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said he almost pulled out and got hit by a van. I found out there was an accident where the van actually crashed and flipped off its wheels. And I asked the applicant about that and he said no one was hurt, not a drop was spilled. But the reasoning for the action was to avoid potholes. And in visiting that site, you’d have to be going fairly fast to avoid a pot hole and flip off your tires. Health and safety issues for kids in the program and the community are major concerns to me, whether they are Hawaii kids or not Hawaii kids. Kids are kids, whether they are from here or not. And issues that deal with water, sewer, fire or roads are of concern to me. And I don’t know that we’ve addressed it. I haven’t had the time to look into these areas to know whether they’re addressed satisfactorily. I know a neighbor’s renter’s line was tapped in without permission. After speaking with the applicants there are very little local hires, which are important to me if we’re an outside business coming in, as in any business that I look at coming into this county, the island of Hawaii. One of the things I will push for whether it’s in Kau or not is that we look at local hires first. All student participation as far as I know are from out of State, and that bothers me a little bit. In fact, I’m questioning why we’re not having our own kids in there. We have the same kids with problems; and there was a reason given, and to some satisfaction. But I will say, I would tend to disagree that the kids have to go out of State to experience what they might have to offer. There was very minimal participation in the number of years that they’ve existed in the community. In fact, in my observation it has been more of a stay away. That bothers me. Property very uninviting. I went to go and see the property. And it’s just kind of a dirt road with guinea grass kind of growing over with a big “no trespassing” sign on there. And I did address it with the applicant; and they did suggest their reasons for being the way it is, and it had some merit. But, still, any business, like I said, that we invite, especially if we’re going to give them a special permit, I want to make sure that they’re going to interface with our community and be inviting, rather than being more of a stand-alone type of business. One community member did witness a student out in the rain and asked if they needed help. And the student refused and stated they were not allowed to accept help. And I expressed this to the applicant again, and they do have a program of passage or something like that which I don’t really understand myself. But, anyway, in conclusion: Willfully building without permits and tapping into neighbor’s waterline without permission reflects to me a very unwelcome attitude. Secondly, prematurely giving the permit to this organization before the licensing is approved I think could cause some problems down the line. If they’re not approved and we’ve given them permission to go ahead, I’m not sure what the consequence is going to be. 14 EXHIBIT B