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TORIGOE: Well, in any contested case proceeding you would want to consult the parties on the procedures that you’re going to use. At this point bear in mind though that you’ve got a motion on the floor that basically is to hear it as the Commission and to do it today. WATANABE: Okay. In light of what Mr. Iwashita has brought up, Mr. Woodward, would you care to amend that motion to -? WOODWARD: Yeah, I would be happy to amend the motion that we handle this at the Planning Commission level and we reschedule this, continue this hearing until we get input from the Department of Education regarding the proposed hours of operation of this facility. WATANABE: Thank you. Mr. Domingo, I believe you -. DOMINGO: I would concur. WATANABE: You would concur. I think you’re all aware of what we’ve been discussing about getting some feedback from the Department of Education. Would you come up please, Ms. Campbell. I believe it would be you that would be addressing that. Would you have any objections to that? CAMPBELL: Yes, I would. And may I state why? WATANABE: Yes. CAMPBELL: In our community there are a lot of home schooled children and the families choosing the option to educate their children sign their children out from the DOE on Form 4140 and take responsibility for the education of their children. And then they proceed either to do this within their home or hire tutors to oversee and support the work that the children are assigned to do. And every year they go and take the test; and statistically we know that the DOE is struggling yet home schooled children do excel extremely well on testing. So I have an objection to postponing this. I am asking for your consideration that, I’m trying to meet a need in the community and to not put those families off from using my services. WATANABE: Okay. Would you be able to address Mr. Iwashita’s concern that somehow your enrollment, albeit only 16 children, would not negatively impact the public school’s system in that, you know, essentially you’re not breaking any laws by true home schooling? And maybe if you can address that to his satisfaction then that objection might be withdrawn. CAMPBELL: Okay, all right. So, Mr. Iwashita, my work in the last 3 ½ years has been with students who have been home schooled, or signed out as home schooled students by their parents; and I was visiting them in their homes. Then with the increase in the population the demand for this or the choice that the parents have made had also increased in choosing to home school their children. And so I have been in the community for 17 years. It has been known what my success level is; and I have 40-some odd families who said, Marty, if this passes please keep us on your wait list. So it’s not even families that I have informed of what I am doing but it’s families who have made the decision already to take their children out of the DOE system that have reached out to me. It’s a small community, word gets around. So that is why I’m EXHIBIT B 12