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NAEOLE-B EASON: Okay, my name is Emily Naeole-Beason. My address is 15 -2237 Kaohuwalu Street, Pahoa, HawaiÒi. And so my road is the road right after MakuÒu, Paradise Park. I live on the Department of Hawaiian Homestead. You know, I just wanted to say Joy and Michael is my constituents in Pahoa. And the four years IÓve served on the Council I really aloha my people; and I have to, thatÓs why IÓm here today. Even though I have to be at the Board of Ethics by 10 oÓclock I decided I needed to come and speak. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. I just wanted to say that I have voted on many issues for business sites in Hilo for zone changes, I definitely remember in four years. I just wanted to say again MakuÒu as you go down MakuÒu Drive in Paradise Park the first street on the left there is areas where big trucks is parking. So there is some zone changing for those big trucks to park over there. I know that happened and I know as I drive past the highway I see them on that street; and I know that they paved that street so then those big trucks could be there. And the reason why the big trucks has to be there was th they were on 28 Street down in Paradise Park, and I helped the man get those trucks out of that th 28 Street. Because it was parked next to this man that was having problems Î cause 4 oÓclock in the morning all these trucks were starting up and he was having horrors. And so I, you know, fought for him to have the trucks move out of there. And so I just want to say thereÓs a Mr. Lee on the bottom of MakuÒu, he has a bed and breakfast. I know that for a fact cause I went to visit his place. So I see different spots in our Paradise Park that have different zone changes that have happened. So, you know, to me IÓm thinking how some can, some no can. I have issues when that happens. I just wanted to say Joy used to have a shop in KeaÒau. IÓve known Joy for the last 10 or maybe 15 years. Then she moved her shop to Hilo, then later she moved back to KeaÒau, and then she moved back to her house in Paradise Park in MakuÒu. So I think years; and, you know, so we have a good relationship. I just wanted to say that IÓve been fighting to bring jobs to Puna for our people in the four years IÓve been on the Council. And one st of the things IÓve been fighting for was Longs Drugs to open on November 1; and it did. Maybe it screwed up my election but I really donÓt care. I need to bring home jobs to the people. And the people is the priority to me. And so I just want to say Highway 130 is a death trap; and it belongs to the State. So we the people of Puna got to deal with this death trap. Every day we get out of our homes and we going down the road. All of the people need to get on this road to go to the store, doctor, they need to go to school, they need to go to their jobs and elsewhere. I hope that you give a favor for Joy and Michael because itÓs really important that we do have something within our area. Even if a small little store, you donÓt have to come out to Paradise, you can go up the road. You know what? To have Malama Market in Pahoa is a great blessing. To have Longs Drugs right in Pahoa, itÓs a blessing. You know what? We no more too much blessings. We donÓt. ThatÓs why every little thing that came up is a blessing. Some people think itÓs a disaster because they come from America and their manaÒo is different. But us that live in Puna all our lives, some people 20 years, some 30, or whatever, even 5 years, we consider it as a blessing, because we have to come to Hilo to do all the business other than that. Yeah? And IÓve been sitting out of, I mean, IÓve been standing down KeaÒau for the last four months campaigning and 4 EXHIBIT A