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received a flyer – in the flyer, the North Kohala CDP, they were told that it was available online and where they could get access to that, and we put the link in. We put a limited amount of hard copies in the community at three locations: Nakahara Store, Takata Store and the Kohala Resource Center – I think we put 150 copies of the public review drat, which was pretty quickly disseminated to everyone. Also in the flyer the names of the Steering Committee members were made available to the public, and they were told that the Steering Committee would be available to answer any questions or concerns that the community had, along with contact information for the Planning Department. Along with the flyer Bruce developed a – I think it was a four-page – summary of the Plan with highlights; that was also included in the mailout. And finally, an announcement of the third community meeting, the place, time, location, was provided for the community in that mailout. In May the third community meeting was held in this room, in this cafeteria, to a standing-room- only crowd. By most estimates between 200 to 220 people attended and lots of public input on the Plan. Then from May through July the Steering Committee, Focus Group and Townscape used that community input, and developed a series of iterations out of the CDP to finally end up with what you have in front of you. And that in a nutshell – sorry, so brief and so quick – is the planning process for the North Kohala CDP. So if you have any questions, you can either ask me now or I’ll turn it over to Bruce who will give you folks the content. WATANABE: Well, do we have any questions of Mr. Salavea, Fellow Commissioners? Yes, Mr. Woodward. WOODWARD: Well, I have a comment and several questions, but maybe it would be better to hear all the presenters first and then -, I might suggest that we allow the other two to speak and then we can address, and any of the three can answer our questions, if that’s acceptable to the Chair. WATANABE: Fine. That sounds good to me. Someone might answer the question you had anyway, yeah? Mr. Tsuchida, name and address, please. I understand you are the consultant for the County. TSUCHIDA: Yes, thank you. Good evening, Mr. Chair, Planning Director and Planning Commissioners. My name is Bruce Tsuchida. My address is 1159 Kamiloiki Place, Honolulu. And I’m the president of a planning company called Townscape, Inc. We were selected by the County to be the planning consultant for both the North Kohala and the South Kohala CDPs. So back in May – I believe it was – of 2007, at the start of our contract I had a very interesting conversation with your Planning Director about schedule; and he told me we need to get these Plans put together and to the Planning Commission no later than August next year. So effectively we were going to start working with the community in June; so that gave us about 13 months to do these two Plans. Of course, being a conscientious planning consultant, I told your Planning Director we can do it. However – I have to share with you – I went back to my office the next day and shared this news with my staff, and they said we can’t do it, that’s impossible EXHIBIT A 4