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<br />MCELVANEY: I’m Jon E. McElvaney, Post Office Box 1080, Volcano, Hawai‘i. <br /> <br />KUWAHARA: Bryson Kuwahara, 1142 Kaumana Drive. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Go ahead. You can say whatever you want. <br /> <br />MCELVANEY: Okay. I’m, when we started this project a couple of years ago one of the things <br />we were concerned about was the health, safety and welfare of the people in the region. That’s <br />why we really concentrated on the traffic situation. Studying all four intersections, could you put <br />up a map of the site plan? <br /> <br />As you can see, the main intersection we’re concerned with is right there where we offered to put <br />in the signal light. The next one is Malama Market Intersection, which is going to be changed <br />now. And the other one is the Bypass Road and Old Pāhoa Village Road, the most dangerous <br />intersection. Then coming down here that’s the Kahakai Boulevard Bypass Road Intersection <br />which there have been no accidents in the last couple of years. But all of these intersections <br />needed to be studied; and we actually revised and studied this for the last two years. That’s how <br />we ended up with the idea of supporting a signal light there. And this is before we knew the <br />roundabout was going to go in. So we had tried to figure out how to mitigate each one of these <br />intersections prior to the roundabout. Luckily the roundabout came along because that really <br />took care of the problems that we saw on those two intersections. So, I don’t know if you saw <br />the roundabout diagram. No? No? Well, I don’t know if we need to bring that out. But up in <br />the north part, the curve there by Longs, oh, okay -. Okay, on the north part of the diagram, <br />actually the Bypass Road and Old Pāhoa Village Road, that is where the roundabout is going to <br />go. It actually is going to leave a portion of the palms. I don’t know if you’re familiar with that <br />area, but when you turn there’s some beautiful palms right there before you go into Malama <br />market. That portion is going to be left. And so just to, almost parallel or just north of Longs <br />there will be a roundabout there. So traffic will come, when they’re coming from Hilo now, they <br />will be able to turn, go straight, and turn right into Malama Market without going -. It’s just a <br />straight right-turn in. Coming out they’ll have to go up on the roundabout, or they can turn right <br />and go straight down into Pāhoa town. So all of this has been -. <br /> <br />HEAUKULANI: Excuse me. This is important enough –. Could you use the pointer so that <br />everyone could track where you’re -. <br /> <br />MCELVANEY: Okay. <br /> <br />HEAUKULANI: What you’re talking about, please. <br /> <br />MCELVANEY: Okay. <br /> <br />HEAUKULANI: Thank you. <br /> <br />MCELVANEY: How does thing work. Okay, yeah. So the roundabout is going to go right <br />about there. This has never been opened before. Usually the traffic had to come and turn right <br />here to get into Malama Market, which required two intersections to go through, which was <br />6 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />