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<br />SIMPSON (Randy): Oh-- <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Okay, if you can—okay, you can hang on— <br /> <br />AUDIENCE (Perkins): --I don’t know if you-- <br /> <br />SIMPSON (Randy): Oh, sorry I think this is one of our neighbors but I think you’re going to call <br />her up to speak shortly. <br /> <br />AUDIENCE (Perkins): Do I have to come up then? <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Yeah, try hang on. Thank you. Is there any questions of our applicants <br />Commissioners? Seeing no questions, and you okay with the conditions? <br /> <br />SIMPSON (Randy): Yes. <br /> <br />MIKKELSON: Go for it. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Okay, you may be seated. <br /> <br />MIKKELSON: Thank you. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Okay, anyone wishing to testify on the public hearing besides Sheree Perkins? <br />Sheree, if you can come up, please? Thank you-- <br /> <br />PERKINS: Good morning. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: --for coming this morning—. You can use the mike when you speak, please. If <br />you could state your name and address for the record. <br /> <br />PERKINS: My name is Sheree Perkins, 29-3812 Pueo‘ihi. My husband, Norman and I, own the <br />farm directly below the Simpsons. And Norman is on the mainland or he would be here. So I <br />am representing us. <br /> <br />When we met the Simpsons, the property was in disarray. We’ve watched it go from old cane <br />land to individual farmers trying taro to trash trees to now invasive bamboo. There was over <br />four acres of invasive bamboo that was heading towards our farm. So, when the previous owners <br />decided to sell, they just bit off more than they could chew. Had the farm idea both with full- <br />time jobs, could not take care of the property. When we found out the Simpsons were interested, <br />and Norman was speaking with Randy, the first thing he asked him was if you buy this property, <br />I will hold you accountable for the bamboo. They bought the property. Within a few weeks, he <br />had a tractor. He has completely cleared almost five acres of invasive bamboo, and Hulili Farms <br />is safe. That was our main concern. Randy and Alison really have worked hard. They don’t <br />have a white picket fence dream of Hawai‘i. They know how to get out there and sweat. We <br />lived here three years before local farmers talked to us and stopped by and said okay, we’ll stick, <br />you know how to work. These people know how to work. They’ll do it right. They have hotel <br />4 <br />EXHIBIT C <br /> <br /> <br />