September 28, 2016 DRAFT SC Minutes

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they were here at the same time we all were. I — I started my life in Hawaii on Oahu. I'm a Navy brat. I left, I came back 25 years ago now and it just— it's just troubling to me. Anyway, thank you very much. 9. Michelle Betz, representing herself, speaking on Hakalau Point: I don't need a mic. I'm just gonna take a few seconds. I guess, I'm just kind of learning about all of this stuff and I think my biggest concern is essentially this issue of rezoning or reclassification or re -designation of an individual's property to some other designation and it concerns me as a property owner along this coast. How is this gonna affect me? Am I the next in line? C y —somebody wants to classify my property as Open, I really, it scares me quite frankwanted to get that on the record. Thanks very much. 10. Earl Fujikawa, representing developer and Hakalau Point: GoodMy name is Earl Fujikawa and I'm from Hilo originally. At the age of 15, 1 movgd to the Mainland — the San Francisco Bay Area. I lived therefor 30 years then ventureetto Seattle. All through the years, I've seen so many kids moving from Hawaii to Ye Mainland Why? No jobs. Steve has a good idea. This is the reason why I'm here. I live in Volcano. I dro e all the way here to tell you people follow Steve. His intention is good, providing jobs. If you don't have a jo, the kids not coming back. All/ can say is follow Steve for the good intentions. Thank you. Some of you know who I am. I am the grandson of KTA and when I was living in San Francisco, I flew back to HGwai'i. I created the Mountain Apple brand to help the people of Hawaii. Thank you. 11. John Fitzgerald, representing Steve Shropshire, speaking on Hakalau Point: Good evening. My name is John Fitzgerald. 1 just wanted to throw a little historical perspective on Hakalau Point. moved — born and raised on Molokai and I moved to the Mainland with my (inaudible) over there when I was fifteen. I came back in 1969 and went to work for C. Brewer & Company as a mechanic (inaudible) management trainee. I went to work for Pepe'ekeo sugar in 1970 and Hakalau was a bustling community. There must've4been at least 200 homes in the Hakalau area. Hakalau School was vibrant. Wailea was a bustling community. The whole Hdmdkua Coast with the Hawaii sugar industry was a very — a very active, very bustling place. And what I've seen in my lifetime, which has only been 74 years but anyway, when I was a little boy, we could open the — the window of life and you could look out and you could say to yourself, 'Gee, what do I wanna do when I graduate from high school? What do I wanna do when I graduate from college?' The opportunities were endless. In 1969, there were 20 plantations in the Hawaiian Islands, that means 20 managers, 20 assistant managers, 20 factory superintendents, 20 harvesting superintendents, 20 cultivation superintendents, and right on down the line. Under them, had all their — their sub -superintendents and there were supervisors under them and then people that came under them that actually got the work done, the truck drivers, the (ina le), the irrigators and whatever. You're talkin' on this island alone when the Hawai'i sugar industry went out of business, you're lookin' at 40,000 jobs were lost and the sad part about that is I was here in the 70's when the life of the land came along and decided that we needed clean water because there was a Federal Law that was written to protect the Potomac River that says you cannot put the type of water that the sugar industry was putting into the ocean because it was a navigable waterway in the United States of America. Well, that law was written to protect the Potomac River, not the Pacific Ocean. However, our government officials just kinda let it blase through and — and I'm not sayin' that was the demise of the sugar Page 16