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GREENWELL: The permit has been finaled. They are fully operational. MELROSE: The pictures are a little old, from the time we sent the application in. DOMINGO: I would think so because, you know, in my opinion it’s not totally completed because you have trenches in the back and those PVC pipes hanging and whatever, so. GREENWELL: No, no, they are completed. Everything has been filled in and the power’s hooked up. The yard is totally established in the front. MELROSE: Tommy, what was your workers’ first reaction when they showed up at the units the other day? GREENWELL: They came in about 11:00 at night. And we forgot to leave the keys, so I got a phone call. I ran up, and as I was showing them where everything was, two of them sat there and were talking, and one guy goes, “Yeah, looks like a hotel, yeah.” DOMINGO: Okay. You provide air-conditioning, too? GREENWELL: Pardon? DOMINGO: You provide air-conditioning? GREENWELL: Actually, there are two fans in each unit. WATANABE: Okay. Mr. Woodward, do you -? WOODWARD: I would like to ask, now, the three existing structures that you have, is that sufficient to support enough seasonal workers for the acreage that you have, the 35 acres? GREENWELL: If they only pick coffee on that farm -. No, probably not. MELROSE: Let me just go back. There are three units that were approved because we requested three units. What we ended up building, though, were units, one of those units is entirely dedicated to kitchen, bathroom, laundry, shower. So one of those units is kind of centrally used unit with a dining area. The other two house six a piece. So you can put -. Six, right? Six a piece? GREENWELL: Yeah, you can put twelve employees in that structure. WOODWARD: All right. Well, how many does it take to pick your 35 acres? GREENWELL: Well, I mean, probably you could get away with twelve fast, good pickers, yes. They would be continually working that farm, which, yeah. EXHIBIT B 9