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OGATA: I heard that you did a lot of door to door kind of, I guess you canvassed the surrounding community. Other than that, have you done any community planning meetings or anything to help with the design of this complex? OLIVEIRA: No actual meetings; and I guess I look at this as maybe one of those forums or opportunities. The door to door was based on, we wanted to make sure that everybody received the letter of notification that this project was coming up for consideration and approval; and the other reason was to go door to door and basically solicit input, concerns, and answer any questions. So like I say I’m open and prepared to addressing more of the public’s concerns and making sure we do put them at ease as well as, like I say, be good neighbors in our project. WOODWARD: Very good. Well, I complement you on your efforts. And, sir, if you would like to submit testimony, you’ve written your name down -? MARTINS: Yes. WOODWARD: Okay, very good. Any further questions for the applicant? Commissioner Kern. KERN: Yes, good morning, Chief. OLIVEIRA: Morning. KERN: You had mentioned the three items that you were going to go over possibly. The first one was something to do with historic, could you bring that up please. BRILHANTE: The historical perspective was kind of intertwined with the necessity and the reason for why the Department needs the station, the administration building, not the station but the fire administration building and the dispatch center. And I think as far as the historical perspective, I’m not sure if all the members are aware of this but originally the fire administration building was located immediately behind central fire station; and when the Army Corps of Engineers came in and did the expansion to the flood control channel running behind the fire station, that caused the need for the fire administration building at that time to be taken down and removed. Since that time the fire administration has been a nomadic clan so to speak. They moved to the Kaiko’o Mall location, and due to heavy rains and flooding had to move to another location; and now they’re currently housed, sharing a facility with Environmental Management up at the Puainako Town Center. And that’s just the administrative aspect of the Department. The Emergency Medical Service Division is still located at central fire station, dispatch is still located at central fire station. And that was the historical perspective that I wanted the Commissioners to be notified of. KERN: Thank you very much. WOODWARD: Any further questions for the applicant? Commissioner Ogata. 7 EXHIBIT A