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And, indeed,Uncle Bill Paris is right, IÓve interviewed kupuna, many of whom are now dead who are native, elder, kamaainas, speakers, native Hawaiian speakers of the land; and uniformly those that are of UncleÓs age and generation all refer to the land by its ahupuaa name. But I might also reference that how often was the used, which is the proper name of the bay fronting the large Kukio? It doesnÓt mean that we throw it away but that we use it and incorporate, we bring it into our recollection of the history that belongs on this land. Too many places, and I hundred and thousand percent support kupunaÓs manao about place names or people names contrived names, whether itÓs to Mauna Kea or wherever else. These names that usurp the traditional and storied place names of the land are critical to our understanding of this landscape and who we are as a people, as an island people now. So thatÓs my one comment, too, is that let us not hasten to throw away a name that actually has in the written record kua as the ocean fronting Maniniowali, it has actually an older presence in the written history of these islands than not. It is actually older in writing than the tradition that Tutu Kihei wrote about Maniniowali, Kukio and the associated families of the land. So I appreciate your patience just so we donÓt throw anything away by mistake. Aloha. SPRINGER:Aloha. Ai Mahalo no. Are there any questions or comments for the testifier? Thank you, Mr. Maley. Is there anyone else? If we can invite the ApplicantÓs representatives to come back to the table for discussion with us. Having heard the comments and some questions that came you have any response to those? TAGUCHI:Just a couple of things. In regards to Mr. HartmanÓs concerns about programmatic access, we will try within our interpretive programs of signage to include as much disabled access that we can. You know, what he said is correct, this is brand new, you know; we donÓt have to fix stuff, so we should just do it correctly. And, you know, itÓll save us a lot of money if we do it correctly the first time. Regarding park hours and access, and those kinds of things, we will try to keep parks open as much as we possibly can to the extent the budgets and the manpower will allow us. It would be great if you can keep parks open, have security around so that it can be opened 24 hours; but thatÓs not a reality. I think the County locks up most of their parks. At night they hire security. We havenÓt even had the luxury of having that kind of monies to lock up our parks. These are going to be administrative kinds of things that we would need to deal with. We are hoping that the economy gets better and more monies come into the coffers. And while, rightfully so, when you are in lean economic times, you need to take care of those things that affect public health and safety; but, you know, the parks are and some of the other natural resources of our State, gets impacted because we havenÓt sufficient funds to manage them properly. I have 8 vacancies now out of a staff of 37; and it is very difficult to run the 14 parks that we have on the Big Island. But we will, we are hoping that the better economic times 19