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Singletary: We do have pool tables and we have a foosball table and I plan on putting
<br />in a video game corner and all for the keiki, like we don't charge for any of the games.
<br />Hitsman: Yes.
<br />Taniguchi: So, it's just free?
<br />Hitsman: Yes, it's just free games.
<br />Singletary: Yes, we're just gonna have free games, kind of you know, when you bring
<br />your kids in it kind of gives them a nice something to do as opposed to like you know,
<br />mean I see what my son wants to do, just run around and cause havoc, so.
<br />Hitsman: And the other part of that too is that you know, up in Mountain View area, I'm
<br />not sure how many of you live up there are familiar, there's just really no place for the
<br />community to come and hang out and you know, be with ohana, be with neighbors, you
<br />know just be a community. And so, that's really what we're trying to you know, establish
<br />up there, and so having pool tables, you know my husband likes to sit around and talk
<br />business across a game of pool, and so I'm sure that other community members like
<br />that as well. And so, that's really you know what we're aiming for, we're not trying to
<br />be touristy, we're really trying to give a place for the people that live in and work in the
<br />community to have a place to hang out and just come relax.
<br />Gonzalez: Thank you for that information, and just keep in mind, like I'm glad you guys
<br />are going into this eyes wide open, you're making a community gathering place, that's
<br />kind of like the underlining concern for people that live there because there's going to
<br />get more people there. You know, the clientele you're trying to bring in and you're trying
<br />to create is in a good way for the neighbors as well, and so we appreciate that.
<br />Singletary: Well, we try to keep everything affordable like you know, if you look at our
<br />menu prices, even like we keep everything under $20.00 so that it's 100% locally -driven
<br />business, we aren't trying to cater to the tourism industry, there's enough of that here.
<br />Okabe: I commend you for trying to do that for the community, I think the
<br />Commissioners concern is, every time when this particular Commission addresses
<br />the vendors, complaints is a very serious situation for us. We take that very seriously,
<br />and I think when you say that you're gonna try to outreach to the community and have
<br />the conversation, that's very important. I think you might want to also try to have
<br />conversations with the church, because miscommunication in regards to where they
<br />should be parking could create some problems as well.
<br />Hitsman: And, we didn't even realize that until we started getting these protests, and
<br />we're like wait, what? Like, and then we started paying more attention to like when the
<br />church was parking there, we're like oh maybe that's it you know.
<br />Okabe: Okay, are there any other questions, Commissioners?
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