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dollar for the bike. It’s much less than, let’s say, on the 48 states, or actually 49 states, I’m sure, for bus fares. Now about two weeks ago I was over in West Hawai‘i, and I took several buses between Pepe‘ekeō and Kailua-Kona, and I had a rectangular prismatic shaped kitty litter bucket. And it’s within the limits. And none of the drivers said anything, but one did. He said well, it’s a dollar for that. And I carry a tape measure with me just to avoid this. And he didn’t want to take the time to measure it, because I keep it down in the bottom, so I would have to empty the whole thing. And that’s just a delaying tactic on my part, to make it inconvenient to do so. But I don’t know if you’re able to make recommendations, but I would just say that would help with a lot of problems with passengers who can ill afford the dollar extra, if they would formalize it 10 by 16 by 16 inches, which Tom Brown is totally okay with. Or any multiple of that. Let’s say it was—I mean, it could get ridiculous where you’d have a half-inch long round thing, I don’t know how many feet long, but anyway, I don’t know if that even applies to this. But just as an aside, I was the one who happened to read it on the agenda and informed the complainant about today’s agenda listing. So thank you very much for your patience and your attention. <br /> <br /> Mr. Balsis called up Kerri Marks, who had signed up to testify on agenda item 5a. <br /> <br />MS. MARKS: Good morning, thank you. Mostly I wanted to support what Jerry and Dan said, specifically what Jerry said about the notices being inadequate. I have also told petitioners that they were on the agenda for today, and they had no idea. In the past, when we heard Mr. Blas’—Mr. Blas’ lying on County Council--the petitioners had no idea that it was being heard that day. They heard because it was on my email list. So I think you need to look at how notices are done. Even--I would like to point out that only three of the five board members are here today. So perhaps there’s a problem with those notices, too, or they just don’t think that this is important enough to show up at. Mr. Ishibashi was across the hall at the 30-meter telescope hearing all day yesterday. He had time for that, but he doesn’t—oh, wait, he’s not on this board, is he. Okay, never mind, never mind, retract. <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: There’s only three of us. <br /> <br />MS. MARKS: There’s only three of you? How’s there only three—I thought there was five? <br /> <br />MS. SCHOEN: We’re waiting for two more to be appointed. <br /> <br />MS. MARKS: Oh, okay, thank you, thank you. Okay, well that helps very much. Thank you. But either way, the notices are still lacking, because the petitioners don’t know this is on. Clearly, the people that are being petitioned against don’t know that they’re on, because Mr. Kenoi has never made an appearance here. Rarely do the people that are being complained against make an appearance here. And I understand that you can’t compel them to be here, but it might be a good idea to invite them formally with some sort of official notice, and then announce at the meeting that they were invited to come and then chose not to. Then it’s at least on the record that they knew they were supposed to be here and chose not to. And that’s important, because last time we were here in