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IWASHITA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to make my record acknowledging all of your participation and your turning out tonight. The value of your work, in my mind, is only partially reflected in this book. And I join the applause that you gave yourselves earlier. I just had one comment on what Dr. Bergin mentioned earlier, and I think his words are something to the effect of having the opportunity for, or being afforded the opportunity for planning this far ahead. I’m not exactly sure what you meant by that, but I took it to mean, you know, your expression of gratitude and being involved in the process. And I want to, it’s called the Plan. In our off-the-record discussion earlier, the Director mentioned the difference between a plan and a program. And Community Development Plan in my mind is more of a program, and is probably a misnomer. The Council passed the action committee legislation recently, which basically will give a structure, right, a process by which you can work your Plan, you know, to address further the affordable housing concerns and those things in your communities that you’ve expressed the need to deal with. And so I just wanted to make my record, again, congratulate all of you for all your hard work and I encourage you to double that effort to make sure it gets done. Thank you, Mr. Chair. WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have any -? Yes, Mr. Woodward. WOODWARD: I would just like to once again congratulate everybody. I think they’ve done an excellent job. And I did bring up a few points that I had concerns with, but I think the document itself is very well done, and with a few minor tweaks, I have no problem with it at all. IWASHITA: Mr. Chair. WATANABE: Yes, Mr. Iwashita. IWASHITA: I’m sorry. I had a couple of things, I forgot. Thank you. Besides the form of the Plan in having, you know, specifics for Waimea, Waikoloa and so forth – I think that’s great. In my mind that’s the preferred way to go and I think that in that way you are able to engage more people in each of the communities in getting things done. And the other thing I wanted to say is, I want to make sure on the record everybody knows I’m a lawyer, okay? So hopefully, you know, you think sometimes you can be nice. Thanks. WOODWARD: If you need a lawyer, give him a call. IWASHITA: No, please don’t. WATANABE: Okay, any further questions, comments? Mr. Domingo. DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, I looked at the Plan, at the very beginning, it seems to me like it’s a message just coming to me. Just even in reading a part of it there is a message that comes to me and that it tells me that we are all stewards of the land which we live upon, and that there is a strong sense of feeling from the people within the planning area who feel that it’s a special place, a very special place. And that’s common with other Community Development Plans which we have reviewed during the past month, you know – EXHIBIT E 13