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However, there is a pattern of behavior (as testified by neighbors in the last meeting) that has resulted
<br />in a broken trust. This is a trust that is unlikely to be mended. There has been no testimony, no
<br />specifics given, from Connections administration as to how their use of the land will, in fact, elevate
<br />and improve the surrounding neighborhood. There has only been deflections and obfuscations from
<br />the administration.
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<br />If approved, there will be no oversight during the construction of this school. Because the pattern of
<br />behavior has been lacking from the Connections administration, neighbors will be forced to wonder if
<br />regulations are being followed in an ethical and appropriate manner. Neighbors will feel forced in
<br />being the permit, land use, and ethics police.
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<br />As the Windward Planning Commission, please hear the Kaumana community, who will be most
<br />impacted and the ones condemned to endure increase in traffic and utilization of resources by this
<br />project. Connections have had years to get “all the ducks in a row”. They have not. Please deny the
<br />continuance and deny this project. The Kaumana Community should not have to make allowances for
<br />the Connections administrators poor planning. Thank you. Dr. Ming Pen.
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<br />AU: Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Okay, moving on to Arnold Fergerstrom. Please
<br />state your name, where you reside, and you have three minutes.
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<br />FERGERSTROM: My name is Arnold Fergerstrom. I live in the Kaumana Area, 1065 Kaumana
<br />Drive. I’ve lived in the Kaumana area, as well as with my family, from when we were about four
<br />years old running around. And this development again is something I’m against because when I was
<br />growing up in the area about 12 years old, 11 years old, my mom used to take us to school. And she
<br />always used to say Wing Kong Chong, you vote for Wing Kong Chong. And what happened is
<br />somebody was taking care of things besides Wing Kong Chong. She said Wing Kong Chong is going
<br />to make everything better for us because they’re going to build a complex for basketball, and baseball,
<br />and all for the subdivisions. They make all these promises about development and they’re going to
<br />take care of the public first. But never came through yet. The roads up there have not been improved.
<br />We called it a skinny trail when we were small.
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<br />And I’ve worked throughout the island; and I feel that the best service that can be done for this school
<br />is to do it in the area of Keaau. Because Keaau, the value of land is not real high. You have Fire
<br />Department, you have Police Department, you have all these things right in the area of Keaau. I work
<br />in Keaau, they have lot of land, all that land on top. That little land that you’re talking about 70 acres
<br />is a little scratch besides, of the land we do have. So we have, already we have the Fire Department,
<br />Police Department, all situated where they’re working out of, and we have room over there. And I
<br />think that’s where it should be made and done, and it would service the community.
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<br />And I never heard anything about our value of our land after they make this thing. You know, they
<br />have, when you pay your taxes, they tell you pay so much or you lose your land, yeah? I haven’t
<br />heard, maybe I missed a meeting, but I never heard anything about who cares about the people that -.
<br />Me, I get land in Kaumana. I buy, I bust my okoloe, take care. And I like my kids get place to come.
<br />That’s my prerogative I think as one citizen to go buy the land and say, you know, I going buy this
<br />land for my kids because I like them, when I old, they can take me, do things, this and that and what
<br />have you. No such thing now because it’s, you never can count on keeping the land. You might as
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