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WOODWELL: My name is Gloria Woodwell, and my physical address is 81-1025 A Kakou Place in Kealakekua at Keala Plantation Estates. HOUSEL: Thank you. NAVA: My name is Deborah Nava. My physical address is 81-1001 A Kakou Place in Kealakekua in Keala Plantation Estates. S. HOIST: My name is Shelley Hoist, and I’m speaking for myself and also for my neighbor, Teri McGuire. Her address is 81-1019 A Kakou Place, No. E2, Kealakekua, Hawai‘i. My address is, physical, 81-1016 Ohe Place, Kealakekua, Hawai‘i. P. HOIST: Paul Hoist. My physical location address is 81-1016 Ohe Place in Kealakekua. HOUSEL: I want to mention to you that we’ve got a tight schedule today, and if you could please limit your testimony to three minutes, we really appreciate that. Thank you. Ms. Woodwell, would you like to start first? WOODWELL: Yes. My main interest in coming here today is the lack of access for this facility that’s being planned. The road, Haukapila Road, as you know, is the only access to the hospital. Now this provides access and egress to the Community Hospital, as well as the courthouse, as well as the residences on that main highway. It puts a burden on the road. The road is not big enough. The condition of the road at times had been not the ideal. There were questions about, for many, many years, there were questions about who would fix that road; would it be the County, would it be the State, would it be the hospital? So that’s my primary concern – how that would impact the neighborhood. The second concern that I have, as testified by Dr. Sugai, yes, there is a shortage of doctors in this community; however, the shortage, I think, is not because there is a lack of buildings for them to occupy. I believe the primary reason for the shortage is the reimbursement; so that unless the reimbursement rates are addressed, having a building back there is not going to make a difference. Also, I’m kind of wondering what percentage of the doctors here now are in support of this plan. Then the other concern that I have is ultimately the plan for the hospital is to move downtown to the Honokhau area. I’m not sure how alive that plan is, but that is the final plan. So that would leave the existing Kona Community Hospital as, from what I understand, as a long-term facility or an emergency room for that part of the area. So that then, again, having this building would not really solve the dilemma that Doctor has presented with a lack of, so-called lack of space. So that’s all I have to say. Having been a nurse there for 23 years or more, I have seen the evolution of that building, as well as all the negative impact that that road has had on the nurses and all the workers at the hospital. HOUSEL: Thank you. 7 EXHIBIT A