2014-03-20 Leeward Exh A (SPP 14-157)

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GIFFIN: You’re welcome. Commissioners, any other questions of staff? Hearing none, I’d like to call the applicant forward, please. Jeff, we need one more chair. She got it, they got it. Good morning. Starting from, oh, before we go any further, I think it’s appropriate for me to disclose that the young man sitting on the left, or the right of Billy Moore, is a distant relative of mine; his mother, Lei, and I were first cousins. So I just thought I would bring that out and put it on the record. Starting with you then, Norman, will you please identify yourself, and then I’ll have all of you swear. PIIANAIA: Good morning, Madam Chair. Aloha, everybody, Members of the Planning Commission. GIFFIN: Good morning. Aloha. PIIANAIA: My name is Norman Piianaia. I am the chairman of the Board of Na Kālai Wa‘a, this 501(c)(3). GIFFIN: Thank you. DIRCKS AH SAM: Aloha mai kākou. My name is Lehua Dircks Ah Sam. I am the program coordinator for Na Kālai Wa‘a. GIFFIN: Good morning. CASE: Aloha mai. I’m Keōmailani Case, and I’m the secretary of the Board. I’m also the senior resource manager for Na Kālai Wa‘a. GIFFIN: Good morning. Bill? MOORE: My name is Bill Moore. I’m the paid consultant on this. I want you to know, I haven’t been paid yet, but my payment is a crew T-shirt. I’m waiting. GIFFIN: And my cousin? BERTELMANN: My name is Milton Bertelmann, and I’m the vice president for Na Kālai Wa‘a. GIFFIN: Thank you. I need you all to swear. So please raise your right hands. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Leeward Hawai‘i County Planning Commission? REPRESENTATIVES: I do. GIFFIN: Thank you. Bill, are you going to be the lead, or Norman? MOORE: I think Norman, just a -. GIFFIN: Norman. You may want to give us some more background information that Jeff perhaps did not cover in his presentation. And, see, it’s my understanding that the gulch was going to be used for part of the ethno, the garden. Not? 4 EXHIBIT A