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HAALILIO:Oh thank you. I feel a little bit mixed emotionally right now because I had met Mr. Ibbetson prior to the sale of the property by the propertys predecessor, Hawaii Conference Foundation UCC, United Church of Christ. I also serve as the Pastor for Pukaana Congregational Church, which is a sister church to the Hoikeana Church, thats right across of the Mamalahoa Highway from the cemetery that were speaking about. I did not know the initial conditions of the sale of the property or the passing over of the property to the church for a particular use until such time as Dean Kaiawe had shared the detail through his great- grandmothers will with us. My immediate concern is that my husbands immediate family including my mother and father-in-law and their siblings and parents, quite a bit of my in-laws relatives are buried there and I prefer to call it my family. And our major concern and I just thank you for the public hearing. Everybody acknowledges your body, the commission. Everybody acknowledges those who are making the appeals to you. But I acknowledge my public which is my in-laws that was willing to stay from 9:00 this morning till now to be able to havevoiceeventhroughme.Onthewholethefamilyspeaksagainstthebedandbreakfast.On a personal note I do see this as a private business. You dont open up a bed and breakfast just to feed the stranger walking by its for the sake of income Im certain, for profit. I am not comfortable with that because it does not sit right with the original conditions of the use or the giving of the property. The church at Pukaana where I serve as Pastor became somewhat of the steward to that cemetery, that property all through the years, the 50s, the 60s, 70s, 80s we were still cleaning as often as we could. So even as a child I still remember going there to clean. After the congregation diminished my immediate, my in-laws kept maintaining the cemetery. As a Hawaiian I feel that we need to honor the original intent of the use of the property. Granted there is a dwelling there right now and its a beautiful dwelling but it should not change the fact that the property was still given over for the sake of having a cemetery. I was not aware of another parcel, a burial plot, makai side of the dwelling thats there right now. And it is my concern because the Kaiawe family descendants are down there. Mine are up in A, which is closer to the highway. The driveway on the left side is the one that used to be a trail and then went into a jeep easement and then after awhile someone had concreted partial of that stretch. Yeah, thats the one at the left. The A parcel mauka side of that I dont know whose property parallels that, right, and then the highway is right mauka side of that. We have always used the easement on the Kailua side, which is the one on the left. I am aware that Daniel has had another easement into his property pretty much where his name is down to the house. From Mamalahoa Highway down through that portion, yeah. And I dont know about how correct that easement is but this is the one that we used to use. He did mention some time back that he was going to anticipate running possibly a driveway from the highway for the one thats use and run it alongside the boundary of the cemetery the mauka side, yeah, and down to his dwelling. The layout right now is not too hunky-dory but anyways. I did like to speak up on behalf of myself and my family present and not present that we would not be in favor of having any more of a flow of people, nor traffic, nor parking now there. Granted we dont have the right to tell anyone how to use their own private dwelling. But we would not be in favor of the additional, our family comes in and theyre not aware that, from outer islands, and many of them are not aware that the cemetery is not a public cemetery, it sits on a private parcel that has been sold and is resided upon. So when they did come over they were a little bit awkward, the situations that we resolved as soon as I was able to, as far as the maintenance and use and access to the cemetery. My concern is that nothing would interfere whatsoever with my familys burial plots. And also EXHIBIT B 7