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CLARKSON: Any questions for staff, Commissioners? In that case, will the Applicant or their <br />representative please come forward? I need to swear you in, please. Raise your right hands. Do <br />you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the Planning Commission? <br />[Yen Wen Fang, P.E., Representative from Engineering Partners, Inc., also went up with <br />Mr. Tanaka.] <br />TANAKA: Yes, I do. <br />CLARKSON: Thank you. Please state your name, where you reside, and then proceed. Please <br />speak directly into the microphone—yeah, it's always on. <br />TANAKA: Yeah. Yeah, my name is Rodney Tanaka. I'm the president of Hawaii Spring <br />Supply. OhI presently live in Kea`au, but I've been a lifetime Hilo resident. My business has <br />been in operation since 1956, and I'm asking you guys to please approve this. It's to try to better <br />my working conditions for my workers and myself, and so we can grow. Thank you. <br />CLARKSON: Yeah, did you read the Planning Director's Background Report and <br />Recommendation? Do you agree with the Recommendation and its conditions? <br />TANAKA: Yes. <br />CLARKSON: In that case, are there any questions for the Applicant from Commissioners? <br />RAFFIPIY: Yeah, I have a question. Mr. Tanaka, do you have any issue meeting the conditions <br />that the, that was set forth in the, by the Planning Director? Do you have any—you don't have <br />an issue meeting them? <br />TANAKA: No, I don't haveI'm not aware. I was letting my engineers handle most of this <br />`cause I've been travelling back and forth to Honolulu to take care of the other shop. But, if <br />there is any condition that you guys want me to meet that we haven't met, I will surely look into <br />it and try to get it done. I didn't know of any problem with anything. <br />RAFFIPIY: Any construction, construction timelineanything, you don't have no problem with <br />construction timeline within the five-year extension requested? <br />TANAKA: That's why I'm applying for five years. I'm applying for five years because I <br />bought the property in December of 2015. So, right away in January, we went to see the <br />engineers hoping we could it done before the zoning ran out, and there were some complications <br />and things got behind. So, the reason why I'm asking for the five years is to guarantee me <br />enough time if there are any problems to finish this project. <br />RAFFIPIY: Thank you very much. <br />TANAKA: Yes, thank you. <br />EXHIBIT A <br />3 <br />