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going to take us two years. ItÓs how can we get around all this stuff. Well done. Any questions? Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Sumada, what about the pre-existing conditions that exists today? SUMADA: As previous testifiers had mentioned, the intersection at Government Road and Highway 130 is a major concern for the State Highways. It is a site of a lot of crashes. Due to the way we count these crashes the close proximity of the Malama Market intersection is kind of like counted in that total. The projects that we have on the books in the future are going to look at not just that intersection but theyÓre going to look at the whole four intersection locations all at once to try and figure out whatÓs the long-term solution to make this whole area operate safer and more efficiently, recognizing the businesses and the type of activities that are going on there. So we do have in our plans an effort to makes those types of improvements. And in actuality thatÓs how a lot of the community provided input to me and how m have gotten my cell phone number that they call me about twice a month to remind me that I better hurry up and start making these projects happen. And so, well, we recognize the communityÓs concerns and we are making efforts to accelerate those projects. DOMINGO: ThereÓs no timetable? SUMADA: There actually is a time -. I donÓt have all the different projects that we have. ThereÓs actually about five of them that we have programmed betw first one comes on line maybe 2012; and then the major one that weÓre working with the community on is the KeaÒau-Phoa improvement project. That major project is programmed to be finished in 2018. So we think between 2012 and 2018 there would be about five safety and capacity projects that State Highways will be undertaking. ItÓs just the concern about the Woodland Center Development opening created this urgency that we needed to do something now before 2012. DOMINGO: So these are anticipated improvements that would go far beyond into the future, and taking into consideration the potential growth thatÓs taking place right there? SUMADA: Yes. DOMINGO: And the whole Puna area? SUMADA: Yes. And, in fact, when we analyzed this, if you look at the drawing that I have, the green shaded roadways are the, theyÓre both State and County roads. We didnÓt distinguish them; and we didnÓt have time to differentiate the two. But when you look at it, there are basically four intersections that weÓre dealing with. Okay, the highlighted blue one, thatÓs the new construction that the developer is going to undertake for the right-in/right-out to connect Kahakai to Highway 130, because that connection doesnÓt exist right now. ItÓs a deadend. When we looked at these four intersections to look at the longer improvements, weÓre also going to come up with not only what weÓre going to do on State right-of-ways, thus the KeaÒau-Phoa Highway 130, but weÓre also going to make recommendations on what the County can do on 14 EXHIBIT A