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witnesses and so we have some good people testifying, giving us solid information. <br />Under Judge Ibarra's initial ruling, to have a separate body advise to us would be <br />somewhat of a redundancy, we think, and possibly a waste of time and monies, so this <br />proposal would make sense in that the Commission is having all the public hearings <br />anyway, and if we felt that we did not have any information, we could subpeona or bring <br />in different agencies such as the Office of State Planning and have their people come <br />in to testify to provide input on the CZM that maybe were not addressed during the <br />public hearing process. Virginia can elaborate a little more on that . This is a very fresh <br />issue that we're all trying to deal with right now. <br />RAY: Do you want to go through any more specifics in regard to these <br />recommendations? <br />IRVINE: No, I think that was the one. <br />RAY: I think he touched on adequately the terms and staggering, coming <br />up with some dates that are more practical, and I think that's basically it of substance. <br />Any more questions? All right, thank you very much, Leonard. <br />TANAKA: Thank you. <br />RAY: That concludes our Statements from the Public. We'll move to <br />Agenda item VII. Unfinished Business, and we're going to continue with the Planning <br />discussion. So if the Planning Director, Virginia Goldstein, could come forward, and I <br />don't know if you want to bring anybody else forward. <br />GOLDSTEIN: Good afternoon and thank you for allowing us the time to present <br />some of the issues that have come before us. I have with me Russell Kokubun who is <br />the Deputy Planning Director, and also staff Rodney Nakano and Alice Kawaha, who <br />may be able to provide different kinds of perspectives. Rodney Nakano is the staff with <br />the Board of Appeals. They have submitted separate testimony to you, and Alice is <br />also with our staff to the Planning Commission and so she has a different kind of <br />perspective, so there may be some questions that come from you that they might be <br />able to help with. <br />We have just handed out to you a Working Paper For Discussion and this paper brings <br />out at least three different issues, four different issues with splitting of the <br />East and West Hawaii Commission. One relates to the creating of a new Division of <br />Permitting within the Department of Public Works and I believe Jiro Sumada <br />provided you with some information earlier on the request to create a new division. <br />RAY: ; Yes, actually just verbally from Public Works and then, I believe, <br />9 <br />