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written testimony from myself that they’ve met this. I would be sort of like the witness that, you
<br />know, on their behalf, that they’ve met these things. If you feel you need to do that I’m, hey, I’m
<br />all good, you know. The main thing is that, what I thought is I’m out there, I’m making the
<br />connections, I’m watching this thing, it is in my backyard, I’m only couple of miles away. I
<br />would love to work with these people. Because I think, like I said before, this has a great
<br />potential for some really good things to happen. It’s just, I don’t think it just was approached in
<br />the right manner.
<br />WOODWARD: All right, thank you. Let me just interject one thing, and I’ve spoken with
<br />our Corporation Counsel. Once we get through with the questions for the witnesses and then
<br />give the applicant a chance to respond, we’re going to need to go into executive session briefly.
<br />Because there are a number of legal issues about implications of our vote and what our options
<br />are that we need to discuss in executive session. So rather than bring up all the permutations and
<br />combinations at this point, I would suggest that we leave that, cause we’re going to go into
<br />executive session once we get through with this testimony.
<br />Are there any further questions for Councilman Enriques? Okay, seeing none, thank you,
<br />gentlemen. You may be seated. And we’ll give the applicant a chance to respond since
<br />Commissioner Doming specifically requested information about your interaction with
<br />Councilman Enriques and what your feelings were.
<br />ZELKO: Yes, okay.
<br />WOODWARD: Okay, so you have had a chance to read -?
<br />CHU: I haven’t read it, I haven’t received, that’s a -.
<br />WOODWARD: Okay, would you like a few minutes?
<br />CHU: Well, yeah, you know, it is not a contested case. It’s funny, it seems like it
<br />is a contested case, but it’s not. And one of the problems we have, I have with that is that we’re
<br />unable to really respond or prepare. It’s you come here and you take your, you know, the stones
<br />are thrown and here we are. In a contested case it’s a little different. There’s time to prepare and
<br />vice versa. But as -. We thank the public for their testimony. Everybody is entitled to their
<br />opinion. Some people will never be happy and we, you know, there’s nothing we can do. But
<br />we hope, the applicant hopes to create a successful program that will benefit not only our
<br />community but help enhance the ability of children to get back into the society. So that’s really
<br />the goal, if we look at the goal.
<br />These, some of these items, I don’t know there is, some of the items that were addressed in the
<br />public testimony involve possible legislative issues, not really something for this Commission to
<br />undertake. So I would just caution you on that. There’s, there are jurisdictional issues. And in
<br />this last, the suggestions of the counsel, I guess I really have to read through this.
<br />WOODWARD: Okay, Mr. McKinney, did you want to say anything?
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