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TERRY: I’m Ron Terry, and I’m, my address is 10 Hina Street, Hilo, Hawai‘i. I am the
<br />consultant for the environmental assessment, SMA and SSV for this project.
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<br />WHITTEMORE: Thank you. Do you want to proceed with your presentation on this or any
<br />further comment you might have with respect to staff’s presentation?
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<br />TERRY: Maybe, Russell, you can explain —
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<br />WHITTEMORE: If you could speak into the mike, please.
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<br />TERRY: Russell, you could explain the purpose and need of the project.
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<br />KUMABE: Sure. I think Jeff had pretty much summarized the project before you very well. The
<br />intent of, I guess, what it’s called Phase Two of our project basically is to just make improvements
<br />to our existing facilities. A lot of the CIP projects in which I kind of oversee, we try to address
<br />public health and safety issues first, and then add on what else is needed at the parks that we have.
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<br />In case for this project over here in both areas it was identified that the existing facilities, for
<br />example at Mahai‘ula we needed to at least provide some means to address motor roadway
<br />conditions, the entry road coming in, and we will still keep the roadway unpaved, but we need to
<br />kind of address some of the really bad deteriorated areas, which is part of this project. And also
<br />we had seen a need where there was some unsafe conditions happening kind of on the entry road
<br />as you hit, right before you hit Mahai‘ula-Makalawena Trail intersection so to say for the lack of
<br />better reference. There’s cars just parking pretty much on the sides of the road, a lot of people
<br />wanting to use these areas. So we decided to at least for safety purposes kind of expand the
<br />shoulder areas of these roadways, so at least if anything, vehicles can be stored or parked kind of
<br />away from the main corridor of the entry road, and also more so people be kept in a safe distance
<br />away from vehicles and such. As far as for the facilities at Mahai‘ula, as Jeff had noted, the new
<br />facility we would be putting in is a staff storage area. And the intent for this is just to help our
<br />staff, improve our services for the facilities we have there. A big element to that is putting in a
<br />small water tank, which would basically be used for staff; at least they’ll able to have a water
<br />supply to clean the bathrooms, clean the surrounding areas. And whatever water is not used, and
<br />it would be pretty much used, staff would be using buckets of that, would be dumped into the
<br />vault toilets, which gets pumped out. So nothing, as far as the operational side, is intended to
<br />impact any of the surrounding areas, and our staff will make note that they will follow proper
<br />operational maintenance type of procedures. The other facilities that Jeff had identified, the
<br />barbecue pits and things of that effect, that’s to provide at least additional facilities especially for
<br />those requiring accessibility requirements, and fixing up the barbecue pits that we do have, and
<br />also for the accessibility part providing an additional picnic table to at least accommodate those
<br />that can come down to the Mahai‘ula site. So as far as Mahai‘ula, basically the new stuff would
<br />be the staff structures and basically the new picnic table and the barbecue pits, fixing up the
<br />existing, and also we want to fix up the vault toilets that we have. We are not going to replace
<br />vault toilets; we are going to be keeping them, but we need to fix them up. And some of the stuff
<br />we would be doing is at least providing maybe more ambient light, replace the roofing, maybe get
<br />more light coming in, because we don’t have any power out there. So at least it becomes a more
<br />kind of safer-type, or more convenient, facility for folks to use.
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