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your right hands, please. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the <br />Planning Commission? <br /> <br />TRAVIS/SHAW/HARDEN: I do. <br /> <br />DEDMAN: You guys raise your right hand, too? <br /> <br />HEAUKULANI: So, is that a yes? You do swear or affirm to tell the truth? <br /> <br />DEDMAN: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. <br /> <br />HEAUKULANI: Thank you, sir. <br /> <br />DEDMAN: Wish you guys would do the same. <br /> <br />HEAUKULANI: Please have a seat. Let’s see. First on the list is Tom Travis. Sir, could you <br />please state your full name for the record. Tell us where you reside, speak clearly in the <br />microphone if you would, and try to limit your testimony to three minutes. <br /> <br />TRAVIS: My name is Tom Travis. I reside at on Papaya Farms Road in Kapoho. My full name <br />—did I give that? I’m Thomas Lee Travis. <br /> <br />HEAUKULANI: You did, Tom. Thanks. <br /> <br />TRAVIS: I was—first, before I start, I would like to make it clear that this is my testimony and <br />not Puna Pono Alliance’s. That, Puna Pono Alliance’s testimony will be given later. <br /> <br />I was the contact point for the Applicants that was to work with the Planning Department to try <br />to resolve this issue, and I want to make it clear from the beginning before I start my testimony <br />that I have been asked to do nothing in a year. In fact, 15 months. Nothing. Zero. <br /> <br />So, I understand that there—I understand the discussion, and I appreciate the problems of <br />legality and the government, but I want it clear that we haven’t been asked to do anything, so we <br />are at the same place we were on March, in March exactly without anything. We’ve had <br />discussions and in every discussion I asked, is there something you want me to do, and the <br />answer was always no. I offered to help write an RFP. <br /> <br />One request that I did make was I asked that the Planning Department use the same procedures <br />to justify spending money for this study that had been used for the over a million dollars of <br />studies that the Mayor’s office has done using exactly the same fund. Now, I understand that <br />they may be more in depth at the procedures than we are, but it would seem that we could follow <br />the same procedures. <br /> <br />I am very concerned that the Geothermal Asset Fund has become a slush fund to which the <br />community has no access. As three of us that were on the Adler group, all told them that we <br /> <br />8 <br />EXHIBIT E <br /> <br /> <br />