2018-01-18 Leeward Exh B (AMEND SMA 412, REZ 17-225 & SMA 17-068))

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We urge the Commission to do a walk through the area. And I noted in the newspaper the other day that you have that planned for your February meeting. We much appreciate that you are willing to do this. Thank you for the opportunity to comment. UNGER: Thank you. To clarify, there is no set site visit; that’s part of the discussion today. SCHAEFER: Okay. UNGER: Thank you. NEWBERG: Hello. I don’t believe I was here to swear in, if I need to. UNGER: Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth before the Planning Commission? NEWBERG: I do. UNGER: Thank you. Please state your name and the area of residence. NEWBERG: Max Newberg, Waikoloa. UNGER: Thank you. NEWBERG: I just wanted to say thank-you to the Commissioners here for allowing us to speak. My name is Max Newberg. I’m the Kona Field Representative for the Hawai‘i Regional Council of Carpenters. We are better known as the Carpenters Union. We are in full support of the amendments being requested by Waikoloa Land Company for their project at ‘Anaeho‘omalu Bay. We feel it’s been demonstrated, again, here today by their flexibility and willingness to accommodate what will help make this even a more fitting project for the area. As carpenters, we represent 600 men and women here on the Island of Hawai‘i and their families. Also, I believe Waikoloa Land Company being willing to offer livable wages, which is something becoming more and more difficult for our working families to achieve. We, we learn our trade through our State-recognized apprenticeship program, and hope that all of our men and women that are carpenters and drywaller are able to apply their craft and help build their communities and make a livable wage so they are able to raise their families and be a part of this community. We also enjoy recreation. This is a very busy place, home to not only the bay where everybody wants to enjoy the beach, also the paddle team and, again, the restaurant as well. We feel what they are reducing in their density is another show of them being able to find a proper fit and place for the location and the enjoyment. And I believe this bid of a project, although will provide construction jobs, will also provide jobs for those that will remain and maintain this project after completion. And with no shame or humor involved, we’ve all been in line after a full working day with somebody in a high-vision shirt, and it’s not always a most enjoyable smell that you get after a hard-working day as a trade’s person. And so what we try to do is teach our members to be able to work with efficiency, work hard and diligently, not only learning their craft and passing it down to future generations, but being able to support responsible development, which we feel this is. Thank you. 21 EXHIBIT B