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BOWMAN: And I’m just and briefly – and I apologize for being a little late – looking <br />at the size of your music room; is how close -, it looks awfully big. <br />R. LELAH: It does. It’s a 35-foot diameter dome building, Commissioner. And if you <br />were to visit the site, you would see there -, and it actually would take me about 90 minutes to <br />speak to all of you about the underpinnings behind why this is the way that it is; I do believe I <br />can very clearly speak to that, if the Commissioners would like to hear that. But other than that, <br />this building is acoustically secure or would be acoustically secure environment and a very quiet <br />environment with no distractions for the type of work that would be occurring within it. That is <br />really not possible within the office building, which if you were to see that is really set up for <br />play therapy and other types of treatment modalities with children and teenagers. There is no <br />way technologically or space-wise or otherwise to use that facility for this type of work. The <br />building itself, the reason why for the size is because the equipment that would be contained <br />therein, which I should say has been predominately donated by major world-class companies, a <br />very, very expensive price. They don’t do that if it’s a flaky operation; they want to make sure <br />that the credentials of the person and what’s going on is really legitimate. And for that <br />equipment and things to be in there, that type of space is required, Commissioner. <br />BOWMAN: Thank you. And my question was on the acoustics; I don’t know how <br />near your neighbors are, and that was -. So thank you for addressing that. <br />R. LELAH: You are welcome. <br />BOWMAN: And is there -, you have a multitude of services. Do you take interns? I <br />don’t know how one person can do all that. So I’m just curious. <br />R. LELAH: Whenever people ask me that question, Commissioner, my response is <br />always spirit. So it is amazing when you come on the property and you see all that goes on and <br />all that is going on, I know it’s unbelievable to people that I do everything. I’m the janitor, I’m <br />the grounds keeper, I run the clinic, I do most of the maintenance and repair on the premises. <br />And I know that there has been a question of, well, if there are two buildings, it would seem like <br />you’ll have employees and other people coming, you know, on the premises. But you see, I <br />don’t know of anybody, certainly on this Island but perhaps in the State of Hawaii, that knows <br />how to do the types of work that I do. And I don’t mean that with my nose in the air; I just don’t <br />know of anybody. And so basically I would be walking back and forth between these two <br />buildings. It’s only a two to three-minute walk, which is very different than having a different <br />facility in town where I would lose a lot of valuable treatment time driving back and forth. And <br />it allows me the flexibility since I have no control over where the openings occur in my practice <br />and who would fill those openings and what their treatment needs would be, you see. So it <br />allows me the flexibility to go back and forth between the buildings and then to provide for the <br />children and teens’ families what seems to be needed. <br />BOWMAN: Thank you. <br />R. LELAH: You are welcome. <br />EXHIBIT A <br />11 <br /> <br />