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and 110-foot long wood chip transport conveyors, and install a concrete pad and step up transformer <br />and a switchgear to improve interconnection with the HELCO grid. <br /> <br />So the documents that are under consideration today are (1) the Hearings Officer’s recommendation <br />and findings of fact, conclusions of law and decision and Order; (2) the Intervenor’s Exceptions of the <br />Hearings Officer’s Recommendation; (3) Hu Honua’s and the County’s Statement in Support of the <br />Hearings Officer’s Recommendation. Furthermore, our rules provide that if any party to the proceeding <br />has filed proposed findings of fact, we must incorporate a ruling on each such proposal in our decision. <br />Accordingly we must also consider the proposed findings of facts submitted by Hu Honua and the <br />County jointly, as well as those submitted by the Intervenors. So Planning Commission Rule 1-5(e) <br />permits us to hold a meeting closed to the public upon 2/3 vote of the members present today for the <br />purposes of consulting with our attorney and for other purposes realized by law, such as conducting <br />adjunct judiciary functions, including our deliberations on matters before us as permitted by Section 92- <br />6(a)(2) of the Hawaii Revised Statutes. So with that being said we basically have to go over the <br />decisions, conclusions of facts, and all the exceptions, and either integrate those or basically work <br />through that to come up with which findings of fact and conclusions of law that we are going to go <br />with. But we can now close the public portion of the hearing and have the discussion with us, but we <br />need 2/3 vote for that. So if there is a motion to close the public hearing portion of the meeting, we’ll <br />entertain it. <br /> <br />DOMINGO: Mr. Chairman? <br /> <br />KERN: Commissioner Domingo. <br /> <br />DOMINGO: I move that we close the public hearing portion of this meeting. <br /> <br />KERN: Is there a second? <br /> <br />MECKLENBURG: To clarify the motion is to move into an executive session, if you will, that it will <br />be closed to the public. <br /> <br />DOMINGO: Yes. <br /> <br />KERN: Is there a second? <br /> <br />AU: Second. <br /> <br />KERN: Okay, any discussion on that? Seeing none, Jeff. <br /> <br />DARROW: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to clarify the motion, again, the motion is to close the <br />hearing and to go into executive session, or no? It’s just to close the public hearing on this matter? <br /> <br />KERN: To close the public portion of the hearing. <br /> <br />MECKLENBURG: To move into executive session, essentially -. <br />15 <br /> EXHIBIT C <br /> <br />