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From: Megan Isaac To: WPCtestimonv; LPCtestimonv Subject: SMART CITY AGENDA Date: Wednesday,January 15,2025 12:02:59 PM Attachments: AFFIDAVIT) Mitch Roth.pdf Aloha Planning Commissioners. My name is Megan Isaac I live in Hilo and run a business in Hilo. I am not a professional researcher but myself and several others wanted to look into a matter where I had heard many people saying that they didn't feel that Mayor was being truthful in his briefing of the public at a meeting in Volcano. What we have found is a trove of documents that seem significant to the General Plan. The results of the findings are attached in the form of an affadavit that was cosigned by 8 other residents of the island. This affidavit of fact was delivered to Mayor Mitch Roth and to Frecia Cevallos and no response has come to refute any of the facts. I was prevented from speaking by Chairwoman Barbara De Franco. It was my intention to enter into the record the facts surrounding our partnership with Fortaleza Smart City in Brazil and to bring attention to the concealment of these agreements and partnerships and to bring attention to the matter of Planning Department officials April Surpanant continuing to deny that a Smart City Agenda exists where many are able to see the premise of urban development and infrastructure that would facilitate 'Smart City.' Most importantly, because of the decision of the previous Mayor to conceal these agreements from the public and no subsequent disclosures about them in the public, we are left to conclude that there is something covert going on and a lack of transparency about the degree to which Hawaii County is being connected to Smart City planning and construction. It is noted that the information about Fortaleza being a Smart City is freely accessible on the web. Also the Agenda of Brazil to promote Smart Cities and the fact of a international company Planet Smart City having constructed two Smart Cities on the outskirts of Forteleza are easily searched on the internet and verified. When there is no transparency and disclosure it breaks public trust and it's also likely that violations are occuring since it is not in the public interest that there are secrets and non disclosures at the same time a Planning Document is being presented to the public as representing the public 'good'. Yours sincerely Megan Isaac Hilo Resident