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WOODWARD: Okay. Begin your testimony, please. Speak into the microphone and give us your name and address, and then you may begin. LIM: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Commission. I’m Steven Lim from Carlsmith. I’m at 121 Waianuenue Avenue in Hilo. Seated to my right are Rachael and Ahmad Mohammadi, the principals of E. Commerce Corporation and the applicants in this action. Thank you for allowing us to present the applicants’ statements. They’re going to be out th of the country at the next meeting of the Planning Commission on November 24 I believe it is. And both the Planning Director and the applicants want to conclude this matter while Mr. Yuen is still in office; and so I think it’s going to be necessary to take up the revised conditions that we’re working with Mr. Yuen on and get that to you before the next meeting for your consideration. And since my clients couldn’t be here then we wanted to impose upon you today and make our presentation ahead of time on that meeting. So I’ll have Ahmad lead off. Basically what we’ve had is approximately five years of permitting. We’ve gone through numerous permit hearings at the state and the county level, and this is the very last permit that we need to get down to resolve the issue. I’ll let Ahmad go through some of the history on what they’ve been doing as a family in North Kohala, and then we’ll have Rachael finish up with the presentation. Thank you. WOODWARD: If there are no objections, maybe it would be best just to have them give their presentation; and we’ll open up questions for all of them. So give us your name and address and then you may begin. A. MOHAMMADI: Aloha, my name is Ahmad Mohammadi. We live in Hawi, PO Box 219, Hawi, HI 96719. Rachael and I have lived in Hawi for about then years. We love Kohala. We moved there and we are part of the community. We have a lot of aunties and uncles that have integrated us as part of their family. We are planning to live there forever and ever. It’s a wonderful place, as you know Lani you’ve lived there for a long time. I work with Hewlett- Packard, for HP, I run the sales operation for the State of Hawaii. My heart is in education. I believe in supporting the education initiative in Hawaii. And Hewlett-Packard has something that’s called philanthropy funds; and they’ve given me the opportunity to pick up eight to ten schools in the State of Hawaii that we can help with these students to go to one-to-one computing. And I’m planning to support primarily at least for half of those number of the schools in Kohala specifically and surrounding to provide the kids laptops so they can have technology integration. The reason I bring it to your attention is because I want you to know that I love Hawaii, we are a part of the community, and we’re constantly trying to add value where we can. And my wife will share with what we’re doing, what we have done on the project, where we are and what our plans are. Our family is glad to be here. We have ohana there that unfortunately due to a comedy of errors we run into this violation situation. And Mr. Yuen and his staff have been gracious enough to work with us, to educate us, and bring us along to where we can enhance the public access environment as well as put closure to this violation. R. MOHAMMADI: My name is Rachael Mohammadi, also 55-194 Uli Road. And I’m just thankful that I’m able to be here on it to present our view of things. Last time we didn’t have a lot to say; but just so you guys can see our face and get to know who we are and feel comfortable with us -. I guess last time you guys heard a testimony from someone that didn’t make us look so good. Hopefully we can recuperate from that. And what we have done is primarily we’ve EXHIBIT C 3