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continue to try to encourage or possibly find assistance in some way to help these <br />owners? It looks funny when you see something really nice with the modern colors and <br />all the little detailing and then something else that looks really seedy right next door. So I <br />was wondering, that was my first question. And I’ll let you answer that first before I go <br />on. <br />GRAHAM: Ms. Alexandra, go ahead. <br />ALEXANDRA: Okay. Yes, that is definitely within the plan. And the Hilo <br />Downtown Improvement Association is one of our Lead Solution Partners who are <br />actively seeking the property owners for some of the more rundown building in <br />Downtown Hilo and trying to sort out what their plans are for those buildings. So <br />they’ve been our leader in that respect. But, yes, it is in the plan and we understand the <br />importance of it. <br />GRAHAM: Thank you. <br />SIRACUSA: And my second is that I did notice that the planters had been <br />painted and they had been replanted, and in some cases are not even being used as ash <br />trays and garbage cans, which is amazing to me. And I sure would like to know how you <br />accomplished that trick, because I’m struggling with it in Pahoa. And I was wondering if <br />there were any plans to continue along those lines in terms of plantings and beautification <br />of, you know, using natural materials, like plants to beautify the streets, whatever, and <br />medians. I notice there are a lot of places where there are medians where it would be <br />really nice to have some kind of vegetation. Is that in the plan? <br />GRAHAM: Mr. Nash, go ahead. <br />NASH: Yes, that is in the plan. We have been working with the <br />Downtown Improvement Association’s beautification committee which has been at work <br />with those planters and getting the store owners or store, the people who are renting the <br />stores or, you know, the business owners to keep that up, to keep up the maintenance of <br />that. And they themselves, the beautification committee, have been going out and <br />painting the planters. <br />As far as the medians are concerned, we are looking into initiating a project, the VKs <br />(VisionKeepers) themselves, into doing a pocket park which might end up instead of <br />being really a park be a landscaping, a median or an island somewhere that, you know, <br />that could use some landscaping to beautify Downtown Hilo. And, again, we would <br />work with various community groups, no doubt the Beautification Committee too on that. <br />GRAHAM: Thank you. <br />ALEXANDRA: If I could just -? <br />GRAHAM: Go ahead. <br /> EXHIBIT A <br />8 <br /> <br />