2012-05-03 Windward Transcript Circus

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Concurrently with that, I am still amending the special permit application based on feedback and some of what’s going on this morning. A lot of the concerns we believe can be remedied with the inclusion of the State lease. There are concerns with parking, noise, times of the events. We really believe with the amended application the adjacent parcel, the State lands, will actually be able to remedies, remedy some of those concerns and really help Graham kind of continue the mission that, that they’re doing down in SPACE. Oh, the question as how long would it take for me to prepare an amended special permit -- Assuming rd that the final EA is published within, in the May 23 Environmental Notice, we normally give a 30- day grace period for any other comments that may come out of that. But within six months from today I could actually have the amended special permit back before the Commission. KERN: Thank you very much. Are there any questions for Ms. Lee Loy? I got one quick question. How sure are you that it would be six months, how confident that -? LEE LOY: Actually part of the process with DLNR and the publication of the final EA is what’s known as a conditional lease. We would be required, because the State is a landowner, they would actually have to help us sign off on the amended special permit application because we would be including their lands. So on the application form there’s a signature that’s required, and the State would have to prepare that letter for us. So once we’re able to secure that letter, and Graham can move forward with the lease with them, then we’d be able to complete the special permit application. KERN: So how confident are you? LEE LOY: I’m very confident. KERN: Okay, thank you. Actually, Graham, you might want to use that mike cause that chord is kind of short. HONG: I think Sue was mentioning about a lunch being involved, but we’d let that one go. KERN: Mr. Ellis. GRAHAM: Okay, Members of the Commission, the first -. KERN: State your name and area you represent. GRAHAM: I’m Graham Ellis. KERN: Very good. ELLIS: And before starting my presentation, I’d just like to give an apology from our Executive Director Jena Way who is attending to her mother -- her ill mother in Oklahoma and doing her best to recover from the destruction of their family home there in a tornado recently -- which keeps her from attending today. She is actually the Executive Director of Hawai‘i’s Volcano Circus, while I’m the 13 EXHIBIT B