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fishing. I fished with him ‘ōpelu net. So, thank you very much. And I say no to the development,
<br />from the bottom of my heart, just no. Thank you.
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<br />TERESA NAKAMA: I’ll keep it short. Aloha kākou. My name is Teresa Nakama. I’ll come
<br />from out of the box view. I will ask Bishop Estate, Kamehameha School, Towne Development,
<br />go back to the table. I don’t know what the details are or what legal steps that you may have to
<br />take. But, could you go back to the table and renegotiate and not sue each other that you vow out
<br />of this deal? And Kamehameha School come with the understanding – I don’t know how much
<br />money you have already spent – take your losses now, okay that loss, and put the project
<br />somewhere else where we won’t have all this hakakā. Can that be done? Can you ask yourselves
<br />that “Can we take this project elsewhere?” Kamehameha Schools, can you cut your losses, and
<br />rebuild the broken trust, and extend the education where it’s happening now where the cultural
<br />center is being revised where the heiau-s are at the beach site, and extend it all the way up the
<br />ahupua‘a into this development, and take care of the sacred place? We have not talked about the
<br />multitudes of people coming here. It impacts every one of us. It impacted my ‘ohana last year, as
<br />we were having a reunion and we reserved the big pavilion at Kahalu‘u. I put yellow tapes, I put
<br />tape across, we put foliage around, and the tourist, the foreign tourist said, “We are coming in.” I
<br />said, “No, we have a family ‘ohana here. Why should you have the shade?” I said, “You came
<br />here to enjoy the sun, so go ahead and take your bodies to the beach.” You know, impacts, you
<br />not discuss impacts. How do we aloha these foreigners and they not impact us negatively? How
<br />do we support Towne Development, Kamehameha Schools, and say, “Can we place this project
<br />elsewhere?” That you cut your losses here. Kamehameha School, extend education from mauka
<br />to makai, and not just makai. Can we think out of the box? Can you cut your losses, both ends,
<br />both parties, and not have it to go through this? We will support you. We will support
<br />Kamehameha Schools and we will support you, Towne Development, if this can be done. Can
<br />you imagine 305 units? Average four family per unit per week? Can you imagine the rental cars
<br />we have on the lots, I mean, Kona alone 25,000 cars that are extra on the road? What are the
<br />impacts you did not think of? It’s a personal impact to every one of us here, whether you are new
<br />here or you’ve been here for generations or we the locals that are not kanaka-s. I ask to cut your
<br />losses and take this project where it’s supposed to be, if can. And if you need help from the
<br />public, ask us. Ask us. We want to support something, but it has to be pono, and logically
<br />speaking, financially great for the investors that you folks represent, for your pockets, our pockets.
<br />How can this be a positive project that is not at Kahalu‘u? And how can we help Kamehameha
<br />School extend the legacy of education to our keiki-s? And, it’s still bottom line about money, but
<br />how do we make it positive? Mahalo.
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<br />MAHINA PAI: My name is Mahina Pai. Thank you for this kūkā. I’d like to share that, yes, I’m
<br />against this development. Mahina Pai. My ‘ohana come from here, long time ago. I’m also a
<br />‘ohana for a lot of ‘ohana here as well. I’d like to share that, yes, I oppose to the development and
<br />there’s a lot of reasons. One of the reasons, I confirmed this morning with Brittany at the County
<br />Parks and Recreation. If you remember, there is a sign over there with the West Hawai‘i Today
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<br />newspaper on March 1, there was a repair that was done. There’s two repairmen on the front
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<br />page of the West Hawai‘i newspaper on March 1, and the two repairmen is repairing the pipe.
<br />You can see that, in fact, again, I worked at one time for the Kamehameha Schools. When I did, I
<br />saw some things that were very disturbing to me with regard to the treatment and the process and
<br />the protocol that was supposed to be carried out with regard to a cultural monitor when a machine
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