. Many things have been said about the cultural assessments that I listened to. And its very obvious that the cultural assessment wasnt done right. The cultural assessment never went to the Hawaiian community, tospeaktotheHawaiianCommunitytogettheirmanao.AnditbothersmewhenIseethe developers here sitting at this table without any kanaka sitting with them. It bothers me. And it also bothers me when they start to throw the terminology around about the cultural assessment. What cultural assessments have they done? Did they do the cultural assessment of the plant? Did they do the cultural assessment of the pond? But who does the cultural assessment of the Hawaiian, of the kanaka and the impact that this development is going to have on the kanaka community? You have heard from this young kanaka wahine who has given her manao and all of the things that have happened, especially the bypass and not even coming to them to talk story and to get their manao as to how they feel. Secondly, in the restoration of the pond, the restoration of the pond, I feel that the County should take, you know the percentage that they use to go buy land so that they can preserve land, this area needs to be preserved. This shouldnt be developed because who is using the area? Its our kanaka community especially from Keaukaha. We know that along Keaukaha whenever people have been allowed to build homes, as well as condominiums along there, they have literally destroyed a lot of the aquifer and the waters coming up feeding into these ponds. Many years ago I was involved in the restoration of Waiuli. These were the ponds down at Richardsons Ocean Park. And I got together the community and we worked down for a year and a half to clear out all of the ponds. And one of the things that we found was that theres a brown house right along Kalanianaole just on the corner of Richardsons Ocean Park; and just prior to that they came in and they bulldozed to cover it up so that they can do backfill. And you know what they backfilled? They backfilled all of the fresh water springs that comes in to feed the ponds. Nobody said anything about that; and it killed the ponds in Waiuli. So what is going to happen when these developers come in and they put all of their concrete piers thats supposed to be raised above the water, 18 feet, so that supposedly theyre going to be protected by the tidal wave? Now thats one big joke. Because we know what happens, we know the destruction that has taken place. The second joke is to pretend that oh, theres only going to be 12 families thats going to need to evacuate the area. That dont count everybody else, all the issues taking place from other people that live all the way down to Kahakai, and along Nene Street, and along all of that area thats going feed into the evacuation route. And you add 12 more families, what, 12 more families no 19EXHIBIT A