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meeting and do not allow that to sway your judgment. I am available for your legal questions if you have 1 any. I wont be advising on anything in particular for this but if you just have procedural questions in general 2 I am this Board’s attorney and I would be happy to answer any questions like that. 3 4 Meeting was adjourned by consensus. 5 6 Monday, October 24, 2016 7 8 Karen Barrows called meeting to order. 9 10 Karen Barrows: Did you have something you wanted to say? 11 12 Matt Hughes: Yes. Before we got started I did want to indicate that I had some ex partake communication 13 that I was very clear. I don’t know the gentlewoman here with the red shirt on but she did try to speak to me 14 at a community event. 15 16 Member of the Public: It was a joke. 17 18 Matt Hughes: It was a joke maybe but I just want to make sure that folks do know. But I did say that I would 19 only be considering what I heard in this meeting and our previous meeting. 20 21 Karen Barrows: I think when we left it we were at final closing arguments. Is there anything else we need 22 to? 23 24 Andy Petesch: Before moving onto the arguments I’d like to complete my rebuttal and redirect of witnesses 25 and make sure all my evidence is moved correctly into the record by the Board. If I could have a few 26 minutes to do that? 27 28 Karen Barrows: Ok. 29 30 Andy Petesch: Thank you. I’d like to have Mr. Brewer respond briefly to some questions that arose to Ms. 31 Brewer’s testimony with respect to chestnut operations. I’d like to ask Mr. Harvey a few questions and then 32 I thought given the hour at which Mr. White was testifying the density of the matter that he was testifying to 33 I’ve asked him to prepare a written report summarizing his testimony and so I’ll have him address that with 34 you briefly. I have prepared and organized the exhibits that are in the notebook and labeled them SPG 1-35 21. They don't include the UDO excerpts or the General Statute excerpts. They speak for themselves. And 36 so I can move all of those into evidence at this time to ensure that everything in the notebook has been 37 admitted. 38 39 LeAnne Brown: Madam chair for the record we would like to object to a number of the exhibits. There are a 40 number of items included in the exhibits, which appear to be documents from other agencies. There's been 41 no evidence put before us to the source of those documents with the veracity of those documents and so 42 we would object to those documents. At the tail end of the last hearing several of the exhibits were moved 43 into evidence but they were the exhibits from which Ms. Brewer had testified. I understand that you function 44 under relaxed rules of Evidence but in order to preserve the record I need to be clear that we are objecting 45 to those and ask that your consideration of them reflect the fact that they have no foundation and no real 46 probative value as to any witnesses particular testimony in the hearing. 47 48 73