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phone, and she suggested that she might be requiring more special duty. So, again, I will work with
<br />the police to establish what those numbers should be.
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<br />GIFFIN: And at that entrance that you are talking about, to allow the concertgoers in, I know that
<br />there is a gate. That gate will be left open and manned by your people?
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<br />BOSTOCK: Yes.
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<br />GIFFIN: So then, they just come in. Is that where they are going to be showing their concert
<br />tickets?
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<br />BOSTOCK: No. We, I’m moving the checkpoint to the bottom of Waiki‘i Road near the polo
<br />field, so that we allow space for almost 100 cars – I estimate about 80 cars actually – to take, so
<br />they can stack, if you like, along Waiki‘i Road. That was a key. In previous years the gatehouse
<br />was the checkpoint, and it makes sense to me to move the checkpoint towards the polo field, so that
<br />we can allow that stacking to occur on Waiki‘i Road not on Saddle Road.
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<br />GIFFIN: Right, Saddle Road, okay.
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<br />MOORE: If I can, just to give some perspective here. I think it’s important to understand Tim’s
<br />background, and this is not his first concert. So he is coming into this as, I think -. It will be
<br />acknowledged that the previous music festival, which I did not attend, were not as professionally
<br />managed. And if Tim, with your permission, to just run through some of your background. Tim?
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<br />GIFFIN: Sure, Bill.
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<br />BOSTOCK: Thank you. I’ve been a professional event producer and promoter for 25-some years,
<br />15 years in Honolulu. My company has presented events that are at the Hawai‘i Theater, at the
<br />Concert Hall, that have toured to Kahilu Theatre on this island to Maui Arts and Cultural Center.
<br />My events primarily are family events, international music concerts. Just last year I presented
<br />Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Afro-Cuban All Starts, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa – thank you. I
<br />probably do 20 events a year of really different styles. I don’t do what Tom Moffatt does, which is
<br />oldies and rock, and I don’t do young pop, and I don’t do reggae. There are other promoters that do
<br />those things. I have a very strong family audience, demographic niche. I also in the last five years
<br />have presented, I think, 16 street festivals downtown from the Mardi Gras Street Festivals and the
<br />Cinco de Mayo and the Oktoberfest Street Festivals among others, which are licensed by the City
<br />and County of Honolulu. And I work very closely with Honolulu Police Department and DTS over
<br />that county to create and manage those events. And I will be running the Cinco de Mayo Street
<br />Festival in just a couple of weeks downtown. So I still have events that are running in Honolulu.
<br />But since moving to the Big Island six months ago, I have intention to work more and more in the
<br />Big Island. Just in May as well I’m presenting Kuana Torres Kahele in three concerts on this island
<br />– Aloha Theatre, The Palace Theatre, Kahilu Theatre. And in December, this past December, I
<br />presented Amy Hanaiali‘i and her band in a great couple of Christmas concerts that was sold out –
<br />Kahilu Theatre and The Palace Theatre.
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<br />So my background is music promotion, event promotion, more in-venues than out; I worked more
<br />in, you know, indoor venues than out. But I have a great deal of experience in outside as well. And
<br />I’m bringing that experience to this event. I’m bringing both experiences, because another key
<br />element of my plan is to attract an older concert-going demographic, not the, well, less lawless and
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