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<br />UNGER: Thank you. Kei-Lin Cerf, Ms. Kirkpatrick, Forrest Henriques and Thomas Brennon. <br />Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before the Planning <br />Commission? <br /> <br />TESTIFIERS: I do. Yes. <br /> <br />UNGER: Please state your name and where you reside. <br /> <br />BRENNON: My name is Tom Brennon and I reside in Pāhoa, Puna. <br /> <br />KIRKPATRICK: My name is Sandra Kirkpatrick and I reside in Waikoloa. <br /> <br />HENRIQUES: My name is Forrest Henriques and I reside in Puna. <br /> <br />CERF: My name is Kei-Lin Cerf, from Waikoloa. <br /> <br />UNGER: Thank you. You may begin. <br /> <br />BRENNON: All right. I’d like to, as an educator, and a majority of these students are our students <br />who have been involved in working with Kamehameha Schools in the projects of Kahalu‘u Ma Kai. <br />Our first involvement started eight years ago and – gee, I was watching the three-minute cards go and <br />it goes too fast – so basically what I would like to say is that the work that has been done here on this <br />side for our students has been very successful. We have a program now that involves middle <br />schoolers up to seniors in high school. And it’s all because of the opportunity that was given to us to <br />come over here and to participate in the educational vision that is being talked about today. And the <br />vision now extends for us to actually have something of the past, this hotel, to be torn down, and to <br />actually create something for the future. And I’d like to say that we’ve heard a lot historically, we <br />talked about the present, and what is before you today is the future. And my concern is that the <br />Commission would not recognize the fact that this is truly an educational site, it is truly a place of <br />learning. It has helped so many of our students, and I foresee that something like this continues and <br />should continue. And if we are really talking about the future, this is a great opportunity for us to <br />make a great decision and to move forward. I would like to see that there be some control in the <br />areas where education is going to be performed because education needs the type of security. We <br />talk about safety, one of the first things we talk about for sure with all our students is safety of our <br />students, and that means safety on all levels. And having the right boundary set is ideal for those <br />kinds of things. We, as coming over from Puna, have been taught the right protocols, which protects, <br />and I feel has protected all our students on all the work we’ve done in all these places, and it’s <br />because of the caring of the community of Kahalu‘u, and I’d like to see it continue. Thank you. <br /> <br />KIRKPATRICK: Hi, I’m Sandra Kirkpatrick and my concern is about the access. And it seems like <br />there is quite a discrepancy within the Kamehameha Schools presentation about where the <br />boundaries, let alone the access, really is. And I haven’t heard anything to reassure me that that’s <br />resolved. So, I believe on the map we saw the three different lines where they thought the shoreline <br />actually was, so to determine the public access to the shoreline, which I think is a right that everyone <br />in Hawai‘i appreciates and understands and is well accepted in general, I think this obviously is <br />16 <br />EXHIBIT B <br /> <br />