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Ruth Smith and Tom Kelly. And finally, I’d like to acknowledge Alice Tinsman who was communications coordinator, it seemed. Mahalo. WATANABE: Thank you. Fellow Commissioners, do we have any questions for Ms. Mrasek? Seeing none. Thank you. Anika? Is that correct? GLASS: Anika Glass. I’m from Waikoloa. That was really well done, Marjorie. I think that it’s important to know how much our community appreciated the opportunity that the County gave us to participate in this planning process, and how readily people stepped up to it and stepped into it, and people were found and did come forward, and put tremendous effort into it. It’s been a tremendous opportunity to participate in something like that. In terms of whether it’s a South Kohala Plan or a Waikoloa Plan or a Kamuela Plan, I think initially it did have to start out to be separate plans because we each had such pent-up need to express what our needs were in our communities. And I think we also recognized that people in Kamuela could probably plan circles around the rest of us. So we do, though, I think, definitely believe that we are all part of a larger community. We know that infrastructure problems in Waimea, Kamuela and in Kawaihae are as critical to us as they can possibly be, even though we are in Waikoloa. I would ask that you not nitpick this Plan; that your nit is probably something that was wordsmithed for dozens of hours by many people, and that it could be a form of disrespect to try to pick the Plan apart and find little things wrong with it. I would encourage you to forward this entire Plan onto our County Council Planning Committee. Thank you. WATANABE: Thank you. Mr. Woodward. WOODWARD: Yeah, I would echo what you had to say with regard to the Planning Department’s efforts, and I think all the tribute there goes to Allen Salavea who has done a fabulous job both in the North Kohala and the South Kohala Community Development Plans. And you know, we are not nitpicking so much as pointing out things that don’t seem exactly right. It doesn’t necessarily mean that we are not going to vote it through as it is, but there is room for some changes to occur, and we’ve seen that with the North Kohala Plan – mainly matters of clarification. So, but again, hats off to Allen Salavea and all of volunteers. I think they’ve done a great job. WATANABE: Any further questions? Okay. Beverly Brand? BRAND: Hello. I’m here, I live in Waikoloa at 68-3720 Lua Hoana Place. I’m representing the Waikoloa Village Outdoor Circle. And I would like to thank the Steering Committee and all of the people that paid attention, asked us for our opinions, asked us what we wanted, and actually listened to us and wrote it down, and I think they did a great job. I’m here mostly just to represent the Outdoor Circle members who are very concerned about environmental stewardship, open space, parks, green space around our Village that would act as a fire break. We have, the Outdoor Circle has a license agreement with the Village Association to steward 275 acres that we call the Waikoloa Dry Forest Recovery Project. In our Project, in the next 15 years we will remove all of the grass, build a fence around it, keep out the goats. In EXHIBIT E 23