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Incorporated, who served as the prime consultant for the North Kohala CDP, to cover the content in the Plan and highlight some of the key areas. And finally, Ms. Fern White, Chair of the North Kohala Steering Committee, will provide you with community perspective regarding the planning process and the North Kohala CDP document itself. Our presentation will be brief, so we can answer any questions you may have regarding the material we cover or other questions that you may have already. With that, I’d like to begin by outlining the CRP – that’s the Community Readiness Project – that preceded the CDP. The CRP was a collaborative effort between the Department of Research and Development and the Planning Department. Between the month of June and September 2006, over 2,800 ideas were generated from over 80 talk-story sessions, and approximately 730-plus community members, which total roughly to 12 percent of the total population of North Kohala participated. CRP data served to help the North Kohala CDP Steering Committee prioritize the community’s input and select four priority issues that would become the focus of the CDP. In August 2007 the Steering Committee was convened – almost a year to the day – and one of their first hustle was to select four priority issues that would become the focus of the CDP; and the priority issues identified were growth management, infrastructure, affordable housing, and ocean and mountain access. Steering Committee then prepared to host the first community meeting in – I’m sorry, I misstated that, the Steering Committee was convened in June 2007 – the first community meeting was held in August 2007 to accomplish the following: 1. introduce the Steering Committee to the community; 2. introduce Townscape to the community; 3. report back to the community regarding the CRP process – because there was no formal presentation back to the community after the CRP was concluded, and so we took that opportunity to kind of bring people back into the loop and give them an update on what information was collected; 4. outline the process and timeline of the North Kohala CDP; 5. validate the priority issues with the community that were identified by the Steering Committee; and 6. begin recruiting community members to participate in the Focus Group process. From October through December of 2007 Focus Groups were developed and met over 20 times, and as a result Townscape produced working papers, which essentially served as the basis for the North Kohala CDP. In January of 2008, this year, the Steering Committee again hosted a second community meeting to update the community regarding what happened during the Focus Group phase and validate the information that we developed so far to ensure the process and the direction that the CDP was going was in line with what the community saw, and finally to outline the next steps in the CDP process and update the timeline. From the end of January through February and into March the Steering Committee, Focus Group members and Townscape worked on developing the CDP, and on March 26, 2008, the North Kohala CDP public review draft was released for comment and input from the community. To facilitate this input process, the following outreach was done: The North Kohala CDP was made available online and the link was provided to the community in a flyer. I’m sorry, I’ll back up one step; a flyer was sent to all postal recipients in North Kohala that outlined the following – and that was approximately 2,500 mailouts, so if you received mail in North Kohala, you EXHIBIT A 3