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sustainability is changing how you make a decision. And I’ll just give one quick example is like
<br />on the Stanford Carr is, he says, okay, we’ll do it if it’s economically feasible in terms of how we
<br />handle the effluent – it’s, do it, do it, you know, show us that you’re not going to hurt the ocean.
<br />So I just want to bring up that 5.1, which is basically incorporating that Supreme Court
<br />precautionary principle into your decision making and helping to change the way we think in
<br />terms of long-term vision. Thank you.
<br />WATANABE: Okay, thank you, Ms. Wille. Do we have any questions for Ms. Wille? It
<br />doesn’t look like it. So you may be seated then. Okay. Alice Tinsman? Would you state your
<br />name and address, first.
<br />TINSMAN: I’m Alice Tinsman at 68-3720 Ehako Street, Waikoloa Village. And if
<br />you all look behind me, all the people in red are from Waikoloa Village who came out to support
<br />us. Okay, I sent you a letter, and I noticed after I’d sent it that I misspelled Mr. Rodney’s (sic)
<br />first name, Watanabe (sic), I misspelled it, I’m sorry, and I went back and hand-corrected it.
<br />But basically what I have to say here is that I am representing myself, part of this process and the
<br />fact that I’m Vice President of the Waikoloa Village Association. We have 8,000 acres
<br />surrounding Waikoloa Village that the board that I serve on – and I’m serving my second term –
<br />that we are responsible and stewards of that land. So we have a lot of responsibility. It’s open
<br />and we have to be very careful what happens to that land. During this process that we’ve gone
<br />through of planning all this, our councilman, Pete Hoffmann, came forward as Waikoloa Mauka
<br />and Bridge Aina Lea were going to go forward with their plans for their developments and their
<br />fair share monies would come through the Parks and Recreation, and asked the Association and
<br />the people of Waikoloa Village what would they like to see done with that money, and it came
<br />up with a community center. We had a committee on that community center that worked and
<br />worked and worked. And you’ll see in the Plan that the different areas for this community
<br />center, as those projects go forward, for us to be able to build. We went to our membership,
<br />which is required by our Bylaws, and we asked the members, “Do you want to use Waikoloa
<br />Village land for this?” because we cannot give our land away like this without permission of our
<br />3,000 lot owners, which is about 7,500 to 8,000 or 9,000 people. They approved it. The location
<br />has not been decided. In the Plan you will see there’s little stars around that we can use that.
<br />And so that’s one of the issues that we have solved as we’ve gone through this process.
<br />Having had a home here on the island for 21 years and lived on the island 16 – eleven of them
<br />were in Kona and five of them here in Waikoloa Village – I’m very aware of all of this. And I
<br />want to tell you I appreciate this process. I spent many, many times, when we lived in Kona, of
<br />going to Planning Commission meetings, and you did not listen to us. So this time, when the
<br />County came forward with the Community Development Plan and going ahead, putting it
<br />forward, I was very happy to get re-involved and think, well, maybe, you will listen, you will
<br />appreciate it, you will support it, and you’ll send it onto the Council for them to approve, so that
<br />when the community ask you for something, we live in this community whether it’s Waimea,
<br />Kawaihae, Puako or Waikoloa Village – since we are talking about South Kohala – and we are
<br />telling you how we feel, what we want, and we want you to listen.
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