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Ms. Gomes shared that she initially had difficulty separating agricultural from industrial. As a rancher, she knows the importance of having resources available on a local level. She acknowledged that many times she and other members asked questions that dug deeper than they needed to, in an attempt to answer questions that are out of the CDP scope. Pulling back, and looking at agriculture and industrial within the scope of the CDP and looking at the larger umbrella helped to define things for her. She encouraged the County to work with community members and major stakeholders in the area to find solutions that are imbedded in the intent of the CDP document. Ms. Gomes re -read the motion on the floor before calling for the vote: It has been moved and seconded to recommend approval of the January 2016 draft Hdmdkua Community Development Plan amended to reflect the revisions in the document, "Summary of Proposed Revisions to the Draft Hdmdkua CDP" dated November 15, 2016 which summarizes revisions preliminarily agreed on by the Steering Committee during its September 10th and 28th October 22, and November 2, 2016 meetings. Motion passed with the following votes: 1. Ms. Pahi'o — aye 2. Nr. Neff — aye 3. Mr. Kurokawa — recused 4. Ms. Mendoza — aye 5. Mr. Moniz —aye 6. Mr. Carvalho — aye 7. Ms. Gomes - aye The Summary of Proposed Revisions can be viewed anYownloaded from the following website: htt records.co.hawaii.hi.us webIink 1 doc 82366 Pa e1 x PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS: There were two people who signed up to testify. Valerie Poindexter, representing herself, providing testimony on the recommendation of approval: I wanna thank all of you again for voting in favor of this and I heard about the concern about Industrial and when we look back at the demise of the sugar industries and what had happened with the Industrial -zoned areas on our coastline properties, they destroyed our ecosystems. So, if you look back at history, how do we move forward? And I think, a beautiful thing that has happened many years ago, even before I was in office is the Hakalau people already started to look at the closure and how it impacted them and how can they move forward as farmers.' If you look at Hakalau, every Tuesday, their Food Share, the farmers that come out. I asklall of you to come and visit them on Tuesdays at 3:OOpm and see what the farmers are coming together and doing and their produce, whether it be bartering like Mr. Nishimoto said, giving away, bartering what you have and if you don't have, you can still buy. However, investing in the community like you have done with the Community Development Plan, that's where it's at. So, we talked about the incubator kitchens or the certified kitchens, that's all happening up in Hakalau and so the people who have not known this, I ask you from the Hakalau area, please speak to our local grassroots people who have been working for over — Page 112