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water, which, of course, is impossible. So now they’re spending a great deal of their funding on trucking water, and all the times we have big water trucks coming up. So there seems to be a difference of approach between a lot of these mental health things and the Marimed Corporation itself. They seem to be good in making enemies and alienating those whose neighborhoods they’ve entered. I wish it were otherwise, because I think we can all agree that this is a need that needs to be served. But I don’t know if they’re the low bidder, or the only bidder that’s attempting this sort of operation but it has proven pretty unpleasant for those that have to be around it. And the idea of trying to re-define what a family is as a way of increasing their ability to obtain funding on a per structure basis seems unfortunate, because it seems an unnecessarily broad net. Simply the fact that they are licensed by the Department of Health seems a little cavalier, based on what appears to me and many others the difference in their methods compared to some of the other examples we’ve heard today. So re-defining family, Mr. Yuen has said that there are many ways to go about it. But I can’t understand that this is the right one to try to re-define what a family is, simply by eight unrelated individuals sharing a living space. One might ask how many feathers do I need before you tell me I have a duck. It doesn’t follow; and it doesn’t make sense to a lot of people on the face of it, I think we’ve heard today. So I understand you’ll be going forward with this and hearing testimony from others on the other side of the island. I, myself, drove over to be here. But it may be that there’s another way of approaching this that might be fairer and take into account situations and the appropriateness of the way the people might take off with this, if they can stuff more people into a house through bunk beds, or whatever. And I’d be happy to answer any other questions about our experiences with this particular organization. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Graham? GRAHAM:I just wanted to ask Jeff in regard to the testimony, since we heard about two Marimed facilities now in Papaaloa as well as Keaau, I’m wondering if they have been cited for, you know, violations of our Zoning Code, or whether they’ve ever come to you for a special permit which they could apply for in order to be in conformance with the Ag District? DARROW:I’m not familiar with any violation or complaint from them previously when I was working as a zoning inspector. Do you know if they’re operating with more than five unrelated people? WALKER:I understand that, you know, in our zoning, which is Ag, that they are automatically able to operate with up to eight as it is currently. YUEN:I don’t know what the situation is in Marimed and Papaaloa. I don’t know anything about it. Aside from knowing that there’s a Marimed in Papaaloa, I don’t know anything about it. DARROW:It’s something we can look into and find out what the situation is there. EXHIBIT D 18