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M. MATSUKAWA: I didn’t sign up. My name is Michael -. WATANABE: Yeah. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Planning Commission? M. MATSUKAWA: I do. My name is Mike Matsukawa. My address is Hind Road, Captain Cook, Kawaloa, South Kona. I’m a member of the Steering Committee. I just wanted to nip this dialogue as quickly as I could.I’ve spoken to Mr. Murata about this issue before. I think what Mr. Alameda is talking about – and Mr. Rho – is covered by Chapter 5, which is the implementation section. The major direction in Chapter 4 outlines new roads, expansion of existing roads, new infrastructure. The ongoing maintenance of Hine Road where I live, where Napoopoo Road going down to Kealakekua Bay, is not in here because it’s part of our ongoing maintenance programs, highway safety, which is addressed in the Plan. Now, Chapter 5 is a new dynamic for people who are not quite familiar with how the CIP and budgetary process works. To a large degree, if you go to a County Council committee hearing on the budget, five people show up at the public hearings; it’s a complicated subject matter. What Chapter 5 does is on Page 5-7 it creates and charges the Implementation Committee with this important function of considering budgetary issues, CIP – Chairman mentioned – Public Works types of improvement requirements for existing facilities and roadways. And this creates a public process and a public forum for the community to discuss, you know; we have access to five million dollars of fuel tax money, how do we apply it? Do we fix Napoopoo Road before we fix something up in Kalaoa? If the Pulama program goes on with the Heritage Corridor, could we leverage county money and federal funds to improve the safety and cultural aspects of the roadway? So I think that’s what Marni Herkes was talking about is the Plan dose give you the structure to address these kinds of concerns as they arise. Thank you. WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have any questions for Mr. Matsukawa? Seeing none, again, last call, anyone else would care to testify? Yes, ma’am. Okay. May I swear you in. Would you raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Planning Commission? PALMA-GLENNIE: Yes, I do. My name is Janice Palma-Glennie. I’m a resident of Kona, P. O. Box 4849, Kailua-Kona is my address. And just briefly, because of the discussion of amending the Plan, I want to say one thing that amending the Plan which included input from an unprecedented amount of people in this community and other stakeholders will only make the people of Kona wait longer to have better planning and community-generated development, which are the two things they’ve been crying out for. I urge you folks to please pass this Plan intact. There are other times that we will be able to take up issues that need to be looked at as things progress. But right now this community wants you to pass this Plan, and they want a plan, they want a regional plan, they need a regional plan; and this is the time that we can really have that happened and we can make true progress. So thank you very much for the time that you spent working on this; I know it’s been a huge effort for everyone. WATANABE: Thank you. EXHIBIT D 15