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REPLOGLE: Yes. <br /> AU: Commissioner Au, I have a question for the testifier. <br /> REPLOGLE: Please Mr. Au, go ahead. <br /> AU: Good morning, Mr. Turner. I appreciate you as a community member coming to testify at <br /> this venue and I appreciate all those testifiers prior and future testifiers thank you for taking out <br /> time in your day. Question to you Mr. Turner. You mentioned that your property is adjacent to <br /> the proposed development, and you shared with us a few of the issues that happened. I'm <br /> assuming there's no positive interaction with the school that you've had or is it all negative <br /> interaction with the school? <br /> TURNER: Sadly, it's been all negative. It's a constant looking over the fence line to see what <br /> what's going on this week. You know, to pull back the curtain I'm an educator and I believe in <br /> school systems. I believe in opportunities for kids and this project is going to thorn in the side of <br /> this community from the beginning. Again, let's reset this. This isn't the community coming to <br /> the Planning Commission saying please build the school for us. This is the exact opposite. <br /> So, no, there isn't any positive that I can report and that doesn't feel good as an educator. But <br /> there just isn't. If we put our effort into Kaumana Elementary that's something I'll give you. <br /> Put our efforts into DeSilva school, Hilo Middle and Hilo Inter. The schools that serve the <br /> Kaumana community. I'm right there but this is none of that. Frankly, I mean, why are we <br /> doing it here, because the principal lives a block away this makes no sense at all. Sorry just <br /> doesn't. <br /> AU: Thank you Mr. Turner. <br /> REPLOGLE: Mr. Lin? <br /> LIN: Yeah, thank you Chair. Hi Mr. Turner. I have a question for you and as well, I want to <br /> thank all the testifiers here today. But I wanted to make comment to your actually a question <br /> regarding. So, you say E.B. DeSilva, Hilo High, Hilo Intermediate, Kaumana Elementary those <br /> are schools that are within the area. So, if those schools had any plans to expand and use the <br /> same location, would you be opposed, and would the community be opposed? <br /> TURNER: You know I can't speak for the community. Had that school set up a meeting with <br /> the community and asking what we need. They are children right, so why would a school come <br /> to a community asking what we "—". If the community was asking for an expanded footprint of <br /> Kaumana Elementary or one of those schools, and you know, maybe that's part of the discussion, <br /> this is the opposite. So, why would a school come to a community that serves it asking for <br /> greater footprint, should be the opposite way around or if you're coming to a community saying <br /> we need to expand the footprint because all of our kids would have gone there, we don't know. <br /> Right, so I understand your hypothetical and I can't say this started so poorly from the beginning <br /> that it's hard for me to imagine a different scenario. But I appreciate the question and I <br /> understand the question I just I don't know that I have a clear answer for you. <br /> 8 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br />