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Lead Solution Partners take the lead for implementing action in the plan. We now have 41 committed lead solution partners, which are a combination of County agencies and community organizations. Over the past four or five years we have held nine meetings with our lead solution partners. These meetings are typically focused toward a particular purpose, such as planning of the town meetings. And they also afforded lead solution partners the rare opportunity to network with each other, and they encouraged the sharing of information and resources. Four separate action plan review workshops were held to finalize the Action Plan Update with our lead solution partners. But these meetings also included potential partners, as well as students from a variety of schools in the Hilo area. And we also worked in partnership with the Hilo Downtown Improvement Association to implement “Easy Wins”. And “Easy Wins” are small visible projects that are relatively inexpensive and involve the community. And some examples of “Easy Wins” include the installation of hanging baskets on the decorative land posts, the installation of interpretative signage at Kalakaua Park and at the Naha Stone at the Hilo Public Library, and the revitalization of Liholiho Park. So these are just a few images from the two town meetings that were held in 2007 and 2008. Town meetings are particularly important for on-going community engagement during the implementation process. And we used a variety of outreach methods for the town meeting, including mailings, email networks, posters around Downtown Hilo and radio announcements and interviews. And between the two town meetings almost 500 participants from the community attended. And these are images from the Sustainable Design Assessment Team Program. The purpose of this program was to look at implementation for the EDH 2025 Plan from the perspective of the environmental, economic and social wellbeing of downtown, It was coordinated by the American Institute of Architects, the Planning Department and the VisionKeepers; and it included two public meetings and two working group session for our implementation partners. And these photos were taken during those events. So one of the strengths of the implementation process is that new groups and individuals continue to become involved. And I’d like to briefly introduce the vision concepts. The vision concept is a series of five drawings that bring Downtown Hilo to life through enhancements, or through potential enhancements, to existing civic and open spaces. It adds to the written action in the EDH 2025 Plan by providing that visual representation. And these were developed by a local artist, Charles Snyder, based on input that was gathered at the first action plan review workshop. So this is one of the vision concept drawings showing Bayfront and Wailuku River, and we have Kalakaua Park, the intersection of Ponahawai Street and Kilauea Avenue, and the Hilo Farmers Market on Market Day, and Mamo Street and Kilauea Avenue. And so, again, these illustrations just show how Downtown Hilo could look in 2025 with the implementation of some of the actions in the Plan. It’s not set in stone. It’s like, I say, merely a visual representation of the plan, bringing it to life so that people can see these drawings and have a common sort of visual conception of how the plan could look or how downtown could look in 2025. 4 EXHIBIT A