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were hoping to form a subcommittee to make sure that they can be reviewed adequately and see
<br />if this is a feasible process.
<br />SIRACUSA:Well, Im glad to hear that you have identified that as a need in order to
<br />move forward with your plan and figured out how youre going to do that. Thank you.
<br />MOON:Yeah, were trying to look at the constraints, obviously, to some of these;
<br />but we had to stop short of actually, you know, determining whether it was feasible or not. We
<br />really just, this is again a guide that the community has these dreams and visions; and if its
<br />possible lets do them. But the lead solution partners are going to be the ones to help us figure
<br />that out, you know, if it is feasible to do those things.
<br />SIRACUSA:Yeah, thank you, Alice.
<br />GALDONES:Arethereanyfurtherquestions?CommissionerIwashita.
<br />IWASHITA:Yeah,Ifullysupporttheprocess.ButIwanttoencourageanythingthat
<br />you can do to keep the community involved and keep the people involved. And I have a concern
<br />actually when you talk about lead solution partners, right, and then start deferring, I dont know
<br />if thats the correct word, but start deferring implementation of your plan to lead solution
<br />partners. Because now youre starting to go back, to me thats going backwards. And that you
<br />need to keep the community effort and the interest and empower that so that it gets done. You
<br />know, if you need to widen sidewalks to accommodate, you know, putting tables out, you need
<br />the community to keep pressing on getting that done. If you need, you know, to make changes
<br />so that this free bus system works better in Downtown Hilo, then the community needs, I mean,
<br />you need to do that. If you leave it up to Tom Rounds, and Tom Rounds is a great guy; you
<br />know he has a lot of good ideas, hes a real busy but, you know, I mean, to me this is your plan.
<br />If you step away from it and said okay, here, take care of it for us, then youve stepped away
<br />from it. So, you know, thats just my observation.
<br />GAGORIK:Thank you. And we will need you to continue to remind us so that, as
<br />weve had to remind ourselves during this process, that who is the greater community that this
<br />plan is for and how can we make sure we capture all of those ideas. And we had to constantly
<br />check ourselves in processing the information. I mean its easy to just say, okay, put that aside
<br />and put this aside. But we had to bring all of the ideas together and make sure we were able to
<br />summarize and capture what the community wanted.
<br />IWASHITA:My suggestion is that, you know, you have put a lot of effort and come out
<br />with a lot of good ideas, and to make them work you need to keep at it, basically. And that I
<br />really see the community -. I mean, youve got to be selfish about this in a way, right? The
<br />community, its your community, its your shops, its your apartments, its your houses, you
<br />know, and its your neighborhood. And if you wanted this to happen, to make it better, right, to
<br />have more people there, to have a diverse economic community thats striving, then you need to
<br />do it. I mean, and thats, Im here to say I would support an effort to do that, any proposals to
<br />change laws, you know, zoning laws, design laws as far as how buildings are going to be built
<br />and what they need to look like, you know, to maintain the architectural integrity of old
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