2005-05-20 EXHIBIT A Hualalai PC

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SPRINGER:Youre welcome and thank you. Commissioners any questions for the testifier? Thank you. Maam if you could give us your name and address please? KOOP:My name is Heidi Marie Koop, P.O. Box 486, Captain Cook, 96704. I would like to ask the Planning Commission to grant Hualalai Academys request to the County Council for further variance to increase the number of students at the Kealakehe campus. The most important resource of the community is its children. Building a strong community and offering a variety of educational alternatives in Kona ensures that the education is a bridge to a future that supports a generation with the vision, with the knowledge, skills, and love for our community. Hualalai Academy provides a very much-needed alternative educational opportunity for the children in Kona. The growth of Hualalai Academy is a great benefit to the entire community by providing educational diversity. As one of the founders of Kona Pacific Waldorf School I strongly encourage each of you to vote for that requested variance. I also wouldliketoreportthattheBoardofKonaPacificWaldorfSchool,whichoffersanalternative school to 80 children has unanimously voted to endorse Hualalai Academys request to the County Council for further variance. As a neighbor island administrator of child and family service I can report that my contact with the public schools demonstrates on a daily basis how overwhelmed the administration and teachers of the public schools are by the demands of the variety of the families in this community. Alternative schools are necessity to support the health th and growth of this community. As a parent of a future 9 grader in the fall I ensure that the families in Captain Cook who have their children attend Hualalai Academy will be a consorted effort to carpool to help the traffic situation. We are very conscious about the needs of the traffic in Kona. Thank you for your consideration allowing Hualalai Academy to offer our children the much needed excellent education in Kona. Thank you so much. SPRINGER:Youre welcome and thank you. Are there any questions from the Commission to the testifier? I just have a question for the Director based on the testifiers testimony that I would just like to clarify for all of us. Does this decision making- does decision making end here or does it go on to the County Council? YUEN:This vote is final here by the Planning Commission. SPRINGER:So the vote today is the final vote on the matter. Just for that clarification, itdoesnotgoontotheCouncil.Thankyou.Maamifwecouldhaveyourandaddress. TOWLE:Goodmorningeveryone.ImGingerTowle.Myaddressis75-5788Nele Place Kailua Kona Hawai i. My granddaughter has gone to Hualalai Academy since she was a kindergartner; shes now a ninth grader. I wrote a letter in as a grandmother explaining the excellence of the school and so forth but my appearance here to day is to support this and how desperately this school is need and other schools of this caliber. And I was hearing little rumblings about traffic but what you have to understand, people are going to drop their children off at some school whether its up the street or around the corner and I think that we should never, never hamper education because of traffic. We need to figure out how to calming for the traffic or something like that. And if theres a couple of cranky old men my age just dont pay any attention to them. Cause the last time there was some of this, and I thought this is ridiculous EXHIBIT A 12