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purposes, all of the rest of the roads, all of the property owners are tenants in common. It’s in
<br />their Deed. If Ms. Tita is unhappy with her road, she should get out there with her shovel and fix
<br />it. She owns it. As do all of the other members of the Association. Basically, the people who
<br />show up on Saturdays and Sundays are all property owners of basically what is a closed and
<br />private group. They are allowed to bring guests as you might have mentioned. So, you know,
<br />this is, this has gotten a little weird, frankly. The issue with the fire, the volunteer fire station?
<br />Well, it wasn’t supposed to have plumbing. It wasn’t supposed to have electrical. Somebody
<br />put it in, they took it out. The building was never intended to have either plumbing or electrical
<br />in it. So, and it was okay because the County provided the money to build the fire station. The
<br />County provided the money for the water tank for emergency response petition--purposes. So,
<br />all of those things that are being addressed here, the road easements there. They are easements.
<br />They’re not roads. Those are property easements owned by the property owners. They’re
<br />40-foot wide, and the property owners determine to what width they are maintained. Some of
<br />them are barely 10-foot wide; some of them are not passable. Where the community, community
<br />association building sits, you have a full 40-foot wide easement. So, anyway, I hope something
<br />can happen. These poor people have just been through an awful lot here. Thank you.
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<br />MIYASATO: Mr. Fulks.
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<br />FULKS: My name is Ole’. I live at 16-689 Auli‛i Street, and well I don’t speak no legalese, but
<br />I was the—I would say for the first two years of the HARC or Hawaiian Acres Road
<br />Corporation’s existence, I was on the board. The second year, I was president. So, the road
<br />situation in Hawaiian Acres is not new to me. The farmers market? Well, I was a vendor there
<br />for quite a few years until it closed down, and there was hardly ever more than six vendors. It
<br />has never been a big market, and the vendors never made a lot of money. There wasn’t, that
<br />wasn’t the purpose of the market, to make money. It was to build community. That’s what
<br />we’ve been working on in Hawaiian Acres. That there, at the community center, building
<br />community. Now, as to the road being closed, at least for the time that the market was opened,
<br />the road was never closed, but if you know subdivision roads, you know, like they’re kinda of
<br />one lane a lot of times, and you gotta kind of pull over when somebody else comes along and
<br />wait for a second till they go by. I mean, that’s how we are there. That’s politeness. So, yes,
<br />Susann might have been delayed for a moment when someone else was coming along so she may
<br />be you know, had to wait for a minute and didn’t go, but the road was never ever blocked. You
<br />see, I had some other things, and now it’s flying out of my mind. Maybe I better just stop right
<br />there. Aloha.
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<br />MIYASATO: Could I have Jamae Kawauchi and Susann Tita come up? You both are still
<br />under oath, so you can go ahead and testify.
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<br />TITA: I appreciate Ole’ speaking his mind, but it was on two different occasions, the Police had
<br />to be called to ask him to directly move his truck from blocking the road deliberately. So, the
<br />roads are not 40-feet wide. As you can see, they are single lane, and when you’ve got cars on
<br />either side, you’re not gonna get through. It isn’t a moment you have to wait. It’s a while. And
<br />if it isn’t the cars that you have to worry about, it’s the kids or their pets. And they took it to a
<br />whole other level by actually putting that market right on the road so there were plants and things
<br />that they were trying to sell on the road. When I asked him and attended several of those
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