2012-05-03 Windward Transcript Circus

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were told by the Supreme Court that they are completely autonomous -- Education, food, whatever they want to do, no building permits. It was a private association that nobody had any business sticking their big fat nose in their business. And the sad part about it is we have a dysfunctional association at Sea View that needs to be resolved. And if you as the Association with people who are there can get this resolved with the Association and not bring your baggage and allow, in other words, if you can -. And I have interesting information of this and case law around that. Fit if I can be, we can bring this to a very good resolve for everybody. Thank you. KERN: Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, thank you. Jon Olson, name and area in which you live and you may begin. Use the microphone, please. OLSON: Is this on? KERN: Yeah. OLSON: Yeah, okay. Name, Jon Olson. I live in Leilani Estates. Over the years I've spent a fair amount of time in the Sea View area. What I would like to focus on in my testimony is the conditions which are being applied to the SPACE project. The first thing that I would have you look at would be the services that they are providing in the community in terms of services that otherwise should be provided by government. They are providing SPACE for school. Well, given the number of lots and the number of people that currently live in that area, the complex area of Sea View, Kahena, Palisades, the State should have built an elementary school there. Are any of the conditions that are currently being applied or might be applied, would they be applied to an elementary school? Would you limit the capacity of an elementary school, hours of operation? I don't think so. Moving on to the County's responsibility based on the population currently, the County of Hawai‘i should be providing about 8 acres of park to that complex, those three areas. They are not. Would I have a place to have a meeting in the pavilions on my County park? Could I holding a performance in the County park? I certainly could. Would you limit the number of people that came to that performance in the County park? Unlikely. And then we get to the issue of economics. Those, some of those lots down there, some of those subdivisions have been in existence for 40 years. The County of Hawai‘i has taken their tax dollars. And they’re where? There’s not a square foot of complete County Park in any one of those subdivisions. Show me the money. Where did their money go, what are the services? These people are trying to provide services to a community that is grossly underserved in any area you wish to focus on. So I suggest to you that in the name of fairness, if there is any condition that is going to be applied to these people, it should be identical to what would come from a public facility, a public school or a public park, cause that’s what they are doing. Thank you. KERN: All right, thank you. I will ask that, I appreciate the enthusiasm, but let us just try to refrain from applause if we can. Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, said Sativa Jones, name and area in which you live, and then you may begin. JONES: Sure. Good afternoon, Chairman, and good afternoon Commissioners. My name is Sativa Jones. I appreciate this opportunity to speak. I am an almost 20-year resident of Sea View Kalapana 33 EXHIBIT B