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<br />KERN: Okay, your three minutes begins now. <br /> <br />YAGONG: Thank you. You know, I’m just listening to the discussion and it sounds to me that with <br />this working group headed by Mr. Adler, it sounds to me that the process is -. And by the way he did <br />contact me, He emailed me, he wanted to speak with me as well. So he has done that. But it sounds to <br />me like the process is he’s going to do his due diligence and determine who he speaks to and so forth; <br />and then he’s going to be making a recommendation to the Planning Director, which in turn makes a <br />recommendation to the board in terms of how they go about conducting this health study. I just want <br />to make a recommendation in relation to the, what I mentioned earlier, cause you mentioned this might <br />be a process. I think Mr. Melrose said to me maybe February or so. My recommendation is this, <br />before such time that Mr. Adler makes a recommendation, cause once that recommendation is made it <br />pretty much says this is what I think should take place. I strongly recommend that Mr. Adler, before <br />he makes his recommendation to the Director, that he either, maybe do both, go out to the community <br />and express what his finding is, especially out in Puna. So the people will have an opportunity to hear <br />what this gentleman who has been paid for by taxpayers’s money is going to recommend to the <br /> <br />Director, so that at the same time the people can vet it,or maybe even make recommendation to make <br />the recommendation even better to the Director. I think that should be done. <br /> <br />No. 2, I think he should also come to the Hawai‘i County Council, which I will not be a part of come <br />December. But I think it will be a good opportunity for him to come forward not for action by the <br />Council but as a communication where he can come forward and say here, these are the <br />recommendations that are going to be made in terms of the health study that will be proposed to the <br />Windward Planning Commission. That way it is done in a public setting where people, just like now, <br />will be able to come forward and hear exactly what is going to be proposed, even before it is being <br />proposed. That way by the time it gets to you guys you’ve vetted out a lot of the problems. Because, <br />if not, when it comes to you folks, I’ll tell you this room is going to be pretty packed with people. But <br />if you can iron out those problems ahead of time it will help make the process better, you get better <br />community buy-in, and I think you’ll have a better process. Cause like I said, in the end, if there’s no <br />buy-in, no credibility, then we’re just going to repeat this whole process again. So that’s just a <br />recommendation, sir. <br /> <br />KERN: Thank you, Mr. Yagong. Makes sense, I appreciate it. Any questions for Mr. Yagong, <br />Commissioners? Seeing none -. Okay, Ms. Jones. Ms. Jones, give me your name, area in which you <br />live, how long you’ve lived there, and then you’ll have three minutes. <br /> <br />JONES: Good morning. <br /> <br />KERN: And, actually, I’ve got to swear you in. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the <br />truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? <br /> <br />JONES: I do. <br /> <br />KERN: Okay, very good. <br /> <br />JONES: Aloha. I guess I’m here to lend support to -. <br /> 24 <br /> EXHIBIT C <br /> <br /> <br />