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HOUSEL: Thank you, thank you. On the left side here, if you’d like to use the microphone so we could record it. Please state your name and address. On this side, yeah. DILL: Me? HOUSEL: You, right. DILL: Okay. All right, my name is Shellie Dill and I live at 74-5162 Puuokaliu Place in Queen Liliuokalani Subdivision. And what else? HOUSEL: Go ahead and give your testimony. DILL: Okay. I testify against this. I’ve lived on this island for 27 years and I’ve seen it go through a lot of changes. I’ve seen the hotels ruin the shorelines. I mean it’s just like it’s not even, where they come in,it makes it not pretty anymore. It’s almost like being on the mainland. And it’s, when you are in the water at Lyman’s and you’re looking at the island, it’s just so beautiful. And you just like feel God right there, you know, cause it’s just so gorgeous and you get to see like the pure, pure part without any like construction stuff everywhere and cement buildings. And it’s just really beautiful, and I just would like to protect that. So I would like to testify against them doing this at Lyman’s. I’ve seen them ruin a lot of the coastline from the hotels in the past 27 years. And at this time I really, my heart goes out. Lyman’s is a really fun place and I would hate to see it ruined by a bunch of condos, or whatever they’re planned on doing. That’s all, I think. HOUSEL: Okay, thank you for your testimony. Could you please state your name and address, and then go ahead and give your testimony. LOOFBOURROW: Certainly. Gail Loofbourrow, 73-1155 Oluolu, Kailua-Kona, in the islands. I’m here to address not having development, as a mom of a surfer, as a sister of a surfer and a family member who admires the grandchildren as they’re learning to surf. You addressed every issue on many different levels; and I applaud the fact that you do it and the difficult decisions you make with grace and intelligence. I’m asking you this time to address the issue, maybe for the first time, maybe not, with your heart. Surfing is the heart of Kona. It is important to us, it adds balance to everything else that is going. And we who have surfers or admire surfers consider it way up there in what the island is all about. It is so easy to chip away piece by piece by piece of things that are important. And you have to make those decisions, and I don’t know if I could do it in your place. But this time I’m asking you to please put the hearts of Kona above the dollar amount. I know we’re going to work the money out, it’s tough times. Each of us goes home and say, oh, my God, how are we going to do this, as you must do in your venue. But we need to keep our surfing spots. We need to keep the young men and women standing by the shoreline with their hands in their armpits that run with the water. It’s part of us and we need to keep it. And I hope you do your part in doing that. Thank you for this opportunity. HOUSEL: Thank you for your testimony. LOOFBOURROW: You’re welcome. HOUSEL: Would you like to give your name and address, please. 4 EXHIBIT E