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the record as you get up to testify. Would you all raise your right hand, please? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth now before the Hawai`i County Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS:I do. WATANABE:Thank you. Are you in receipt of the packet from the Director and the Planning Department? CARROLL:I have. WATANABE:I assume you have some comments. CARROLL:Yeah. Good afternoon or Aloha, Aloha ‘Auinala. My name John Carroll. I’m the attorney for A Hui Hou funeral group here; and I would like, first of all, to thank each of you gentlemen who’s here serving, doing this public service for, both for your interest, your involvement, your patience. I say that sincerely. We’re here today, and I appreciate very much the Chairman’s change of position on the current or his previous attitude on the parking. That was covered pretty thoroughly by the Design Commission; and they came out with a recommendation which you have, and which I believe has now been made part of this record, if I’m not mistaken. In any event, there are, the issue of a crematory is extremely volatile and very much misunderstood. And when my clients here came to me, first they wanted to open a funeral home which I had never done; and then I thought, well, okay, we’ll do that, got that underway. And then a few months ago they came and said now they want to put in a crematory. And I think Chris Yuen and I had about the same reaction when I heard that and I said, “Are you sure?” You know, they are. Well, we looked at it and, so, we’re asking you today to look at the facts. There’s a lot of emotion, there’s a lot of antagonism and there’s a lot of pure baloney. And they say, you know, no matter how thin you slice it, baloney is still baloney. With that in mind, I would like to ask if you look at a numbered document in the file which is 16220, it’s a letter from Mr. Nakakura to Mr. Yuen. And if you look at that letter it will show you or he says in it that, this is 16220 dated, it’s stamp-dated at June 30, 2006, and he’s talking about his own operation, “ There is a smoky odor and small bit of ash on our vehicles after a cremation no matter how careful we are.” And then down in the second paragraph he says, “If you,” essentially paraphrasing, “If you allow this to go on,” and then he says, “by then it would be too late for anything to be done. A Hui Hou won’t be able to stop cremations based upon complaints. They would have invested too much to shut it down.” Well, I happen to know enough about government in this State to know that that’s absolutely false. I also know enough about suing manufacturers, to be able to have gone after them had these expressed warranties been false. EXHIBIT D 3