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WOODWARD: Mr. Chairman, I would just like to say this is completely unintelligible to me. I haven’t heard a word. I’ll ask Mr. Torigoe about electronic testimony. But this is unintelligible, and I think we are wasting our time. WATANABE: Mr. Isaacs, you know, generally when we allow testimony, we put a time limit on the testimony; and I feel that’s how long that clip runs, yeah. (Mr. Isaacs turned off the audio presentation at this point.) And with that in mind, you know, generally our time limit is between three to five minutes. I would like to point out, I think we have the general gist of what the clip was about because we did have a report and we did have the opportunity to review that report on numerous occasions, as we already indicated, because we reviewed this particular application a good number of times. So I realize you are looking at the flood situation. Do you have anything further to add to the clip? ISAACS: Yes, I’d like to comment basically on that. WATANABE: Briefly? ISAACS: Very briefly. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. ISAACS: What you are seeing there is accumulation of damage over the years. And normally, normal weather patterns, rain and stuff, the coral gets ruined. What’s happened over the years is that as development has increased, so has the damage to the reef at a rate substantial. But what you didn’t see is that it does move out to the depth of 65 feet where you have coral reefs out there that are also impacted and dead because of the sediment that is coming down from the developments mauka of Akoni Pule. My point is that the closer you get, the harder it is to mitigate any kind of situation once you start developing, and the damage will be even worse. Thank you. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. Do we have any questions for Mr. Isaacs? Seeing none, thank you for your testimony, Mr. Isaacs. It will be reflected in the record. Okay, well, as we’ve discussed earlier, we’ve rehashed this particular item on numerous occasions. Mr. Woodward. WOODWARD: Yeah, I would like to support the Planning Director’s recommendation that we send a negative recommendation to County Council regarding REZ 08-whole bunch of zeros-79. That’s pretty much it. WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have a second to that? DOMINGO: Second. WATANABE: Mr. Domingo. Thank you. Okay, we have a motion on the table. Is any discussion necessary? Or shall we take a vote? Mr. Darrow. EXHIBIT C 5