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So if I could direct you up to our slide show. Innovations is West Hawaiis first and only public elementary charter school. We opened in August of 2001. Innovations has 120 awesome students in grades 1 through 6. Our mission is to educate the whole child, body, mind and spirit. Innovations provides parents a choice of free, quality public education in a safe and personable small school environment. Using innovative and meaningful teaching techniques while developing positive character traits and promoting family values. IPCS is dedicated to helping students develop creative talents, academic excellence and a sense of ohana. Our learning is authentic- its a picture of the kids at PAWS, learning how to give dog commands. Taking students beyond classroom walls, to new experiences. Students are challenged to think and theyre given choices about their learning. Learning is relevant and its fun. Our curriculum is balanced providing students opportunities for creative self expression through the arts. Weekly resource classes include music, cultural arts, visual arts and drama. Innovations is best known for its multi-age groupings. We have multi-age classes rather than the traditional graded classrooms. Were an inquiry and project based. We have an abundant and daily use of technology. Our curriculum is student centered and its challenging. This is a first grader who decided to do a report on animal rights. We have master teachers and were a team based school as opposed to having a Principal and telling the staff what to do. Our team makes all the decisionsfortheschool.Wehaveacaringandlovingstaff.Withlotsandlotsofparent participation. And were an outstanding academic achievement school. Innovations was 1 of 32 schools in the state recognized for the 2004 Hawaii Distinguished School. This was based on our students test scores for the Hawaii State Assessment. So, its quite an honor and it is West Hawaiis only elementary school to receive that distinction. We have excellent parent-student satisfaction rate. We have a 100% of our students returning to the school next year. We just had our lottery for next year. We have over 150 applicants and we only had 24 openings because of the return rate. We have a long wait list for each of our grade levels. Our biggest challenges, these may be a little out of order, are funding, we have difficulty with our funding. Innovations has been fiscally sound all 4 years despite the fact that Charter Schools receive less than half of the funding given to regular public schools and we receive no funding for facilities. Facilities is also another issue. Obviously were here today because we need a campus. Kahakai our host school has growing enrollments and they want their classrooms back. We must relocate. After exhausting searches for 2 years we have found a site. And this is an aerial photo that gives you an idea of where the school will be located. The area up- the green area leading up to our central area, Bill could you go? You can see that the school site will be quite a distance from the highway; were not located right on the highway. Its about 500 feet from the entrance up to where the proposed development will be its all up in that area that Bill is showing right now. There is an existing house on the property that will be converted to offices for the school. The garage and workshop will be converted into 2 classrooms which will not be enough for our 120 students so we propose to build 2 additional classroom buildings, a bathroom building and a multi-purpose pavilion. And all of this needs to be done before August 1 when school begins. So before I end my presentation I just wanted to take a minute to share with you one of our educational programs that emphasizes service to our community. I want to show you the variety of ways that our students have enriched their own lives and the lives of others in our community through their participation and the service learning. These are the same students that are same students that are here today asking for your assistance so that they will a school ready for them in August. 5 EXHIBIT D