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

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two weeks we are teaching a field course, we would be located there. There is a six-week summer session, we would be located there. When a group comes over from Cornell to do two weeks of a field class, right now they are staying in a hotel or at Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy, they would hopefully stay there and do their work out of there. Whether they require boats or not would be determined by the use pattern. But to say that this is, you know, a 24/7 boat based running facility is not accurate. So that’s why we came up with this two on average; depending on a class, depending on when it’s taught and what vessel support it needs, we might need two per day on average, heavier on the weekends. Does that make sense? BOWMAN: I just maybe have one more question. Sorry, Commissioners. So the residents whoever would be residing there, the students, they would be directly related to projects within the Kalākaua Marine -? TURNER: Correct. So they would be either enrolled in UH Hilo classes, they would be part of visiting scientists groups that would come over for a week or two to do, to teach their own classes or to do research based in UH, or they could even be, if we are talking about the auditorium, a community-base group that’s renting our facility for a day or a couple of days or something like that. So we are not talking about, you know, moving a spring semester course to this facility for the entire semester; it’s going to be sporadic use based upon the -. BOWMAN: Directly related to the Marine -. TURNER: Absolutely. Correct. BOWMAN: Okay. Any other questions, Commissioners? If none, you may be seated. And I will, we do have some testifiers. So if I could bring up all three testifiers and swear you in, and then we’ll go one by one. First of all, Peter Hackstedde, Rob Shallenberger and Jason Turner. TURNER: I think, I gave mine earlier, so can I -. BOWMAN: Oh, okay, yes, thank you. So if you would raise your right hand, please. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Hawai‘i Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: I do. BOWMAN: Thank you. Would you like to go first? SHALLENBERGER: Why don’t we offer Peter first -. BOWMAN: Okay, Peter first. This is Peter Hackstedde? HACKSTEDDE: Yes, I’m Peter Hackstedde. I’m president of the Puakō Community Association, and I just wanted to comment on the SMA permit. We brought up five issues that we had with this program – basically the water, the sewage, the fire and the boat ramp. And they have answered all those things. We are excited about this project. We think this would be a beautiful add to the Puakō Community Association. They have all these kids down here. They are down here all the summer. Every summer they come in there; they do all this great research on the reefs. And it’s just to our benefit, so we can see what things are going on with the reef. And it’s just an added 6 EXHIBIT B