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PARTIES: We do. ALAMEDA: Thank you. And just, since I didn’t get your name and address for the record, could you start, sir? LIM: I’m Steven Lim, attorney for the applicant SunStone Kona LLC, P. O. Box 666, Hilo. With me on my left is Mr. Curtis DeWeese who is one of the principles of SunStone Kona LLC, to my right is Mr. Greg Mooers, our planning consultant for the Kona Sea Village project. ALAMEDA: All right, thank you. Sir, you want to state your name and address for the record? HARDY-SULLIVAN: Is it Mr. Yuen or myself? Intervenor and the petitioner, per se, David Hardy-Sullivan representing the consolidated property owners of the Hawaii Planing Mills Subdivision, 75-6052 D Alii Drive, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. ALAMEDA: Thank you, thank you, sir. I think I want your address for the record, sir. Mr. DeWeese? Yeah, what’s your address? DEWEESE: One thousand one Bishop Street, 1240 Pauahi Tower, Honolulu. ALAMEDA: All right. Thank you, Mr. DeWeese. Okay. LIM: Excuse me, Mr. Chairman. ALAMEDA: Sure. LIM: We had an unusual circumstance in the conduct of the hearing at the contested case level, and that was related to Mr. Hardy-Sullivan’s claim for American’s Disability’s Act procedures, I guess. At the hearings officer level that the hearings officer provided that Mr. Hardy-Sullivan would be allowed to take breaks whenever he wants, and that if he wanted to gather his thoughts, we would agree to do so. We did that during the hearing, so I wanted to make sure that this particular proceeding that Mr. Hardy-Sullivan is stipulating that these accommodations, the reasonable accommodations, that are being provided by the Planning Commission today are satisfactory to him also. ALAMEDA: All right. Mr. Sullivan? HARDY-SULLIVAN: I discussed this with the Chairman, Mr. Alameda, and yes, I do have a disability. The initial request for accommodation on our second hearing date included both the opportunity please for short breaks. That was an extended hearing. That won’t be necessary today. But I did ask the hearings officer at that time that I have short-term memory loss, and that interruptions in the process of testimony, I certainly asked Mr. Lim to object anything I did incorrect and Ms. Self, but I also asked the hearings officer to either sustain or deny the objection; and that was part of the problem, is I became confused. So, I don’t think that should happen today in this type of procedure. Thank you. EXHIBIT B 6