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it met the aggregate of 50 people, they would end up bearing the whole burden. And yet, they might not be at the location where you want to put the siren up, and they may not have control over where you want to put the siren; because if the siren is going to be maintained and serviced by, typically it’s the County through the Police Department, or because it’s actually a State siren system, in theory it’s supposed be the State of Hawai‘i, but typically we end up helping out, and it’s got to be in a place where we can have access to it. And so we have a preference on where it’s supposed to be. And so we just think that it shouldn’t be triggered through plan approval, that there needs to be a different process, and that we should also be looking at whether if you’re going to shift the burden of putting this on to the private sector, that this isn’t the right place to do it, and that perhaps if you are going to do this, it should be through some type of an assessment that is spread out over the other property owners as opposed to just being the guy that happens to walk in the door and he ends up bearing the entire burden. And there are other, you know, rezoning applications that are coming through and, you know, although this was drafted I think to address Waikoloa, this is an island-wide issue, and the placement of the sirens really needs to be pursuant to some type of a plan, because what you want is a system where we are picking where is the most optimal place in terms of the population, in terms of the radius of the, you know, in terms of how far you can hear that siren. And so we need to really have a plan in terms of where they are going to be in relationship to each other, otherwise you are going to have some that are too close or some that are just a little bit too far apart. And so we just think there needs to be a better plan. And the State is planning to come in and do some; they are developing a master plan. HOUSEL: Commissioner Hickcox. HICKCOX: I think the owners, or the burden of responsibility in this area rests with the State as far as coming up with a master plan. It would not directly affect the County in any way which they perform other than in maintenance. I think the issue is that if we deny this, we should deny it with some kind of justification in stating to them that we feel that this responsibility, as far as coming up with a plan, master plan, placement, etc. be with the State, and that legislatively they address this as oppose to trying to address it at our level. HOUSEL: Commissioner -. NELSON: So the motion would be to deny the recommendation with the additional comment? HOUSEL: Well, we don’t have a motion yet. We are still -. NELSON: No, no, I’m just asking a question on how to frame it. HOUSEL: Okay. I guess I’d like to ask you a question for information. How is the location of tsunami sirens currently determined? HICKCOX: Population. HOUSEL: Who does that? Is that the State, the County? HICKCOX: State. Civil Defense does with the State. HOUSEL: Civil Defense? Okay. 3 EXHIBIT F