December 10, 2025, Planning Board Special Meeting - WEHI Transcript

01/14/2026 10:36:25 AM Page 21 to 24 of 144 6 of 55 sheets 21 cubicles or anything.1 Okay.2 Q. Now, on December 2 you received an e-mail from3 Mark Seel at Langan, correct?4 Correct.5 A. And Mark Seel -- excuse me. Was the engineer who6 Q. spoke to structural engineering issues on behalf of the7 applicant, is that correct?8 Yes.9 A. Now, what prompted him to send that particular10 Q. e-mail?11 Do you need a copy of it?12 Yup.13 A. I can show you my copy.14 Q. Yeah, let me see the e-mail.15 A. MR. PLOCKER: Is this what was marked --16 MR. AFRAN: O-36.17 MR. PLOCKER: Thank you.18 I will need it back, but just take a look.19 Q. CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Can you identify exactly20 what that is?21 MR. AFRAN: It's O-36.22 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Okay. Thank you.23 Yes.24 A. Thank you.25 Q. 22 Now, this is an e-mail dated December 2, 2025,1 from Mr. Seel to yourself as well as Anderson, Mr.2 Anderson, and as well as to Mr. Hernandez at your3 company. And Mr. MacNeill, Mr. Rizzo and Alejandra4 Mazier at your company. Now, do you know what prompted5 this particular e-mail to be sent to you?6 We were approached by Langan Engineering to7 A. discuss our report and so there was a series of voice8 discussions, which are all summarized in the material I9 gave you at the last meeting, and it was subsequent10 discussion over, since the last meeting regarding the11 technical issues that we had brought up to be addressed.12 Give me one second, please.13 Q. And actually Mr. Seel was responding to your14 e-mail of December 1, which is attached to Exhibit O-36.15 Now, aside from these two e-mails and your e-mail of16 December 2 just acknowledging Mr. Seel's reply, were17 these discussions memorialized in other e-mails or were18 they phone calls or zoom discussions or personal19 meetings?20 I'm sorry, if I could drop back. There were a21 A. couple of items that we indicated, this is before the22 end of November, that we had indicated were needed for23 us to complete our evaluation. And those items regarded24 the analysis of high groundwater conditions that was not25 23 included in the report. So the discussions with Langan1 began with the discussion of the items that we had2 requested in order to complete the evaluation. And so3 there was a series of discussions, I think they're all4 summarized in the papers I gave last week, and there was5 a discussion this week and, you know, I have

order to complete the evaluation. And so3 there was a series of discussions, I think they're all4 summarized in the papers I gave last week, and there was5 a discussion this week and, you know, I have further6 summary if you need it.7 Well, we'll get to this weeks in a moment. That8 Q. was after the last meeting?9 After the last meeting.10 A. Okay. Hold that, we'll get to it.11 Q. Now, O-36, I mean you say it's a summary but12 really it's a one paragraph statement by you indicating13 certain points and to which Mr. Seel then responded to14 several points. Now, were there other e-mails that15 comprised records of these discussions going back and16 forth or is the only set, O-36?17 I think that's the chain of e-mails.18 A. Yes, it's a set of e-mails from December 1 to19 Q. December 2 from you to Mark -- from Mark to you. Now my20 question is different and I don't know why you don't21 answer it straight. Were there other e-mails between22 you and the Anderson people memorializing your23 discussions after your site inspection?24 Besides those pages there were.25 A. 24 Well, where are they?1 Q. I thought, I thought what I had attached was, was2 A. information that goes back to November -- to mid3 November.4 Do you have those e-mails with you?5 Q. Yes.6 A. May I see them?7 Q. MR. PLOCKER: Can we all see them, please.8 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Hang on. Mr. Afran, can9 you bring it up here.10 THE WITNESS: There's another copy you want11 too?12 MR. AFRAN: Let me take a look for one13 second.14 Mr. Kleinberg, these are in chronological order,15 Q. right?16 I believe they are.17 A. Okay.18 Q. MR. AFRAN: Okay. They're a set of19 chronological e-mails going back roughly to November, I20 think.21 THE WITNESS: They're after the first22 meeting.23 After the first meeting here that you testified24 Q. at?25