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GRAHAM:Like Commissioner Watanabe, I’m going to almost for sure be missing the next Hilo meeting so I might just toss my comments now. In general, I feel very much like Commissioner McCall. To me, to do this is to take the public out of the process; and I don’t do that lightly. And the Planning Director’s comment a few minutes ago that he thought, you know, that there are places where it’s appropriate and in places where it’s inappropriate, I don’t think he’s correct on that. And evidence to me is like fairly close to where I live in North Kohala there is a residential living facility for people who are recently out of drug programs and that house is also in an ag district. There are nearby residences, maybe not so much as Keaau, but it operates well. I don’t think there are any problems with the community. It has been there for a number of years, it’s fine; and, obviously, the one in Keaau or Papaaloa is not fine given by what we see is going on. So I think it is location specific. It may be good or it may not be good depending where. ALAMEDA:Any other comments to put on the table now before we sign out for today? Are we due for a continuance? MCCALL:Do we just continue? We need to move or -? ALAMEDA:Yes. We don’t need to make a motion to continue this for, it’s already continued, right? TORIGOE:I think it’s being scheduled. But if you want to just see if there’s any objections to continuing this and if there’s none, then that’ll be it. ALAMEDA:Is there any objection to continuing this to the Hilo meeting? Seeing none, so noted. All right, thank you, our citizens of the Big Island, for showing up today. Appreciate your patience and your testimony. The discussion ended at 5:30 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Sharon M. Nomura, Secretary EXHIBIT D 26