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MELROSE: Let me ask, let Tommy address that. GREENWELL: Over 20 hours in one calendar week you become a fulltime employee, or it’s a part-time but actually it’s a fulltime employee and you are governed by the laws, which include health insurance. DOMINGO: So then you need to provide health insurance for them. GREENWELL: For any hourly-paid person over 20 hours, yes. DOMINGO: I see. Okay, thank you. WATANABE: Ms. Bowman, did you have something? BOWMAN: First, I want to commend you for this. I think it’s a very innovative proposal. I have lots of Central American and Mexican friends, and I have seen what they’ve had to live in, not only construction workers. And I think what we need to realize is that they are going to come regardless of if this is there or not. And I think, you know, to mitigate some of the traffic, some of the already short housing that’s available. And also I like your rules because we have some houses near us in some subdivisions with, like, 12 guys in there, they’ll drink until 3:00 in the morning. So I really hope that those rules will, you know, keep cause I know they work hard. Just a couple of things. I noticed that there is one letter of support. I think – I don’t see any others – and I think if you are in partnership with other growers, that would help to show that they are in support. So that’s just a comment. The other thing -. MELROSE: I think there are four, Lani. There are four. BOWMAN: Maybe I didn’t see them. GREENWELL: I forgot to ask them until it was pretty late. BOWMAN: Okay, I’ve got, one -. Okay, sorry, I just have the one. Okay, thank you. The other thing, just to clarify, you can house up to ten per unit. Well, that’s what it says in your Housing Agreement; it says, “…. three (3) modified” – this is on Page 2 of your Farm Employee Housing Agreement, Paragraph 3 – “…. three (3) modified trailers to provide a combination kitchen/dining area, laundry, two shower/restrooms and sleeping/living spaces for up to 20 beds total ….” I’m just reading this from your Agreement. MELROSE: You know, when we made our original application, I think we were requesting, I don’t know, it was twelve or 15, when we made the application for this, and the Planning Department actually gave us additional units. And I think probably on the basis of – and Chris could explain this – but I think that the basis really was that perhaps there would be some hangers on wives or children or some other kind of folks that would add to the worker count. But we only applied for three units. And the fourth unit, which was actually bought and EXHIBIT B 14