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ALEXANDRA: Okay. Well, first of all we’d like to thank you for allowing us to be here today. And we’d also like to especially appreciate Chris Yuen for his continuing support for EnVision -. SIRACUSA: Excuse me. Could you either speak up or get closer to the mike. ALEXANDRA: Okay. Okay. Is that better? SIRACUSA: Thank you. ALEXANDRA: Sorry. SIRACUSA: I want to hear you. ALEXANDRA: As I was saying, we’d like to extend our appreciation to Chris Yuen for his support of EnVision Downtown Hilo 2025 as a model implementation project. Now in September 2005 Alice Moon and Susan Gagorik from the Friends of Downtown Hilo Steering Committee came before the Planning Commission to present the original document which was entitled EnVision Downtown Hilo 2025, a Community-based Vision and Living Action Plan. So this is the document that they presented to you at that time. If anyone was not on the Commission at that time, we do have some spare copies that we have with Sharon, so you can collect those today. Since then, a new committee has been formed to oversee implementation of EnVision Downtown Hilo, and that is the VisionKeepers. The mission of the EnVision Downtown Hilo VisionKeepers is to energize, guide, inspire, and strengthen partnerships within the community to implement the living action plan. We are now 1 ½ years into the phase of implementation and so we’re presenting our first Annual Progress Report which outlines the progress that has been made from January 2006 through June 2007. At this time we’d also like to request to amend the cover page of the Annual Report to include the date it was published, which is August 2007. And if I may please move over to the board to make a presentation. Okay. First of all, I’d like to identify the project area by referring to the map of Downtown Hilo. So you can see here the project area for EnVision Downtown Hilo which follows the Commercial District in the Zoning Code for Downtown Hilo. But some of the actions within the plan do extend beyond the boundary area. And we recognize that Downtown Hilo is a very unique place, partly because of its location, nestled in between Mauna Kea and Hilo Bay. Now I’d like to refer to the Overarching vision for EnVision Downtown Hilo, which is this here. Now this was the community’s vision that they articulated for 2025; and it’s a pretty broad vision. So because of that, the Living Action Plan itself is fairly EXHIBIT A 3