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do, one is, with traffic and, one is, with housing.And we had to go ahead and make sure that we <br />were respectful of the role of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and their lessees to have <br />them deal with the challenges before them as their business and not ours to butt into. <br />Specifically, when it comes to transportation, the bypass, it does affect them. That’s an issue that <br />that body has to work out with its lessees; it wasn’t our business to intervene. In the same token <br />we do collectively feel we badly need to improve transportation through our community. And I <br />don’t think there is a person in South Kohala that wouldn’t say if we had a bypass today, we <br />would all be very, very happy people. But the other aspect of being sensitive to the fact that <br />South Kohala is a very Hawaiian community, that there is a historic Kuhio Village community <br />and also those homes that have been planted in Lalamilo. Yes, they will affect our traffic, it will <br />impact our community, but those have been granted as rights to those people and in effect it <br />doubles up and helps us address the issue of affordable housing. So in those two regards we <br />really, again, were sensitive to those bodies of landowners that do have, that would be definitely <br />impacted by anything that would be too rigid, too harsh and not manageable or negotiable. <br />So I would like to close my part with an expression of gratitude to our cohorts, those of us that <br />served on that Committee that so loyally came to those, especially in the last few weeks, for the <br />intensity grew to be almost weekly and then nightly, and everyone hung in there and learned a lot <br />from each other. So I express that as a token, more than a token, of appreciation to each of the <br />members. Thank you. I’ll take any questions that are necessary. <br />WATANABE: Do we have any questions for Mr. Bergin? <br />WOODWARD: If I might. I think maybe it would be best if we handle this as we did the <br />last CDP; and that is, give all the people who want to testify a chance to give their testimony, if <br />that’s all right with Mr. Chairman, and then we can throw the questions out because I have a few. <br />WATANABE: Okay, okay. So you are suggesting that maybe we take all of the public <br />testimony first -. <br />WOODWARD: No, no, just the -. <br />WATANABE: Oh, just all of the -. <br />WOODWARD: Just the Steering Committee. I think we’ve got one more member here. <br />WATANABE: Okay, yes, okay. Mr. Williams (sic), then. And we’ll come back and ask <br />questions of each of you. So if you care to add, Mr. Williams (sic), anything to this -. <br />WARNER: It’s Mr. Warner, Commissioner Chairman -. <br />WATANABE: Excuse me, excuse me, Mr. Warner, I’m sorry. <br />WARNER: It’s all right. You are not the only one who’s ever done that. I was really <br />here unsure if Dr. Bergin was going to come. But he’s done what he was going to do much <br />better than I could, so I’ll pass at this time. <br />EXHIBIT E <br />7 <br /> <br />