2005-05-20 EXHIBIT A Hualalai PC

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our future is our youth. And I have worked with Elaine Watai at Kealakehe and so forth and this is the star of our community. And as this young woman said, we need more education facilities such as this and I cant think of anyone better to continue this with expanded enrollment than Hualalai Academy. Thank you. SPRINGER:Youre welcome. Thank you maam. Any questions for the testifier? Thanks. VON PLATEN LUDER:Aloha and good morning. Im Eric Von Platen Luder. My address is 75-632 Makalauna Place, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740. And Im here today to represent the Kona Kohala Chamber of Commerce. Theres written testimony in support of this measure that you have but I wanted to reinforce that with a personal visit to the Commission. From- I think youve heard from everybody here all of the great things that the school does and all of the wonderful things that it provides for the community and for the students. And I would just like toreallyreiterateKathyBuoncristianisletteronwhichtakesintoaccountthebusinessaspectof how important a school like this is to attract leaders and successful businesses and keep leaders and successful businesses in our communities. So many times we have families moving out of town because the number one most important thing to them is the education of their children. And so many times some of our top leaders, top residents even and even many of us who have grown up here, many of our best friends who grew up here as well, have moved out of this community so their children could go to school in a place, for whatever reason, they thought would be better than the schools that are provided here. So I just want to reiterate that its extremely important for a school like this to exist within our community. Right now in private high schools, there are probably over a thousand families who have their students or their children in private high schools within this area- in this community. Many of them are driving, speaking of traffic, are driving everyday, commuting in cars to Waimea to go to Hawai i Preparatory Academy or Parker School. So were putting a lot of our children on the streets for long, long drives to achieve an education their parents perceive as one that is necessary for them for whatever reasons, which I think is an important thing to think of. So we really shouldnt have these children driving on the road at you know 15, 16 years old, 30 or 40 miles round trip everyday. As well as, coming from Kealakekua, its even farther. So the capacity for high schools especially in the alternative education areas within our community is, sorely needs to be expanded and I really just want to support that. And on behalf of the Kona Kohala Chamber of Commerce let you all know how important we all feel it is. SPRINGER:Thank you. Commissioners any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, thank you all and you may step back from the table. The last person who has signed up to testify is Sarah Crawford. If you could please give your name and address and your testimony. CRAWFORD:Sure, thank you. Aloha. My name is Sarah Crawford. My address is Box 552 in Holualoa. I am Board Secretary of the school. I am a parent at the school. Im a business owner in the community and I am also the informal campus architect. So, if you have any questions about the build-out to be, let me know please. I just wanted to say a couple of things; I dont want to repeat anything that has been said in great detail before. First of all, I want to reiterate although we have come to you in the past in 1998 when we had no campus and we were given, we did not request but we were given a cap of 150 students. We did not plan on that that EXHIBIT A 13