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T. YERLICK: Because I’m wondering myself. I currently teach at Holualoa Elementary School as well as Kealakehe Elementary School where I teach English as a second language. And this one picture is an entrance to the school; it’s a terribly steep road, it’s very dangerous. There’s, parents are driving with their children every morning and every afternoon as well as the teachers. And I took a picture just when I went at 5:00 because I also teach an evening class to adults who don’t speak English; and there were three cars that were trying to manipulate getting into that road at the time from Mamalahoa Highway. And I took a picture of another road that intersects the school; it goes right through the middle of the school. The children have to cross from one building – we are talking Elementary School – from one building to another; I find it terribly dangerous. And I’m wondering why the Public Works would have approved of a road such as that where children are involved on a daily basis. And we are talking 200 cars easily, 300, I don’t know, there’s 300-something students at that school. So I’m concerned, you know, with the quality of the roads more when it involves children and schools, and I don’t really understand the concern on the road that has three houses and very, very little traffic. So that’s my question. Why would they -. WATANABE: Thank you. I’m not sure we’ll be able to answer that on behalf of the Public Works, yeah? But I appreciate your comments, and I understand your concern. T. YERLICK: Thank you. DOMINGO: Mr. Chairman. WATANABE: Yes, Mr. Domingo. DOMINGO: How do you interpret that requirement, “reconstruct the existing private road approach?” WATANABE: No. 7? The revised No. 7? DOMINGO: Yes, yeah, because -. WATANABE: The revised No. 7 is on this light yellow copy, yeah? DOMINGO: Okay, this one here? WATANABE: No, no, we were handed a lighter yellow copy. And it’s much less stringent than the first one; the first one required that you build a two-lane road – yeah, it’s – two-lane road to replace that single lane driveway, and it was, you know, for the scale of the project, shall we say, kind of overboard. And the Planning Director has really scaled that down significantly with the, I believe, it’s the first 40 feet, minimum 24-foot width, just at the entrance to Mamalahoa Highway. And I don’t suppose that’s going to be that significant a cost, yeah? Now, granted it’s still an additional cost for a small project. EXHIBIT A 9