2005-08-26 SPP 05-012 Motorsports

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CRAWFORD:Mark K. Crawford and my residence is 81-1207 Greenwell Mountain Road, Captain Cook, Hawai i. GALDONES:Mr. Crawford have you received a copy of the background report and the recommendations? CRAWFORD:Yes I have. GALDONES:Do you have any comments to those documents? CRAWFORD:Actually were very comfortable with the list of the conditions as set out by Director Yuen and his staff. And, you know were trying to promote a safe environment for families to come and pursue the things that make them feel happy, such as riding off road motorcycles and ATVs and thats what were about. GALDONES:Thank you. Commissioners are there any questions of Mr. Crawford? CommissionerGraham? GRAHAM:Mr.Crawford.Itsreallyourissueisjustalanduseissue.Butjustfroma little bit of familiarity in Hilo with the drag racing circuit and all that where thereve been some kind of personal discord going on between whos in charge of this and is it going to be authorized by this and all. I just want to stick my nose a little bit into the idea of how you folks are going to run this and you being from Captain Cook and not from the Waimea area there may be no potential for this kind of problem here I dont know but I would appreciate it if you had anything to comment on that. CRAWFORD:Commissioner Graham, we are a non-profit organization. Were a private club and we plan to have people, can only participate on the facility if they are members of the club. So it is entirely up to the club to run this. Were not involving any other government agencies. And you know were-, many of us have children who do this. I do it myself and what were trying to do is keep from having people who want to be legal being illegal and having people building these tracks in their backyards and pissing off neighbors. So thats what were trying to do. Going forward its hard for me to look in the crystal ball and say how well we will run it as a club. Were hoping to get involvement from motorcycle shops and ATV shops and after market people. And having them involved and give us some financial backing to be sure we do it properly. But you know things can happen its just how you pick your Board of Directors and your leaders to be sure that theyre committed to carrying it forward, which the people in this room are committed to doing that. GRAHAM:I know theres a lot of interest in North Hawai i. Waimea particularly and Kohala and all in these sort of things so Im very much in favor of what youre trying to do. I presume theres organizations up there also right now that are running events here and there on private property or whatever. Are you in contact with some of the North Hawai i people so that you can get a little bit of their input on how you folks plan to administer this site and all? EXHIBIT B 3