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certainly donÓt have to address to you what it means to not get the approval; it will undoubtedly close the doors of the organization. Although I will admit and concede that we are not in an ideal situation right now, and things over the past number of years have not gone the way we wanted them to in terms of getting this completed. IÓve been a part personally of this process for about two years. And I can speak to the work that is being done on a daily basis to get this completed, and we are working very hard and very diligently to get it done. And we appreciate the help of guys like Ki and some others that have been very helpful in getting this finished. But this organization, itÓs easy to think of it just a church that meets on Sunday mornings; itÓs far different from that. We serve. It is true we meet as a religious organization on Sunday mornings serving about 300 individuals in our community. But in addition to that we have a youth program that serves the community, not just our church, serves the community, about 100 kids per week Î those are just littler kids. We have a Junior High and High school program reaching 60-plus kids on a weekly basis Î some of them at-risk youth that could be who knows where else without the program. We have addiction recovery services that meet weekly at the church serving 20-plus people, not members of our church for sure, but community members that are in need of those services. We have counseling services, we have leadership classes Î all reaching out to the community. Without this building, we believe it will be virtually impossible to continue on our current iteration. We searched other options, but as you know, in this community it is very difficult to find a place where a group can get together of that size thatÓs even close to be economically feasible. We have moved forward. And in fact, as an update on that, the water commitments, although we are waiting for the paperwork, we have an agreement on the water units; thatÓs taken care of. The money that was required to be escrowed, we have put aside and itÓs approved by the County. This has been a ten-year long process. We are willing, and with some help from the County we believe that we can be paving in just a few weeks. We are very close to being done. ThatÓs all. WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have any questions of Mr. Detweiler? like it. Yes, Maija, do you have something to add? COTTLE: Can I just ask for a clarification from the applicant? Did you say that you are operating a school on the property? DETWEILER: No, I did not. And itÓs very important that you know we do not. COTTLE: Okay. DETWEILER: What we do is we serve a lot of local kids, some at-risk kids; that meets on Monday nights and then meets again on Wednesday nights and I believe Tuesday nights. So they donÓt conflict at all in any way with the school next door. COTTLE: Okay, thank you. WATANABE: Seeing that we -. Ms. Bowman. EXHIBIT A 10