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WOODWARD: Commissioner Housel? HOUSEL: Yes, I had a question. Are there any current tutoring centers in that area? CAMPBELL: No. The closest tutoring centers are in Hilo. HOUSEL: Are there schools in that area? CAMPBELL: There’s a private school. There are actually two private schools, Malamalama Waldorf School, there is also Kamehameha Preschool which is in very similar neighborhood that I’m proposing to run the tutoring center in. And there’s no objection for that that I know of, and the neighborhood has not suffered. HOUSEL: Right. For the Association, do they have plans to build a school there? MAYHEW: No. It’s my understanding of our Charter of Incorporation and everything else that we actually don’t have that. We will lease the land but it will have to be improved by the lessee. HOUSEL: Okay. So at the current plan there is no intention to build a school there? MAYHEW: No, no, we won’t be developing anything. It’s just open to leasing. HOUSEL: Okay. If you, this is hypothetical but if you were to open this, you know, tutoring center where do you think our students would come from? CAMPBELL: They’re coming from mainly Paradise Park community. And these students are either home-schooled or they go to Pahoa or Keaau or the private schools. HOUSEL: Okay. Are they in the immediate area? CAMPBELL: Immediate area. Some of them can actually ride their bikes from two or three streets below or above me. HOUSEL: So within walking distance? CAMPBELL: Not walking, no, no. It would be a mile or mile and half for some of them. HOUSEL: Okay, okay. Thank you very much. WOODWARD: Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Campbell, have you now or may be having some kind of an agreement with the Department of Education with regards to tutoring students? CAMPBELL: No. I don’t have any agreement with the Department of Education. EXHIBIT B 15