October 22, 2016 FINAL SC Minutes

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property or anything else and that's the truth. And so therefore, I think when everybody gets up here and says we want an ag center, we want a slaughterhouse, we want a restaurant, we want this, that's not the function of the Steering Committee to decide what would be nice on that spot. I think your job is to look at it overall and I think as you saw in my — in my written statement, the CDP cries out for Open on that spot. It cries out with the objectives of the CDP, it cries out with the functions of the CDP, the factors of the CDP, the factors of the General Plan and then the State Law, the Coastal Management Acts which all say the same thing in different ways: preserve the coast. Discourage development on the coast. If there is industry, try to encourage them to move away from the coast. The idea is that, and I think we need to keep that in mind. Thank you. 4. Valerie Poindexter, representing herself: I'm Valerie Poindexter. I'm not only representing myself but I — most of you know that I represent District 1 and 1 just wanna talk about overall, the entire coastline when we talk about —you know, preserving coastline but also making sure that we take care of our farmers. And I met a lot with our farmers throughout the coastline. In fact, Mr. — I think the Chin Chuck Road people too, I've helped them get their roads completed so that we could do better farming and you know, work on the paving there so that they could get their trucks in and out for farming and he (Dong Guo) sits here today and I — it was you that I worked with, correct? Yes, so it's — I have a — my goal is to make sure that we are sustainable throughout the coastline and when we look at throughout the coastline, we look at here at Hama — NHERC itself which is planning to have a certified kitchen and has been working to make sure that they also help our farmers during that process. We have Hdmdkua Harvest, their goals are to have a certified kitchen and they are currently, successfully working with farmers. In Pa'auilo, we have a certified kitchen there. Through the closure of the sugar company, we wanted to make sure that we do take care of our farmers and we have a place to process. And, when Hilo Coast closed, we had the Fuji Bakery which we are currently still working on to help our farmers out in the Hilo Coast area. So, throughout that coastline, we have been very successful in making sure that we have places for the farmers. I'd like to go back to Fuji Bakery and if you know up in that area by Fuji Bakery where the County has their gym, the State has a property up there. We have been working for this — well, 1 have been for only the past couple of years but there is a group that has been working it — working with the administration from Harry Kim's time so it's many years, to make that the food hub and the area to help farmers to come and process, for other community members to use it for their foodshare so they could have a certified kitchen there. So, it's making sure that we have it where the public can easily access and it's in a big area. Like throughout the coastline, most of you know here about the Hdmdkua Harvest and what's happening and all. So, I say that we have those already in place and that I would ask the Steering Committee when you make your decisions to be very mindful that we have had the community, the grassroots level community working on this for many years so I hope that nobody tries to divert that — their goals and objectives, which includes not only the farmers but you know, other projects that will meet the needs of the people on the Hdmdkua Coast. Thank you for your time. S. Jim Cain, representing himself, speaking on Business Item 1: Aloha mai kakou. My name is Jim Cain. For the last 30 years, my family and I have been blessed to call Waipi'o Valley our adopted home. We have been —we farm taro, make poi for our island community. We've also been very Page 14