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however, with a set of expectations and understanding of what was going to happen in the process. And together Logistics Team and CRP folks and the Steering Committee worked to clarify those expectations, so that we would have a better sense of purpose. And in terms of engaging the broadest section of our communities, we had all of the various age groups; the demographics speak for themselves in the document, I think, and our minutes speak for that, the focus Group participation and community meetings. So the Steering Committee does feel that we’ve engaged the broadest cross-section of our community possible. The second item is, on behalf of the Steering Committee, our ideas on the level of success. Our process overall was again to bring together an interesting and diverse group; we were, as Steering Committee members, an interesting and diverse group, which was healthy albeit sometimes a contentious situation. But the Steering Committee did their best to remain neutral and to look for what would be fair and reasonable representation in our guide, in our document. And so the diverse group we had to adjust -, another thing that we had to adjust to was the Sunshine Law. In the beginning there were some struggles with how to handle that and how to work and how to move forward with that. I’m sure you folks understand that clearly. But ultimately some of us, even the most skeptical, saw the merit. And so that takes me to a little comment on the Focus Group process. And the guidelines for us called for the responsibility and the kuleana of the Focus Group to be that of our planning consultant. And fortunately, in most cases we had Focus Groups members that were extremely engaged, very committed and looked to bring forth those important issues and solutions. And so that -, they did a lot of hard work; they did the heavy lifting.And thanks to that hard working committee and community volunteers, and the Steering Committee members who served or guided or attended some of those meetings – there was a lot of labor – the Focus Group even survived the round robin that, although they were uncomfortable with it, was very effective to nail some of the pie-in-the-sky ideas and look at how again we could come to something fair and reasonable. So the Steering Committee took on that responsibility, one of their twelve, guiding it to balance. And we think that one of the things that could have been done better perhaps with the Focus Group situations and process may be to ensure somehow that they were also required to adhere to something similar to the Sunshine Law, so that we would ensure a broadest spectrum being represented each time some of the ideas came forward. I think ultimately that did happen; but it was because everyone stayed at attention for how we could have the broadest group represented and the greatest breadth of ideas. The third point is the general feel from the community whether or not they are supportive of this Plan. And I think that – on behalf of the Steering Committee I can say this – that not all of us have exactly what we wanted or what we want in the Plan, but everyone has something of what they want in the Plan and all of us will continue to have say through the action programs, the action steps and the guidance that’s there in the Plan. We know that this Plan reflects our desire to maintain most of our cultural lifestyle and the ways of living. We know that we cannot keep Kohala exactly as Kohala is, but we look to this Plan as a means to keep Kohala spirit. And there was someone that said what is popular is not always right and what is right is not always popular. But our CDP document is right and it is popular. I want to thank everyone for all of their hard work. This is so exciting for us. Mahalo. EXHIBIT A 6