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<br />MORANTE: Okay. Aloha mai kākou. Again, my name is Jenizary U‘ilani Morante. I’m currently
<br />a junior at Kua O Ka La. So Kua O Ka La is, as Karley said, is located right next to Ahalanui Park,
<br />or also known as Warm Ponds, and that is a major tourists attraction right there on Red Road, our
<br />Kapoho-Kalapana Road. So for that we have a lot of tourists coming in and out of our school every
<br />day, like tons of them asking for directions and stuff, and always, yeah, when we work in our
<br />fishponds, because we are located on 600 acres of Kamehameha Schools land, which fishponds is
<br />like right there, so we are right there on the ocean, and with that we always go there almost every
<br />day, clean out, do observations on surveys of different types of invertebrates, fishes, all kinds of
<br />different things for science classes and many more stuff. And we always get the experience of people
<br />watching us, because there are always these people. They come over from the Warm Ponds or
<br />Ahalanui Park, and just watch us. They just stand there. They don’t ask questions or anything. They
<br />just stand there, they bust out their cameras, phones, anything, and start taking pictures of us. And
<br />the thing is that we don’t want that, you know, to be like how what Hawaiian charter schools do all
<br />day, because we are a Hawaiian public charter school, so we don’t want to get like, you know,
<br />stereotypes that things like all Hawaiians do that all day and Hawaiians do this all day and blah, blah,
<br />blah. So what we want is a good reputation. So just like for Kahalu‘u Ma Kai, if you guys add the
<br />public access, it will end up kind of like our school, right there on the kai and people and tourists
<br />coming in and out, taking pictures of you guys, well, yeah, while we are trying to learn and get our
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<br />studies of our culture. Mahalo.
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<br />UNGER: Mahalo. Are there any other members of the public that would like to testify on this
<br />agenda item at this time? Please come forward.
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<br />DANIEL: I guess I didn’t make the list.
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<br />UNGER: Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before the Planning
<br />Commission?
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<br />DANIEL: I do.
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<br />UNGER: Please state your name and where you reside.
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<br />DANIEL: My name is Faye Daniel. I live in Kona and I’m representing the Daughters of Hawai‘i.
<br />The Daughters of Hawai‘i have worked very closely with the Kamehameha Schools in the
<br />development of this plan. The Daughters of Hawai‘i were formed in 1903 by six Presbyterian
<br />ministers’ wives, and their mission is to promote the culture and the language of the islands. That
<br />said, we are in full cooperation with what the Kamehameha Schools are doing here. We have sat in
<br />meetings with them over the past five years. We’ve looked at the plans. They’ve asked and accepted
<br />a lot of our input. And we feel that this particular site and the culture that goes along with it needs to
<br />be not only preserved but there has to be some kind of restriction on it. The Constitution of the State
<br />of Hawai‘i, in Article IX, Section 7 and Section 9 talk about the conservation and development of the
<br />culture and the preservation of the cultural heritage sites. We understand fully how important ocean
<br />access is. But also, even greater than that, and I think this is where the discussion is pivotal, are you
<br />going to allow free access over the historical preservation and the cultural practices of this particular
<br />site? Are you going to overlook the protocol that goes along with your approaching, when you
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