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MCKINNEY:I do. <br />KAISER:I do. <br />GALDONES:Could you please state your name, your residence address and <br />speak into the microphone so we can get you recorded, please, sir. <br />MCKINNEY:My name is Mike McKinney. I€m the president/co-owner of <br />Pacific Quest; and my address is 96-1168 Kamani Street in Pahala. <br />KAISER:My name is Chris Kaiser and I live at 95-1120 in Naalehu, Puahala <br />Place in Naalehu. <br />GALDONES:Okay.Gentlemen,haveyoufolksreceivedacopyofthe <br />Background Report and the Recommendation? <br />MCKINNEY:Yes, we do have a copy of the Recommendation, yes. <br />GALDONES:Do you have any comments on those documents? <br />MCKINNEY:No. <br />GALDONES:Commissioners, any questions of the Applicants? Commissioner <br />Siracusa? <br />SIRACUSA:Yes. I€d like if you would both give us a brief rundown on your <br />professional credentials to run a facility like this and, also, then, your, maybe your <br />comments regarding Commissioner Alameda€s notation of the discrepancy in definitions <br />here. <br />MCKINNEY:Sure, sure. Well, Chris and I have both, and I€ll let him speak for <br />himself but we€ve been in this industry for six or seven years on the mainland and <br />worked for a number of different programs, whether residential treatment centers or <br />where people call wilderness programs, worked as mentors, in a lot of different <br />capacities. I€ve worked in the field, quite a bit, I€ve also worked in management as well. <br />I think one of the reasons why we want to be licensed by the Department of Health is that <br />we want to have a lot of people on our staff that have amazing credentials, and we want <br />to be regulated. <br />The State of Hawaii doesn€t really have anything in between. And where I look at the <br />Department of Health and where it€s, when they talk about Special Treatment Facilities, I <br />don€t look at the definition as a student profile. This is the type of, I look at it as how are <br />we regulated, how do we have checks and balances, how do we hold these programs <br />accountable? Because I€ve been in this industry for a long time and I€ve seen bad <br />programs. A lot of them try and fly under the radar. A lot of them will get a house and <br />6 <br /> <br />