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<br />ISHIBASHI: Thank you. <br /> <br />SUNG: Sure. <br /> <br />KERN: Any other questions? Seeing none, do you have anything else to add? <br /> <br />SUNG: No. <br /> <br />KERN: You may have a seat. <br /> <br />SUNG: Thank you. <br /> <br />KERN: Thank you. Okay, we’re going to do public testimony next. I’m going to limit public testimony to <br />three minutes per person for the sake of timeliness. I will call up four people at a time, and you will speak as <br />you are called up. So Al, and I also apologize for butchering anybody’s name, Dettweiler, Rick Melzig, Donna <br />Debaets, and James Walsh. I’ll swear you all in at the same time. And then before you speak you’ll need to <br />give your name and just the area you represent will be fine. So if you’ll all raise your right hand. Do you swear <br />to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? <br /> <br />TESTIFIERS: I do. <br /> <br />KERN: Okay, very good. So we’ll start with Al, and name and area you represent, and you may begin. And I <br />will let you know when your three minutes are up and you can summarize. <br /> <br />DETTWEILER. Good morning, Commissioners. I’m honored to be able to give testimony today for Verizon <br />cell phone tower. My name Al Dettweiler. I live at 13-3063 Kaupili Street in Pahoa, that is Leilani Estates. I <br />am the president of Leilani Community Association. And I’m here to testify in favor of putting the cell tower <br />up. Now there are a number of reasons why we want to have this cell tower installed in Leilani. The No. 1 <br />reason is the limited service that we do have in Leilani. The only service we have right now is from AT&T. <br />Their tower is located by PGV, and it’s very marginal because Leilani is not a flat level subdivision. It has hills <br />so it blocks signals at times. So there is very limited access within limit. <br /> <br />Also it’s an emergency situation. We’re in dire need of a cell phone service that works in Leilani. If we were to <br />have a serious problem in Leilani and the landlines were to be broken, there is absolutely no communication. <br />Now I also have experienced back in the year 1991 when PGV was still building their power plant. They had a <br />KS7 blowout, no communication. Nobody knew what was going on. The Police Department told people to do <br />one thing, the Fire Department told them to do something else and Civil Defense told them to do something else. <br />The reason that happened, no communication. We don’t want to deal with that anymore here in Leilani. <br /> <br />Now I’d like to bring to the attention of the Commission also that you’ve already set a precedent for this issue. <br />Nanawale has a cell tower on their community property. So you’ve really set a precedent on that issue. <br /> <br />Also I’m a newspaper carrier for the Tribune Herald, and I handle all of lower Puna. I’m out there at 2 o’clock <br />in the morning. My wife handles Leilani Estates. The only communication we have is a cell phone. We don’t <br />have no landlines around. If anything happens we hope that we can communicate with each other. <br /> <br />Now let me just say this to you from my experience. I’ve done a lot of neighborhood watch type of things, not <br />within Leilani. I’m talking about Red Road. I’m talking about all along the shoreline, all the way down to <br />Kamilo that without cell service we’re in a big problem. I came to accidents that occurred in the middle of the <br />night, had people who had family abuse and the wife is sitting out in the middle of the road trying to get some <br />7 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br /> <br /> <br />