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I would love to be able to not have the parks closed at night. I would love to be able to have people come and go. But until we get the re-training done, thatÓs probably not something we can do. We have that, as Janice said, we had a lot of discussions on Wednesdays and some of us feel that itÓs, that everybody deserves a day off and the parks ought to have a day off; and thatÓs what the Wednesdays are all about. If itÓs pedestrian access, thatÓs probably something that they can handle. But itÓs a time for Parks to clean the park and for a way for the Parks not to be overwhelmed by people. With Mahaiula, the road is not improved. And on a three-day weekend, there are 300 cars that find their way down the road into Mahaiula. ThatÓs probably a little over a thousand people with three people per car. There arenÓt restaurant facilities, there arenÓt amenities. So thereÓs a great need for beach park access, to expand the beach park areas. Also, we really need to re-train our local people to take care of our beach parks. Thank you very much for this consideration for this talk. Thank you. SPRINGER:Thank you. Commissioners, questions or comments for Ms. Herkes? Mr. Camara? CAMARA:Is this going to work? Magic. Thanks for the mike stand. IÓm Bobby Camara. My address is P.O. Box 485, Volcano 96785. I am Honokaa and first visited Maniniowali in 1972 before the opening or even existence of the Queen Kaahumanu Highway. Since then I have visited Maniniowali countless times, I donÓt know many times. I have worked on an archaeological survey project there in 1991 for three months with Bishop Museum. I have essentially ma learn as much as I can about the physical attributes of the lands of Maniniowali and feel very qualified to speak about the things that IÓm about to talk about. I appreciate all of you taking the time to be here all day. I know itÓs your job but, still, there are those of us of the public that appreciate your attention to all of these details. IÓll try and keep things brief. I did prepare and delivered today a small packet of information for you. I donÓt know if you received it or not. I will not be reading all of that verbatim, I would take a little bit too long. But I believe it contains information pertinent to this SMA application and can be used, if nothing else, for background for the future. One, just summarizing very, very briefly, I very much appreciated Commissioner KubotaÓs comments earlier about the need for planning and consistency and vision. IÓm sure others on the Commission share that view. Before I say anything specific about Maniniowali, IÓd like to make a comment in that vein. The $2- or $2-1/2 million being spent on the development at Maniniowali, I feel, would be much better spent divided up amongst other facilities i I know thatÓs not going to happen because the planning process is already too far 14