2011-05-19 Leeward Exh B - UH Marine Center

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reef, shoreline and forest, including the turtles, fish, birds and whales that inhabit these areas … and to share with them our feelings for the beauty of our neighborhood and for our cultural history, in the sprit of aloha.” And I think we at University of Hawai‘i at Hilo share that mission, and hope you help us in developing this facility. Thank you. BOWMAN: Thank you. FEE: Madam Chair, can I just make one point about the twelve faculty units? They are in a separate building; they are not in the student dorm. So there is that, if we can make the change and add the twelve units, that would be perfect. BOWMAN: Anything else? Any questions, Commissioners, of the applicant? Commissioner Hickcox. HICKCOX: Under the “Boat Building,” it says, “marine support facilities to accommodate small boat repair, maintenance and storage activities, scuba tank filling,” etc. Is this a commercial venture, or is it just to support the activity at the -? FEE: Just to support the activity. This is a university function. BOWMAN: Thank you. Any other questions? I have one. You had said that your two trips a day would be mainly on the weekends, is that true? That’s what I read in the background report. FEE: We are talking about projected boat usage of the boat ramp. BOWMAN: Right. FEE: That’s the average usage, and it could be more; but on average every week that’s probably close to what the average is. BOWMAN: But in your background – where is it – you said it would be on the weekends mostly, which I would assume, I thought school was during the week. TURNER: Is it okay if I clarify this one? So this is not going to be replacing or supplementing the campus of Hilo; so this is going to be for specialty field courses typically running during two-week periods on the weekends or over the summer semesters. So in that case we are looking at a running average. Even a boat facility will only house four vessels. On our worst day we may have four vessels on the water at once. On another day we may have zero. So we are looking at two vessels on average. And we’re going to have higher use on weekends, higher use in summer and then higher use during breaks like spring break or something, because this facility really will house students during the times when they are not at the major campuses – when they are doing two-week field studies, when they are doing, say, the QUEST’s field class like what we are teaching right now. And the QUEST field class is an example we don’t use any boats, so for that two-week period there will be zero boat use. So that’s why we are looking at two as an average. BOWMAN: So your occupancy then for your dormitories would only be during that time. TURNER: It’s going to be sporadic. It’s going to be -. Think of it as four primary uses. One to supplement UH Hilo education, or Hawai‘i system education, right now – so for example for these 5 EXHIBIT B