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will allow for more monies to be allocated to us. And, if that is the case, we will endeavor to keep parks open as much as we can, develop as many parking spaces as we possibly can, develop as many legal campsites as we possibly can. But, you know, the thought that government is going to do everything all the time, those days are gone. Government needs to work with private individuals, they have a need to work with non- profit groups like the Hui Laulima thatÓs being worked on now, and other kinds of groups. I would welcome working with school kids, you know. To me, the younger the better. If they take ownership on the parks, if they learn from the earliest age possible, you know, the importance of taking care of it, when they become adults theyÓre not going to be the guys who on a weekly basis break the toilets in our restrooms, crack and throw out our basins, stuff up our toilets, and those kinds of things. But, you know, we will do administratively as best as we can. We have tried to put gates in areas. The gate that Mahaiula now has a curve to it because it gets rammed on by people. The chains that we have with locks on them, people have been using, I mean, they bring down crazy glue or super glue to the park to put it into the key mechanism in our padlocks. They glue the hasps on so weÓve got to cut our locks for us to get access to maintain our sites. One of our enforcement officers in the Kona area took it upon himself to go down to Kua Bay to fix the big gate as you go down. He did it, his day off was a Wednesday or Thursday, he did it in the middle of week. By the weekend, someone had taken down a torch and had cut off all the tongue into it, the bell housing that holds the lock; and, you know, it was less than a weekend, it lasted. We have rockwalls that they loosened and not concreted in at Mahaiula. We have instances where some individual takes down equipment, heavy equipment, to cut a breach through o not somebody going out and moving a few rocks. This is guys goi all these rocks, moving them around so they can go in. I donÓt know what some of the solutions are. Having improvement hopefully the manpower to take care of them is going to provide access to that area to a lot of people who canÓt there right now. WeÓre going to try as best as we can to preserve that resource. I think Hannah knows it and Chris knows because youÓve been to our task force meetings, but it took a long time to get the routes going, because it is the DivisionÓs mission to save all of the historic sites. And so that route that goes down to the beach avoids any historic site. And so some of the placements may look a little odd but thatÓs because theyÓre clear of something of value. The only other thing on Mr. CamaraÓs comment about taking the $2.5 million and putting it into other portions of the Kekaha Kai State Park, the way the land exchange deed went about, the improvements are at a specific area and it is the Kua Bay section of Kekaha Kai. SPRINGER:Mr. Leonard? LEONARD:Just to comment on a few other comments that were made. Regarding the location of the utility corridor, thatÓs a function of where the utilities, actually the lowest point or the closest point from the development, and to bring it down 20