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MARTIN: In this particular project, I, I locate the site location. I do all the real estate to acquire
<br />the property. I do all the permitting and, that’s pretty much it.
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<br />NISHIMOTO: Okay, and is there any design criteria in that Verizon looks at when they are
<br />searching for an optimal site?
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<br />MARTIN: So, just to start from the beginning how the process works is I get a project issued to
<br />me, and if they give me a map, that map gives me circles. They call them search rings on a map,
<br />and recently, they used to be big rings, now we laughingly call them search dots cause they’re so
<br />small. Technology’s changed so much. But they give me a search ring on there that tells me
<br />where the optimal location is, and I go into the community and use my experience and
<br />knowledge about where, where might be appropriate. I always try to start with a community
<br />association as I did with this one. I—the first day when I hit the ground, I stopped in with
<br />Ainaloa Community Association and spoke to Board members, and tried to get some
<br />recommendations from them. But, the first thing that we really look at is we try to co-locate on
<br />existing towers. We try to get away from installing new towers all together, so we look for tall
<br />buildings. We look for existing towers—any kind of structure really that would be suitable.
<br />And, I did have, I did see one existing structure, and that was a T-Mobile flagpole located at the
<br />Ainaloa Community Association, and that was not in, that would not provide the coverage. We
<br />already have coverage in that area, so I was told by the radio frequency engineer that designed
<br />the project that, that wouldn’t work.
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<br />NISHIMOTO: And, after did you further explore any other alternative sites?
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<br />MARTIN: Yes, I actually did quite a few. When I first started with the Association, they, one of
<br />the Board members had said why, why don’t you do it at my house, so we went and looked at
<br />that. That’s on Ginger Lane. And, then also the Association said, hey, we’ve got big parcels
<br />throughout the subdivision. Why don’t you do it there, and that sounded like a good idea to me,
<br />so we actually went down that path. So, we called, actually, we were going to go forward on, on
<br />the Ainaloa Community Park location. I think that was the first one that we started. And, so, I
<br />got the okay from Verizon Wireless. I submitted my feasibility report, and they said, yes, that
<br />looked like it would work. So, we started down that. I ordered the title report, and I found that
<br />there was a company—a mainland company—that had an exclusive easement for
<br />telecommunication purposes for all the common areas of Ainaloa Association. Called them
<br />back, the Association, and asked them about that. And they did—they were not aware that
<br />they’d sign away their rights to that. They thought they were only signing for the T-Mobile
<br />tower location, but in fact, they had signed away everything, so I called them and said, you
<br />know, we’d like to lease some area, space from you, and then they gave me some super high
<br />rent, and I said, we’re talking, we’re not talking about New York City. We’re talking about an
<br />area that, you know, that doesn’t have, you know, it’s a very rural area, and they can’t support a
<br />high rent there, so we had to walk away from that. And then we went to, the next, then that’s
<br />when the Board of Directors said well, how about my house, its right next to the park. Okay,
<br />we’ll try and do that one. So we were gonna go down that path and really started on that. We
<br />started to do drawings so that we could bring them to you, for your consideration. And then she
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