September 28, 2016 DRAFT SC Minutes

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4. Guo Jee, representing Hawaii Potato Farm, speaking on the agenda item of Hakalau: Hello everyone. My name is Guo, a farmer in Hakalau side for about twenty years. I live in Hakalau and a farmer about twenty years. I plant potatoes. I know potato business industrial in the Hdmdkua side. I see today - every year we get about 1000 acres of potatoes growing — over 90% of the product we ship to the US Mainland. Only 10% we keep for Hawaii. I see now that - farmers have at least 300 people working for sweet potatoes —workers and farmers. The potatoes that we ship to the mainland need treatment. So in the industrial - recent 10 years the available lot, much more than before — the market on the mainland, we ship to California. All farmers there we shaking for price. /say Okinawan potato for whole USA only can grow on Hdmdkua side. We tried Honolulu, we tried mainland, we tried Kauai, we tried Maui... all other farmers fail. All other places, land is not good for Okinawan potatoes. Okinawan potato only grow in the Hdmdkua side. Supposed to be we can get more money back to the farmers but now we no more processing plant so we really neInweecoarn ing plant in the Hdmdkua side. Hakalau point is Hdmdkua center we got good countthis area and we get all farmers close to the Hakalau side — all farmers around Hakalmers we need industrial for processing potatoes and the value added production. T send to the mainland or the market. Can get more and more money for the farmers — right now industrial can bring to Hawai'i over 10 million dollars, over 10 million, maybe 15 million. We increased so many jobs for our community — treatment plant, transportation company all get their jobs from potato farm. So for me/ wish to keep the industrial zoning on,the open processing plant. Thank you. 11, 5. Alwin Raymond, representing A&S Fencing, speaking on the agenda item of promoting the Hakalau Project: Hi, my name is Alwin Raymond. /own a business— a fencing business and — and also cattle. Ido cattle. I'm also partners with Steve Shropshire in the cattle business. I'm for Hakalau, which is — I would like to see business grow in there. You know... hopefully we can get a butchery going over there so we can get grass fed beef going on the island and sell local and keep all the money on local grounds, you know and — and that's about it. 6. Carol Weldon, representing herself on agenda item regarding a specific tax map key item: My name's Carol Weldon. I'm representing my husband and myself, he could not be here tonight, on designated parcel tax map key 3-5-004:003 on page six. It was taken up in the Hakalau agenda on the 10th. We were unaware that that was gonna be posted on that agenda that day or we would've been there. My husband and I are both from farming backgrounds, generations back. When we came to the Hakalau community, we did a 10-31 exchange and purchased an 11 parcel piece of —11 acre parcel piece of land which is located on the ocean and Kihalani Stream. On that piece of par — land, the reason we purchased it is it had 6.2 acres of Macadamia Nut trees and many, many Palm trees. Having that farming background that was exactly what fit our agenda for retirement. We immediately hired one of the families in the community. He had just been laid off from the sugar cane industry. He was supporting four young children with no job. He has been in our employment for 22 years. We have maintained an agricultural Macadamia Nut farm. I have tax records to support that, all the way back to 1995. You are welcome to review those records. We'll be glad to support them to you. We have sold Macadamia Nuts. We have donated Macadamia Nuts. We've employed other people in his family on our property. As far as I know, there is no cultural value on our property. In 22 years, I've never found even a rock or anything that looked Hawaiian culture. We have a 250 - Page 14