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GRAHAM: You’ve heard what Mr. Torigoe had to say about where we’re at today, that normally what we’re going to try to do is sort of grant or not grant standing. And there’s a possibility there could be others since notice was not given properly. There’s also a possibility that you could work things out with the petition holder, I mean, the Special Permit holder. Would you address those issues for us and make sure we get on the right track? And start with your name and address, please. HAWNEY: Okay. My name is Roger Hawney. I’m president of Orchidland Community Association. My address is HCR 1, Box 4053, Keaau, Hawaii 96749. My understanding here now as far as the deferral of this, I guess we’d like to go on record with the concerns that you already have a letter addressing our concerns here. GOIN: You should confirm that they got that. HAWNEY: And, yeah, can I get confirmation that you received our request? GRAHAM: Yeah. The basic issue for us now is not substance about the application before us. HAWNEY: Right. GRAHAM: But it’s about whether you want to proceed with this intervention into a contested case proceeding. In the contested case proceeding that’s where the substance of the application will come up. HAWNEY: Okay. GRAHAM: And then so normally what we would do is we would consider your application to intervene here today; and we’d ask the landowner, the permit holder, if they object to you intervening or not, and we deal with that first. HAWNEY: Okay, so, yes, we are requesting to have standing in this. If there is a way that we can get issues resolved with Mr. Wood and his representation that would be fine. But at this point that’s where we stand. We haven’t had contact with Mr. Wood really about this, or not in any detail. And so we’re here today basically to make sure that we do get standing in this. We don’t want to have to come back multiple times to be assured that we have standing. And so I guess what I get from you is that you’re not really wanting to hear the issues here today, you just want to know whether we really want standing in this or not; and I say we do. GRAHAM: Right. It also occurs to me that since Mr. Wood’s representative would like a postponement till the next meeting if we were to vote today, which we plan to do, on granting you standing or not, if we grant you standing, our normal process would be to decide how we move forward. Like we’ll assign the case to a hearing officer perhaps and then have him schedule it and whatever. But if Mr. Wood’s representative is asking for a continuation and if you think there is a possibility of working out issues, in EXHIBIT C 4