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organization excluding community members. There is no outreach to our community anymore. <br />It would be good if we had a user-friendly association that would reach out to the 4,000 lot <br />owners and try and encourage everybody to come together, but that’s not what is happening. <br />And that’s why they’re in litigation. <br /> <br />HENKEL: I’m a member of a, you know, small community with a similar situation, and what I <br />found is they, the members of the board, the property owners’ association--our bylaws mandate <br />that we have elections, but you know who it is? It’s the ones that show up and do the work, and <br />you say a group of 20 has taken over. I look at it as a group of 20 are the ones that are stepping <br />up and doing what they need to do for the community. <br /> <br />TITA: But that’s not what’s happening. The group of 20 that’s taken over is not a group that is <br />congenial to the rest of the community. We have people coming, and some of them that are <br />homeless from downtown, the park down here, I know because I work down there. I see ‘em. <br />And they come up and we have problems, instances where that their little gatherings at one of <br />those little markets, they actually were selling marijuana plants. We’ve had admitted by the <br />group themselves that there was dope use going on there. That they broke up fights. So, this is <br />not a group that is working for the community. It’s a group that has become self serving and <br />what they do what they like, that’s what I call it. <br /> <br />MIYASATO: Any further questions, Commissioners? No? Thank you. Commissioners, any <br />discussion on this? <br /> <br />HENKEL: Is there any way we can allow the event to happen conditionally until it’s resolved <br />because I feel like the whole community is being punished by not allowing it to happen. This <br />would be for Margaret, I guess. <br /> <br />MASUNAGA: But you know what? I thought--didn’t you say that it was continuing? <br /> <br />TITA: They have continued to put up tents and then there’s been blockage of the highway. <br />They had some free food thing taking place and it just, yeah, it’s continued off and on <br />unchecked. <br /> <br />MASUNAGA: I would—I don’t know if you were at the meeting in February, but the attorney <br />for the Planning Director was here, Bill Brilhante, and he testified or he said that if you as a <br />Commission do pass any motion, it may be void because of the pending Board of Ethics hearing <br />th <br />which is I believe July 16. Is that correct? <br /> <br />DARROW: Correct. <br /> <br />MASUNAGA: So, given what Mr. Brilhante said before, I would believe that, that would still <br />be the stance of the Planning Director. <br /> <br />KANUHA: Mr. Chairman, perhaps I might add to that. The key component here is that there is <br />a request by a member of the public to be admitted as a party in a contested case proceeding, <br />okay, and so that is what the Commission has to make their first decision on, whether or not to <br />5 <br />EXHIBIT F <br /> <br /> <br />