2023-06-02 DRAFT Joint Meeting Exh A (Public Testimony)

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being more inclusive to our island's residents and giving authority to County Council and really creating and having a conversation around offshore setback and what that looks like with in conjunction to preservation. So, therefore, I believe this is not ready yet. There's a lot of noted questions and red flags for us. So, we strongly oppose this today. Mahalo for your time. LIN: Thank you for your testimony. Any questions for this testifier. If not, we'll move on to the next one. HATA: Our next testifier is Cory Harden. HARDEN: Good morning, Commissioners. Cory Harden from Hilo. Thank you for your volunteer service. I just want to say I'm very concerned about what I'm hearing from the other testifiers. I hope you take it to heart. First, regarding public notice. I only found out about this meeting because a friend told me. My email notices suddenly stopped coming and no one been able to fix the problem. Then the Board and Commissions webpages did not show this meeting till after I asked that it be included. Now it is. On shoreline setbacks. I hope you're looking at what the other islands are doing. I did not attempt to do a thorough study of all the different island rules. They're incredibly complex. But I did notice that they use erosion-based formulas all the other islands and Oahu and Kauai they have some provision for a 60-foot setback. For archaeological resources I support the most protective measures which seem to be an archaeological inventory report or a no-effect letter from DLNR. You never know where you might find cultural resources just based on my own limited cultural experience. When I was 10 years old which was a long time ago. I was digging in the sand at the beach at Waipi`o and I dug up a skull and my mother looked very shocked, and she said, "we'll just cover it up". Which I did. I have no idea what happened to it and several years later my sister went on an archaeological trip to Kauai and the person in charge told her to go into a burial cave and take some bones out. Which she did and gave it to the person in charge and she doesn't know what happened to them. I've been told there's a burial cave in the impact area of P6hakuloa. No one has ever really checked on it and the Army just keeps bombing; they will not go in to check. As everyone knows there's many significant artifacts probably destroyed before there were any laws passed and still many troublesome things going on to this day. Let's see, on the rebuild rules. It looks like you could do multiple projects costing just under the 50% cost of replacement— HATA: 30 seconds remaining. HARDEN: — rebuilding but you could avoid oversight. Okay. Thank you for your service. LIN: Thank you for your testimony. Are there any questions for this testifier? Seeing none, we'll move onto the next testifier. HATA: Our last testifier is Antu Harvey. 5 EXHIBIT A (DRAFT)