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in the hot sun and they are usually there all day, you’ve got a tremendous liability issue – where do
<br />you draw the line with your liability exposure? Does that rest with the County’s responsibility at
<br />that point, because they are on a County road or a State road? Or is that -. Do you have liability?
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<br />BOSTOCK: My understanding of liquor liability is that I’m always responsible, if I’ve poured for
<br />any event that happens thereafter with, that involves intoxication. So that is my understanding and I
<br />would certainly take that on under my insurance. If I can say as well, in conversations with the
<br />Police Department, for this year I have undertaken to not run a liquor concession for this year; I
<br />wanted to prove that we can run this properly. And as I understand it, the special duty would not be
<br />provided, if there was a liquor concession, and that the chief made a special waiver, which I don’t
<br />think the chief would like me to do until I have proved that I can run this event properly. So I want
<br />to keep the request for liquor in, and this is one of the changes, or some word changes that Bill is
<br />going to suggest in a condition, but when, we are not intending to run a bar tent this year.
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<br />WHITTEMORE: But that’s only the first year. I’m concerned about the second, third, fourth, fifth,
<br />ongoing because, you know, one year is fine, but the road is not going to get any better in the
<br />second or third or fourth or fifth year. I’ve seen the trail. I’ve been in the trail of traffic and,
<br />unfortunately, I’ve been behind people that were not being in control of their vehicle, so -. It’s a
<br />party atmosphere in there.
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<br />MOORE: I think -. If I can, a couple of things. One is, you know, trying to reprove, re-brand and
<br />reprove what was going on. The second is, I think, Tim, if you can touch on some of the, you
<br />know, the strategies in terms of, you know, who you are bringing in and timing of your main acts,
<br />and the like, in terms of just trying to manage some of that. And again, the initial plan is to end that
<br />in daylight, so, which I think the other concerts didn’t, so we are going home in sunlight rather than
<br />in dark. But if you can touch on some of the other strategies.
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<br />BOSTOCK: Yes. Commissioner, to answer you the first part of your question, how am I making
<br />changes from the event as it happened before, is how I perceive it. Yeah, I think the first part is
<br />delineating the perimeters of the event and working out the entrances, as I described, so that you
<br />don’t have this backup on Saddle Road. I think the second part is providing sufficient security that
<br />are professional; they are not volunteers, they are not, they haven’t come here in exchange for
<br />tickets, which is what, a majority of security, I believe, in the past were simply provided tickets, and
<br />so they weren’t trained security. So you have trained uniformed security, and you have enough.
<br />And as I said, we’ll communicate with the police more. They may be bumping my numbers of both
<br />private security and special duty from my existing plan, and I would be comfortable with that. We
<br />have enough for the numbers. And then there is a matter of how you approach the event itself; so it
<br />starts early enough, and that you search bags properly, you provide that no coolers are allowed in
<br />and you advertise and promote that. And just as the Waikīkī Shell and the Waikoloa Bowl, some
<br />people will turn up with coolers and you have to turn them away. And you have to provide, have to
<br />make sure there are enough people to allow you to do that; that there are enough people to turn
<br />people back in the line and say, I’m sorry, take that back to the car. Then if great big puff of smoke
<br />is seen in the middle of the crowd and the smell is very recognizable, you send your security in to
<br />stop the weed smoking. In the past there has been a really large amount of weed smoking. And we
<br />are not going to body search people because that’s not within our ability, but we can stop smoking
<br />immediately. And just as happens at the Waikīkī Shell with security that are used, that know what
<br />they are supposed to be doing, you go in and you stop the first two very obviously and quite
<br />dramatically, you move through the crowd quite fast and you eject individuals that are breaking the
<br />law, and you confiscate items. I’ve talked to Captain Wana about how we would deal with
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