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GRAHAM: I don't, just because I think they generally apply to what we do in the <br />meetings or in reference to an item that will soon be on the agenda or is on our agenda <br />(inaudible). <br />CHAIR: I see and I think the only issue here, or the main issue here, is whether or not <br />Rene Siracusa could be considered by the public as a member of the Planning Commission, and <br />thus when she writes a letter such as this, is she then representing herself or is she representing, <br />or representative of, the Planning Commission. And that's not for you to decide, it's really a <br />rhetorical question. <br />GRAHAM.- Sure. <br />CHAIR: Any further questions for Mr. Graham? That's all I had for you, sir, and I <br />appreciate your coming in. <br />GRAHAM.- I'll stay around, if you need to call me back. <br />CHAIR: Thank you. <br />GRAHAM.- Okay. <br />CHAIR: Thank you very much. Now I think Ms. Berry wrote the original letter, so Ms. <br />Berry? And for the record, would you just like to say who you are and if you represent anyone, <br />or <br />BERRY: I'm Linda Berry, and I'm representing myself, I guess. My friend, Laurie <br />Lloyd - Roberts, is who I wrote that letter for. <br />CHAIR: And she's the lady that owns the business <br />BERRY: She's the proprietor of the store that was never mentioned in my first letter, nor <br />was the name of the business. I said pet supplies (inaudible) generally. It's a small town, but <br />how the Planning Commission even came into the subject I wondered about that when I read <br />Rene's letter. My whole letter centered around the financial problems she was having in getting <br />a business loan, and nowhere in that letter did I say anything about even the name of the <br />business. It was just a general letter on businesses in Pahoa having a hard time finding <br />financing. So when I read Rene 's letter, I thought it was really malicious. She just went on <br />about this zoning thing, and you know, something totally unrelated to what my purpose of the <br />letter was. You know, I was mad at the banks and mad at the lenders when I wrote that letter, <br />and it was tome it was way out of context and my whole purpose for writing that letter. You <br />know, it kind of shifted the whole focus onto zoning, and that wasn't what I was about in that <br />first letter. And then by the time I got the pen flowing on the second letter, you know, I really <br />thought that this woman, who I may have met in the past I've heard of her not even knowing <br />anything about the subject of my friend's business, launched like she was an expert on my <br />friend's business, and accusing her of going off half - cocked and I don't know, I was really <br />offended, like wow, this woman, you know, she's got her own agenda going. You know, and <br />that's what my first thoughts were when I read her letter, and then of course I sat right down and <br />wrote her a letter. Because that wasn't the purpose <br />— <br />El <br />