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softball games if people park on the side of the roads. Do we shut down the Post Office? <br />Because when it gets busy people park on the side of the road. I know this sounds ridiculous but <br />it is exactly what we’re talking about. Do we shut down the churches because funerals and <br />weddings, they don’t have enough parking, and they park on Māmalahoa Highway? For 30 years <br />nobody has made a complaint and they continue on. I don’t want to get frustrated with this but <br />we can’t do much more than do that. <br /> <br />Then I went and talked to people within Ranchos, cause from the, we have Ranchos residents that <br />are vendors in this little swap meet. We have Ranchos residents that park along the side of the <br />road. I have spoken with them, and they basically have said I pay mine, I can park along the side <br />of the road. A few individuals that volunteered for a Road Committee cannot make the decisions <br />for me. I don’t really know what else to do. I can tell you from my point of view and the history <br />of this. This supports directly a few hundred people, indirectly probably 1,000 in our little area. <br />We don’t have much else going on there. We have a population that over 80 percent is on some <br />sort of subsidy, be it Federal, County or State. It’s probably over 90 percent. <br /> <br />This is my philosophy – I am there to support my community. Hawai‘i is my home. Big Island is <br />my island. And Ka‘u is my community. We take no income. We support from this little <br />shopping center and, additional, we support the keiki fishing tournaments in Milolii. We support <br />the keiki fishing family tournaments in Punalu‘u. We support the Hana Hou Christmas party <br />where every family gets a meal, every child gets a present. We support various other <br />organizations, including the hospital, the handicap van that’s there. We are doing positive things <br />for our community. It is my belief that the private sector has that obligation. We don’t go to the <br />government, we don’t go to the County. We support our community; and we do it very quietly. <br /> <br />I’m not a big fan of being here, to be honest with you. But I think the voice has to be heard. We <br />have met every requirement by the County, the Health Department, we keep it open as a <br />community issue from the will of the people. I don’t know when the negative minority voice <br />became the overriding voice, instead of the quiet majority of the community; and that is the case <br />here. I have tried every way I can to work with a few individuals who have accepted positions, <br />and I applaud their ability and their sense of civic duty to go on these committees and do that. I <br />applaud them for doing that. But there’s an old adage that anybody can stir a pot but few can <br />cook. And I don’t mean to be negative toward them, but the only cooking that we’ve seen up <br />there has been plenty of pilikia and hakaka for the community. And the easy fix would have been <br />for them to go talk to their own members of Ranchos of which we are, we own, I don’t know, 10 <br />or 12 lots in there. Go talk to your neighbors and say, hey, kokua, go park in this open parking <br />area, we don’t want you to park on the side of the road. Instead of that we spend all this time <br />here and they continue to do this with the thumb. I’m trying to lift the community. Now I don’t <br />know what to begin from this. Frankly if the swap meet goes, it takes away a lot of my <br />headaches; but I think that is a very wrong way to go. And I think I’ve said all I need to. Thank <br />you for your time. <br /> <br />4 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br /> <br /> <br />