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PALMA-GLENNIE: I really appreciate what you are saying and I guess maybe I wasn’t clear; maybe other people weren’t, either. But I think that’s the thing is that the Plan is very inclusive and so many people have done so much work; but so many people have to do more. And I think that if we – you’re right – let go of the pressure thing about it and look in the future about how much more is going to happen, I don’t think that people need to feel that -, well, I mean, the document is very structured but it is still open. I mean, to me it doesn’t have every little thing, you know, every i dotted and -. WATANABE: Okay. Mr. Woodward, you had some comments? WOODWARD: Yeah, just regarding this question of amendments. We sent the Puna Community Development Plan with the favorable recommendation to County Council with six amendments. Now – and I’ll address this to Mr. Torigoe – if we suggest amendments, does that delay anything? Or Mr. Yuen. WATANABE: Sure, Mr. Yuen. YUEN: The reason I want to jump on that is that I can explain the process and I can explain the timeline for all of this. First, the Planning Commission can recommend amendments; only the County Council can actually make amendments. So even the amendments that I’ve suggested to the Puna Community Development Plan, somebody at the County Council has to make a motion to insert those for those even to be on the floor of the County Council. So there is that point. Now, any substantive amendment, if the Council -, it takes three votes by the Council to pass the Community Development Plan; they vote once in the committee, then they have first reading and then they have second reading – so that takes three votes at the Council. If the Council votes at any of those points to make a substantive amendment, the amendments go back to the Steering Committee for their comment and to the Planning Commission for its recommendation. So where we are at on the timeframe actually, with the Puna Community Development Plan, I actually met yesterday with a group of people who were lobbying to pass the Plan as is with no amendments and amend later because they were very concerned about it getting passed right now. The Puna Plan just barely has enough time; if the Council were – the Council is going to thth take it up on July 30 – if the Council passes a group of amendments on July 30, we have enough time to cycle it back through the Steering Committee and the Planning Commission and to get it to the Council for -, they will need two more votes at that point. Okay, there is just enough time to do that with the Puna Plan. There is not enough time to do that with the Kona Plan or either of the Kohala Plans. In the Kona Plan, if it first time went to the Council, they voted to amend it and it went through this process, it could possibly make it, if the Planning Commission took a minimum amount of time necessary and the Council were for example to reschedule and have special meetings and the like; but we cannot assure that it would – taking the scenario of the Planning Commission takes the maximum amount of time that’s allowed by the ordinance and so forth – we could not assure that it would be able to pass in the term of this Council. Now, it’s not absolutely necessary that it pass in the term of this Council or in the term of this administration; it will still be on their agenda. Certainly, though, once you’ve had a series of discussions with the Council, we would like it to go through in that Council. There will be at EXHIBIT D 17