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STURGES: I do. MELROSE: I do. HOUSEL: Thank you. Could you give your name and address, please? MELROSE: Jeff Melrose, 1405 Wainuenue Avenue. IÓm the consultant for Parker School. Do you want us to do all now, and get it out of the way HOUSEL: Yes, why donÓt we? Go ahead. STURGES: Carl Sturges, Headmaster of Parker School, 65-1221 Lailai Place in Kamuela. WILLE: Margaret Wille, 65-1316 Lihipali Road, Kamuela. And Carl had asked me to assist in working on the consensus agreement and be part of the presentation. MELROSE: Thank you, Commissioners. And I just want to re-visit the directions we got from the Commission in November. This was a, last November hearing, basically we were asked to go back and work and continue to work at Î the word ÐconsensusÑ was used Î to try and come up with a better understanding about how the school and the community could interact and solve problems on this issue. And first I want to kind of acknowledge the fact that thatÓs a daunting task, you know, a community to come to consen but what I want to do is simply acknowledge the fact that that was a tough task, and then I want to give credit to both Margaret and to Carl for working very dil process. So I think we hope to kind of unfold maybe a little bit different kind of agreement here than you may have seen before. But itÓs an important process that you sent us after. So thank you for doing that. And I just turn it over to Carl to kind of talk through what the process looked like and the general sense of it, and let Margaret key in as well. So, go ahead. STURGES: I would like to reiterate, frankly, our appreciation for you having sent us back to the community. At the time I think we were, what on earth are we to do to achieve consensus with the community. So I think we broke a lot of new ground, and IÓm going to try to start by giving you a sense of just what kind of a process we went through and how we tried to achieve that Î that actually has resulted in what I believe to be a much better document from our standpoint of what we were willing to do. And I think we have a much better appreciation of where the community is coming from, and I really believe that the community has a better sense that Parker School wants to be a community responsible player in Waimea for many years to come. So as a result of what was, you know, at first a rather daunting charge on your part, I think we have achieved what -. Well, probably the best way to describe it is to quote from Sherm Warner who is the president of the Waimea Community Association, in his letter endorsing our application he says that basically our agreement Ðnot only resolves virtually all of the issues raised by the community but it also sets a precedent for collaboratively addressing remaining concerns regarding the gymnasium.Ñ So I think what we created out of folklore here is a pretty good process, and one that I would recommend that other applicants regularly go through, because it does allow community input and I think thatÓs an important thing especially 5 EXHIBIT A