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of the school, weÓd like to, well, itÓs already, the process already began; the County has already begun to re-stripe, or get rid of some of the striping in front of the school that prevents people from dropping off the students. Moving the main drop-off area slightly north along Lindsey Road would appear to be an important advantage. Especially, I rely on Ron Thiel for this, and we will be shortly in the next few weeks developing our own side will actually get out of their cars further north, walk on the campus through our sidewalk and access the campus in that way. We also think that a raised crosswalk on Lindsey Road would be a good thing. One of the problems right now is not everybody in town uses the existing crosswalk. There is quite a bit of evidence that indicates that a raised crosswalk is used more by people, and it also has the effect of slowing traffic down, both of which we think would be important on Lindsey Road. We are committed to that. And as part of the sidewalk rebuild we would certainly be willing to fund the cost of a raised sidewalk. ThatÓs quite a thing to put in because youÓve got to do drainage and all that sort of thing, but we still think itÓs worth it and we would be willing to foot the cost for that. And it also was mentioned that we will promise to acutely manage use of the drop-off area in front of the school. The issue was more acute at pick- up than drop-off actually, and especially the pick-up time when everybody comes at once to get their kids, weÓll make sure that traffic keeps moving and does not block the intersection with Kawaihae Road. WeÓve also begun the process of widening the entrance to the, the school side entrance to our parking lot Î when I arrived at school today, the fences were down, the area is dug out for asphalting Î and that should happen in the next few weeks. And one of the issues is just itÓs tough to get in and out of the parking lot and that slows traffic down, so weÓve already begun to implement that particular aspect. We have taken the Lindsey Road parking lot expansion off the table; we wonÓt be doing that as part of our master plan. It is sufficient to meet all the requirements for parking for our existing campus and, you know, clearly was an issue i terms of putting more cars out onto Kawaihae Road. And so we are comfortable with not doing that. LetÓs see. I mentioned the gym. And weÓve also, as per the County study recommendations, weÓll be doing signage and streetlights on Lindsey as per County recommendation, and that would occur at the point in which we build either the gymnasium or the middle school. We will continue to limit use of PuÒuk Road and encourage our parents not to drop off students on PuÒuk Road. Although one of the properties that would be rezoned is located on PuÒuk Road, the proposed resource center for the lower school, we wonÓt access that from PuÒuk Road; weÓll access that from the lower school side so that that doesnÓt add a further strain. We recognize that living in the middle of the campus is a challenge for PuÒuk Road residents, and we feel that, you know, theyÓve been good supporters of the school and we want to be sure that we donÓt have more strain on them by using our access point off of PuÒuk as ways of getting onto campus. WeÓll continue to work with the community, with the County on traffic issues in the greater Waimea community. We are supporters of a variety of initiatives that are, have the intention of changing and improving the traffic picture in Waimea, whether th bridge, build connector roads, bypass roads Î those are all things that will benefit the entire community. We support Ron ThielÓs desire to have a traffic management plan be a requirement for granting plan approval for either the middle school or the gymnasium. That represents the best way in which at the time the building is actually built, we get a read on what sorts of things are necessary to improve the flow of traffic and to minimize our impact on the overall traffic 9 EXHIBIT A