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WATANABE: Okay, thank you. Then, well, you wouldn’t have to, Allen, since you are I
<br />believe de facto, so -, but if the others provide testimony, I guess they still have to provide their
<br />full name and address for the record. Are you going to begin, then, Mr. Salavea?
<br />SALAVEA: Yes.
<br />WATANABE: Okay, great. It’s yours.
<br />SALAVEA: If I may, Mr. Chair. Aloha, Mr. Chair, Director Yuen, esteemed
<br />Commissioners. My name is Allen Salavea. I’m the project manager for the North Kohala
<br />Community Development Plan. On behalf of the Kohala community, I’d like to welcome you
<br />and thank you for making the time to come to Kohala to have the first hearing on the North
<br />Kohala CDP in the district, which is much appreciated.
<br />Before I begin, I’d like to take care of a few housekeeping items. No. 1, most important, the luas
<br />is against that building – so for everybody who doesn’t know men’s and women’s bathrooms,
<br />out that way. So if you get a problem, you can ask the staff or my wife to the right.
<br />I’d like to first introduce the North Kohala CDP Steering Committee members present this
<br />evening for your benefit. If I may ask those of the Steering Committee members present in the
<br />audience, if you could please stand, and then I’ll identify you folks. I’m not sure how many of
<br />them; in the far back we have Mr. Mike Isaacs, here to my immediate left – Ms. Carolyn
<br />Lancaster, in the far part of the room on the right in the yellow shirt – Mr. Alvin Kawamoto, and
<br />immediately in front of him – Mr. Ted Matsuda, and of course, Fern White who is the Chair. I
<br />think that’s it, yeah? If anyone comes in, please let me know, and I’ll introduce them.
<br />Next, for the benefit of the public, I’d like to run through the approval process very quickly.
<br />We’re starting here; this is the first hearing by the Planning Commission to review and approve
<br />the North Kohala CDP. There will be three opportunities to, or this will be heard at three
<br />separate meetings. We sent mailout with a timeline on it. The first is this evening’s meeting.
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<br />The second will be August 22, and that will be at the Waikoloa Marriott, if I’m correct, yeah.
<br />And the third, final Planning Commission hearing will be in Hilo at the County building on
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<br />September 4; at that meeting we hope that the Planning Commissioners with their great wisdom
<br />will go ahead and approve the North Kohala CDP. And at that time it will be transmitted with
<br />their recommendation to the County Council. At the ending -, the second part of September, or
<br />later part, we hope to get on the Planning Committee, which is a sub-committee of the County
<br />Council, on their agenda, and then they’ll have one hearing at the Planning Committee level;
<br />they’ll make a recommendation. And hopefully, in October we’ll have two hearings by the full
<br />Council on the North Kohala CDP, and hopefully be approved in the ending part of October. So
<br />that’s a real quick run-through on the approval process. So if you haven’t had a chance to read
<br />the document yet, there is still a lot of opportunity to go through it, review it, get your input, and
<br />then supply that to either the Planning Commission or the County Council.
<br />Finally, I’d like to, for the Planning Commissioners’ benefit, I’d like to give you an idea what we
<br />will be presenting this evening. Beginning with myself, I will briefly cover the CDP planning
<br />process and key dates for you. I will then ask Mr. Bruce Tsuchida from Townscape
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