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OGATA: Just curious - if, I don’t know if the whole crowd in here is going to be speaking out against this site - what’s your back-up site? OLIVEIRA: Honestly, we don’t have a back-up site. A lot of the money and investment is made in the design for this site. But I think what we could consider is in the design of the facility to make it more palatable or to address the safety concerns that the community may have. We’d like to obviously stay on the same site as much as possible, but address those safety and health concerns that they may have. OGATA: Okay. WOODWARD: Anything further? Okay, all right, gentlemen, you can have a seat; and we’ll call the people from the public who have signed up to testify. I have Robert Okuda, could you come up and have a seat at the table. We have Tiffanie Wong Okuda, I guess it’s Gerdine Markus or Jerdine Markus, and David Martins. We’ve got room up here for everybody. We’ve got four chairs. Let’s see who are we missing, Martins. Okay, is there a Gerdine Markus? Oh, there you are. All right. Okay, first I’d like to swear you in. If you’ll raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: Yes. I do. WOODWARD: Very good. Okay, we’ve gotten quite a bit of written testimony already that has been submitted. We’d like to ask you to limit your testimony to five minutes; and if you’ve supplied a large volume of written testimony please just summarize that rather than read it. We do have copies of all that information. So that being said, as I say we’d like to limit the testimony to five minutes. And if you get close to that point, we will gently remind you to please summarize your testimony. So Robert Okuda, you were signed up first. If you’d speak in the microphone. R. OKUDA: I’ll let my daughter-in-law go first. WOODWARD: Okay. Your daughter-in-law is Tiffanie? WANG OKUDA: Tiffanie. WOODWARD: Okay, that’s fine. If you’ll just give us your name and address, and then you may begin. WANG OKUDA: Okay, I’m Tiffanie Wang Okuda and I live in 817 Kukuau Street, which is within 500 feet to the proposed project. I’m a mother of a five-year old child and I’m also a dentist in this community, so I’m very, very concerned with health effects. I already have a lot of written materials about basically how the impact will be. So there’s long-term health effects of the microwave tower. But I know the Fire Chief did come to our house. I sent him I think the day after these materials. I haven’t heard from him so -. But it basically, there is a lot of material that are available on the internet for people to see. But, you know, it has link to childhood leukemia, breast cancer, autism, neurological problems, which I don’t feel Hilo as a 8 EXHIBIT A