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<br />DUGON: Dugon.
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<br />KERN: Dugon. Okay.
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<br />DUGON: You hear me?
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<br />KERN: Dugon, it’s on.
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<br />DUGON: Okay.
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<br />KERN: Just give me your name and area in which you live, and then your three minutes will begin.
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<br />DUGON: Okay, Ron Dugon. I live in upper Ainaloa, about three miles up. And I’ve been there for many
<br />years, and I kind of like it up there. And I’m for the convenience store because, for several reasons. I didn’t
<br />plan on saying anything here today but I’ve been listening to people. And one of the reasons I’d like to have it
<br />is because you can, easy to run down there and get something that you need and go back home, instead of taking
<br />your life in your hands at the intersection at the bottom of Ainaloa, which is what you do.
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<br />KERN: Can you hold the microphone a little closer? Just closer to your mouth, and it’ll work.
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<br />DUGON: I was saying that I’d rather have that convenience store close by so that I don’t have to go down and
<br />take my life in my hands every time I hit the bottom of Ainaloa at that intersection -- that they’ve been
<br />supposedly working on for years and they keep, you know, surveying it but nothing ever gets done. So it’d be
<br />really convenient that way. Cause the other store is down the road about four miles or three miles, somewhere
<br />around in there. And so it’d be safer that way. And I don’t think it’s going to increase much more traffic
<br />coming up Ainaloa because I don’t think people are going to drive up from Paradise Park to go to Ai -, you
<br />know, Wiki Wiki sub -, the one at the Ainaloa. They go to the Orchidland, you know. And those roads, if you
<br />take the back roads to Orchidland, they’re all shot. You know, they’re pot holed, muddied, and everything like
<br />that. So that’s not feasible driving down that way either. So it’s kind of hard.
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<br />And the meals for the, you know, indigent people that are, you know, can’t get out of the house, don’t have cars,
<br />a lot of people down there don’t have cars -- they ride around with bicycles and walking and what not -- I think
<br />it’d be really convenient. And I don’t think it poses any danger to that park because the mailboxes are set up on
<br />concrete, and they have a big building. I don’t think anybody is going to run across the street from the store
<br />and, you know, run into the playground or anything. I think it’s pretty well protected. And I just think, and that
<br />property that the Association says they’re going to develop is basically abandoned properties. It has been up
<br />there for years. And as you’ve heard nobody wants to do anything with it. So it’s not going to go anywhere
<br />soon, you know. So I don’t know how long you have to wait for something, to do something up there.
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<br />And as far as being 3500 residents that they represent, there are 3500 residents, you know, that Ainaloa
<br />represents. But that’s, not every resident has the same opinion that the Association has. They don’t agree with
<br />that even though there are 3500 residents that live in that area that own places. These are not renters, these are
<br />owners. So I just wanted to say that, you know, I’m favor of it and sooner the better.
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<br />And I know Hagerty. We don’t always agree on everything. We’ve been, sometimes been to County Council
<br />against each other. But on this, on this particular project and his ability to put it through for the people in that
<br />area, I think it’s a great idea. And I just want to say that I’m all for it. You know, I hope that, you know, like I
<br />said, that sort of thing where somebody said they didn’t -.
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<br />KERN: Thank you.
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