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<br />PLANNING COMMISSION <br />COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I <br />HEARING TRANSCRIPT <br />SEPTEMBER 7, 2007 <br />A regularly advertised hearing on the presentation by ENVISION DOWNTOWN HILO <br />was called to order at 9:11 a.m.in the County of Hawaii, Aupuni Center Conference <br />Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawaii with Chairman William R. Graham presiding. <br />PRESENT: William R. Graham ABSENT & EXCUSED: C. Kimo Alameda <br />Takashi Domingo Alvin Rho <br />Andrew Iwashita <br /> Shelly Ogata <br /> Rene’ Siracusa <br />Rodney Watanabe <br />Rell Woodward <br />Ivan Torigoe, Deputy Corporation Counsel <br />Christopher Yuen, Planning Director <br />Jeff Darrow, Staff Planner <br />And approximately 16 people from the public in attendance <br />ENVISION DOWNTOWN HILO <br />Presentation by The EnVision Downtown Hilo 2025 (EDH 2025) VisionKeepers <br />on their first Annual Report covering the period from January 2006-June 2007. The <br />Annual Report summarizes the first 1-1/2 years of the VisionKeepers accomplishments <br />for the EnVision Downtown Hilo 2025: Community-based Vision and Living Action <br />Plan for Downtown Hilo. The EDH 2025 Plan was adopted by County Council <br />Resolution 192-05 on November 22, 2005. <br />GRAHAM: Our first agenda item is a presentation by the EnVision Downtown <br />Hilo 2025 VisionKeepers, and it’s a presentation of the first Annual Report. And the <br />objective of this EnVision Downtown Hilo is a Community-based Vision and Living <br />Action Plan for the Downtown Hilo area. Jeff, you want to give us a few words on that? <br />DARROW: Sure. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, Members of the <br />Planning Commission, Mr. Chairman. The EnVision Downtown Hilo Plan 2025 was <br />originated in December of 2005, for those of you that may have been on board with the <br />Planning Commission might remember the plan coming before the Planning <br />Commission. The group that put this plan together has requested that they come before <br />the Planning Commission to be able to do an annual progress report and report on the <br />progress that has been made over the past year with the report. I’ve been asked to <br />introduce Kylie Ann Alexandra who’s the community planning assistant, as well as Paul <br /> EXHIBIT A <br />1 <br /> <br />