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WATANABE:Okay. Who’s going to go first? <br />G. BRUMBAUGH:I’ll go first. <br />WATANABE:Okay, would you state your name and address for the record, <br />please? <br />G. BRUMBAUGH: I’m Gary Brumbaugh, same address as Penny Brumbaugh. <br />WATANABE:Go ahead. <br />G. BRUMBAUGH: Mr. Director, Mr. Chairman and Planning Commissioners, thank <br />you very much for sitting through this long arduous day. Thanks for coming to Kona to <br />hear this and all the other issues that were before you today. That’s really great for you <br />to do that. We do appreciate it when that happens. <br />I’m here simply to support my wife and my sisters-in-law in their endeavor and maybe to <br />answer some questions. As far as history of funeral homes I’ve worked on several <br />on the mainland and then helped in this one here. And I just wanted to reiterate how the <br />funeral home or the funeral parlor came to be known as a funeral home or a funeral <br />parlor, because they were, indeed, operated out of the mortician’s or the funeral director’s <br />home. It was the parlor downstairs, the funeral parlor; it was out of his home, the funeral <br />home. And that’s the atmosphere that my wife and sisters-in-law are trying to provide for <br />people in their most difficult time in their life. We try to avoid a sterile atmosphere. And <br />we have carpet on the floor, we have couches, not hard-back chairs, not, you know, <br />linoleum on the floor or something like that. The walls are painted a nice, soothing color. <br />There are paintings on the wall. It’s in every effort that we could do to make a home-like <br />atmosphere to try and help people in this very, very serious time in their life. <br />This location is perfect for that. It’s in the center of town, it’s right off of Kuakini, <br />everybody where it is. The former 7-Eleven, everybody knows where that is. I think that <br />the parking issue has been addressed and answered, I hope, to your satisfaction. We did <br />an awful lot of work when we started this business several years ago to try and locate a <br />building where we could operate. And we settled on this one; and it has worked quite <br />nicely for these couple of years. And I believe that the investigation that the Planning <br />Director had gone through the last week or two has shown that we were not impacting the <br />local areas as far as parking is concerned. <br />But my main thing is that it’s, I feel in my experience that it is important for a family to <br />be able to relax to the extent that they can relax, and the location of our funeral home <br />business is an aid to that. And I just would implore you to grant this additional use of our <br />facility so that we can continue to help the people of Kailua-Kona and the entire west side <br />of the island. <br />WATANABE:Thank you. <br />EXHIBIT D <br />17 <br /> <br />