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HOUSEL: Thank you. Commissioners, do you have any questions of the testifiers? Thank you very much. IÓd like to call the next four testifiers, please: Shellie Gressard, Victor Cappagli, Mary Hon and Jesse Tarnas. Could you please raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth on this matter now before the HawaiÒi County Planning Commission? TESTIFIERS: Yes. HOUSEL: Thank you. Could each of you state your name and address, speaking into the microphone, please? CAPPAGLI: Victor Cappagli. I live at 65-1226 Laelae Road, Kamuela. HON: Hello, my name is Mary Hon. My mailing address is P. O. Bo Kamuela. J. TARNAS: IÓm Jesse Tarnas. My address is 66-1672 Waiaka Place, Kamuela. GRESSARD: IÓm Shellie Gressard. My address is 65-1110 HkÒula Road, Waimea. HOUSEL: Okay. If you can please begin? CAPPAGLI: Yes. Good morning. ThereÓs a few things that I would like to say, and I appreciate being able to testify this morning. Thank you very much. IÓve lived in Waimea for about nine years. I have two daughters who have either gone to Parker School or go to Parker School now, so IÓm very aware of the traffic and safety in this immediate area. I am here to support Parker SchoolÓs expansion plan. I think that itÓs a benefit to the community to be able to have an alternate place for our students to go to school. My gi are very pleased with it, and I would like to see other parents have the ability to go to Parker School in the future. Future expansion is not something thatÓs easy; a lot of people do not like the idea of having expansion. But itÓs inevitable. We would like to have better roads around that area. We wait for different County organizations to redirect traffic and make dropping kids off to school and picking them up a little bit easier, but I donÓt believe that that should deter from this plan, which I believe is a good plan, for the expansion of support for the plan, and I ask that the committee (sic) grant p ahead with its proposed permitting. Thank you. HOUSEL: Thank you. HON: Hello, IÓm Mary Hon. IÓm a community member and a Parker S parent. My son will be graduating next year, so he would not benefit directly from, you know, the schoolÓs expansion, the improvements that Parker is seeking. But I feel that the entire community, keiki in the future, will benefit from this, from more classrooms and from a gym. And it says something about Waimea that we can have two really great college prep schools. And I hope that you will approve this. Thank you. HOUSEL: Thank you. 16 EXHIBIT A