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PHARIS: What we’ll accommodate is, by regulation, we are to take care of any of our, the
<br />impervious areas we’ve created – the roof, the parking lot, the sidewalks – all areas that are, we are
<br />to handle all those increase runoff, which we’ve done. In addition to that, we’ll handle some of the
<br />offsite that’s traveling through the site. We’ve -. The top portion is right here. It’s similar to what
<br />Roy was talking about. The school has an intercept cannel down here. We’ve done the same thing
<br />up here – intercept some of the water that’s coming from up above by the high school and down and
<br />so forth. And then we have some drywells at the bottom; there’s drywells along here, there’s
<br />drywells inside the parking lots, and there’s a drywell down in here. So we’ve, besides the roof area
<br />here and all the parking surface area, we’ve accommodated beyond the required amount. We are
<br />only required to do a 10-year flood when we are in excess of, we’ve done a 50-year. And we have a
<br />margin of safety even beyond that accordingly. As far as handling a 100-year, we have not; that’s
<br />not required of us, although we’ve handled some of it. We expect that the flow pattern, which
<br />we’ve designed, it already came through the site, and we expect that to still, we have not altered
<br />that. With the exception of that retaining wall down here we have had, we’ve increased it by one
<br />foot above the adjacent grade, which will deflect some of the water, based on the grade, will flow
<br />towards the street, and it will help, again, help the school from receiving water. When it’s
<br />inundated, it’ll go over that wall and continue on through, as it had before.
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<br />BEAUDET: Thank you for the testimony. And I’ll be calling up, we have four people who have
<br />signed up for testimony, so I think with that, I’ll call up the first two. And if you could take your
<br />seats. The first one on the list is Ken Melrose and Curtis Hartling. If you could both please raise
<br />your right hands. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Hawai‘i
<br />Leeward Planning Commission?
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<br />TESTIFIERS: I do.
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<br />BEAUDET: Please state your name, resident address, and proceed with your testimony. We’ll start
<br />with you.
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<br />HARTLING: My name is Curtis Hartling. I live at 73-4615 Kaloko Halia Place here in
<br />Kailua-Kona. Now, first of all, thank you for the opportunity to sit here before you. I’m here on an
<br />assignment from our local Church leader, Judge Aley K. Auna Jr., who wished to be here this
<br />morning but is currently in session, so he asked that I come here and represent him. Now, we’ve
<br />heard testimony from the professionals regarding the architectural standpoint, the design of the
<br />building. President has asked that I, or Aley K. Auna Jr. has asked, that I share with you perhaps
<br />from the human element in just a few minutes regarding the Church. As members of The Church of
<br />Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and many of you probably have friends or associates who you
<br />know who are members of the Church, here within the Stake, we have eight different jurisdictions,
<br />or Wards, and they stretch from the Captain Cook area, or Kealakekua, for the building that we are
<br />speaking about now, to Kohala and also to Honoka‘a and points in between Waimea and of course
<br />Kona. We have membership that is just under 4,000. We believe that a community is as strong as
<br />its weakest family. We are committed to building families within the Church. Obviously, we have
<br />a set of tenets, spiritual belief, but also that we have responsibility within the communities where
<br />we reside. Our instruction for our membership is that we be self-sufficient, that we be industrious,
<br />that we strive to be positive influence within the community, within the school systems, within the
<br />volunteer organizations. And so just for the possibility of having another building constructed for
<br />the benefit of our membership there locally is a great boon for us and we appreciate your
<br />consideration in this. In speaking on behalf of those who would be affected by the location of the
<br />building, there is a large population of the membership who lives there in the area, but they drive to
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