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work towards the end, to make North Kohala basically the best community that you want it to be and not what the Planning Commission or the County Council tells you what it should be. Because to me it will be a much better way to achieve the optimum community that you want in North Kohala. And, you know, coming from Hilo I, hopefully, some day soon will have one or two Community Development Plans through our area and we can use that process, you know, for Hilo; and that’s how I view it. So I really appreciate, I want to acknowledge and encourage Mr. Luce and others in the North Kohala community to continue to come out, to continue to participate and make this process work. Because if this becomes, if this, the North Kohala Community Development Plan, becomes another piece of paper like the Community Development Plan we have for Hilo, basically it sits on the shelf. It gets referenced in our applications now in Hilo for, you know, zoning changes and so forth, and basically it’s given short drift. You know, it was done more than 20 years ago, all these other stuff has happened in between, and it’s not really given any credence because there’s no vehicle for updating it and making it work. With Community Development Plans and the action committee legislation that’s going through now that, you know, that that in my mind hopefully makes it a living working document around which the community can, you know, make itself better. Thank you, Mr. Chair. WATANABE: Thank you. Any further questions, comments? Okay, as I had indicated earlier, we’re not going to make a decision now. This is the second read so the decision will be th made on September 4 in Hilo. Yeah? And so that would conclude the discussion on this Agenda Item No. 5. The discussion ended at 4:13 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Sharon M. Nomura, East Hawaii Secretary A T T E S T: Noriko Sauer, West Hawaii Secretary EXHIBIT D 13