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that would probably take care of any flooding issues after the construction, right, but not during the construction? EMLER: Yeah, the requirement is for the developer to dispose of development generated runoff. So the runoff that’s been described by the neighboring property owners, though, is runoff that is occurring now, and that runoff is not required to be disposed of as part of the development process because it is existing and the developer is not required to dispose of existing runoff; they are allowed to let that continue. BOWMAN: Thank you. HOUSEL: Any other questions of Mr. Emler? Thank you very much, Ki. I’d like to recall the applicants, please. GONZALEZ: Mr. Chair, while the applicant is coming back to the table, I’ve been asked by staff to make an announcement. Item No. 5 on the agenda – and this is for members of the public who have signed up to testify and are waiting – it was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. There is a request to withdraw the application, meaning that they are not going to ask for whatever it is they are asking in the application. But you still have the right to give public testimony on Item No. 5 because it is on the agenda; but if you are objecting to the project, you don’t have to stick around, if you don’t want to, because they are actually withdrawing the request, so the Commission will be deciding on accepting the withdrawal later today. Thank you. HOUSEL: Thank you, Counselor. Remind you, you are still under oath. Would you like to respond to some of the concerns? FUKE: Sure, thank you very much. And I think all three of us will respond in different areas of our so-called “knowledge.” First of all, I’d like to respond to the area of the ownership. In the application that I had prepared and submitted, I don’t know whether there have been some factual changes to that, but I had attached a resolution that was approved by the County back in 1977 – it’s Resolution No. 128. And I’ll just read a certain section. It reads that the easement is owned, the property “is owned by the Department of Health, State of Hawai‘i, but has been transferred to the County of Hawai‘i by Executive Orders 1842 and 2486.” So unless there’s been some nullification of that transfer, then I would assume that the County at this point in time will still retain jurisdiction; but I don’t want to go down that road since I’m not an attorney and whatever, but this is the only thing I had. I know that there’ve been multiple concerns raised, and one of which dealt with whether there is an effective demand for such a facility and whether if you build, will the doctors come, so on and so forth, and on that I’d like to kind of defer that to Dr. Sugai. On the issue of the eucalyptus trees, the value, its ability to be retained, so on and so forth, I’d like to defer that portion to Mr. Ghalamfarsa who is the land planner and architect for this project. 17 EXHIBIT A