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WILLE: Yes, I do. <br />WATANABE: Thank you. Would you, name and address, please, for the record. <br />WILLE: Yeah. Margaret Wille. Waimea. 65-1316 Lihipali Road, Kamuela, <br />Waimea. I’m on the Steering Committee, and I really just want to emphasize a few points. <br />And one is just that this document is really one step in a process; the next step would be the <br />action committees and really tying to work on implementing this Plan. In South Kohala, and I <br />guess North Kohala, we were really under a really tight time constraint, and it was, sort of didn’t <br />get us far, it isn’t, in terms of implementation plans we didn’t progress as far as, say, in Kona or <br />Puna. And so the action committee is particularly important for our areas. We sort of set up a <br />platform for the district concerns and for the different local area concerns. So I want to just <br />stress that you all are an important part of that next process and how to empower and utilize <br />these action committees to really gather more information and make decision making more <br />participatory process and more enlightened decisions. <br />I think even just taking an example of this morning when you were doing the Greenwell case, <br />when I read that, I really didn’t, just reading what you had for the public, I wouldn’t have known <br />that that was really dealing with more of an imported labor process of housing just from, you <br />know, what you had that I could have read. I happen to be rally knowledgeable in that area; I <br />probably would have testified on that. And I think the only thing really there would be, I thought <br />it could, where you have projects like that, truly again stress the accountability and doing <br />periodic reports. I think when there is new and uncertainty, the more information and feedback <br />you can have, that’s good. <br />So I just want to stress to you all to be supportive of the action committees and maybe work or <br />meet with them; and how can they help you in your job and you help to really help them work on <br />their local areas and try to, and at the same time also that we now, like these four different <br />Community Plans, or presumably we will, support in trying to get some kind of regional <br />understanding. I’ve read through the others, and just looking at similar themes, and so it’s really <br />you all that sort of come together and sort of see them all and how can, so I’m asking for your <br />help. And I think that now there’s so much energy right now, the sooner before it sort of <br />dissipates and these get lost on the shelf, look to for your help. <br />Lastly, I just want to mention something Jojo testified earlier, and she brought up a number of <br />concerns and things that she felt were not there. Some of those were like error; she pointed out <br />that are in the map where the lighthouse is, and I think maybe Bruce Tsuchida, there were a few <br />other errors that he’s found. Maybe those could be addressed at the County Council because <br />they’re non-substantive. And others are sort of the to-do list, which is again do the action <br />committees and certainly Kawaihae in our area is critical with the Superferry coming in that we <br />look at those issues as soon as possible. <br />So I hope you’ll not just vote but really get there and, like, let’s move forward and do something <br />and really work together. And as this island faces a lot of new problems from agriculture and <br />traffic and everything, how can we all work together towards the future? Thank you. <br />EXHIBIT D <br />2 <br /> <br />