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satisfied. When you say, I guess there seems to be a little conflict in terms of what you testified to about limiting people coming to the kennel to two customers a day -. MAEDA: That’s what I – I didn’t think there would be more people than that. I don’t know, I don’t know yet because I’m not running the business. So I just thought -. IWASHITA: Okay. But that’s what’s your best estimate. And then your testimony about having the quarantine kennel and then a lot, you know, and encouraging, part of it is to encourage the owners being able to have a good amount of contact with their dog during the 120-day period. So those two things seems to me in conflict in terms of, you know, allowing those five owners to come as much as possible and then try to limit it to two a day. MAEDA: Yeah, well, I don’t know if I would have five dogs in the quarantine kennel at one time; and I know that most people who, well for myself, when I had a dog here in quarantine at the kennel here on the Big Island because I worked I was only able to go maybe once or twice a week, or three times a week. And what I was actually thinking in regards to the quarantine was being able to myself provide more stimulation and interaction and training with the puppies, because I saw that as something that was lacking in the quarantine facilities that I had seen. So that was my, in regards to the quarantine part and the people coming. I don’t expect, although maybe some people may be interested in coming every day, I don’t expect that people would be able to come every day to visit their dogs in the quarantine kennel. But I did want to provide more stimulation and interaction than just the regular quarantine. IWASHITA: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. WOODWARD: Commissioner Bowman, we do have two people signed up to testify but -. BOWMAN: Okay, just real quick. I did read through the letters. And what kind of impressed me, or however you say this, is that the clientele that you’re bringing in versus the clientele, I guess, the one that had his house burned or their house burned, that the kind of clientele that’s coming through are those who care about their animals and are probably, you know, working people, etc. So I think that’s a good point. And you might probably have more than two people a day, especially in the summertime or vacation time. MAEDA: Yeah, there may be days, but then there may be also days that no one would come. BOWMAN: Okay, thank you. WOODWARD: Anything else before we, Commissioner Alameda. ALAMEDA: I’d just like to make a motion. EXHIBIT A 9