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TESTIFIERS: I do. WATANABE: And in the event that you do provide testimony would you remember to state your name and address before providing the testimony. Would you like to begin, Nancy. PISICCHIO: My name is Nancy Pisicchio I’m working as the consultant for the Planning Department and assisting in the preparation of the Kona Community Development Plan. My address is 78-7240 Kuakini Highway, Kailua-Kona, 96740. WATANABE: Thank you. Anything else you want to bring up right now? PISICCHIO: Not at this time. Any questions if any of the Commissioners have I’d be happy to assist in explaining. WATANABE: Fellow Commissioners, do you have any questions for Ms. Pisicchio? Seeing none, Mr. Melrose. MELROSE: My name is Ken Melrose. I’ve served for the last couple years as the Chair of the Steering Committee. I live at 81-950 Onouli Road in Kealakekua. And the only aside from answering any questions that you might offer, I encourage your support for the Community Development Plan, Kona Community Development Plan, as presented to you. It provides an integrating mechanism for decisions both on public and private sectors and really sets a template that helps Kona begin to get out of the box it found itself in in the last couple of decades. We appreciate your kokua. WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have any questions for Mr. Melrose? MATSUKAWA: Earl Matsukawa, Wilson Okamoto Corporation. I’m a project manager; and Wilson Okamoto is the prime contractor for this project. And our office is 1907 South th Beretania, 4 Floor, Honolulu. WATANABE: Thank you. Mr. Domingo, looks like you have a question. DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First, Mr. Okamoto (sic), I commend you folks for the quality of work that has been put out, and that goes with the Kona Committee also. It just takes me, and I make comparisons of other development plans throughout the island in the past. This is something that’s noteworthy; and I appreciate the work that they’ve done, and more so because of the contents within the study, the plan itself. It seems to cover all bases and aspects of, you know, growth issues and the future of the community. And I know that this has come about because of the participation of a lot of people in the community. As I was looking at this and as I, you know, I’m just, you know, when we considered the Community Development Plan, there were some serious discussions about the Hawaiians and the cultural aspects of it, of the whole island in fact, and the need for us and the people in the community to recognize actually the importance and thereby appreciating it. And we made certain changes, and recommended certain changes in the Puna Community Development Plan. EXHIBIT C 2