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comprehensive. Within the Living Action Plan we have it broken down into six different Focus Areas. Those Focus Areas are creating economic vitality, preserving our environment, strengthening and sustaining our community, enhancing education, culture and the arts, promoting health and safety and managing growth. Those Focus Areas themselves are then broken down into numerous strategies, which are then broken down into individual actions which are to be implemented in order to then achieve the overarching vision. Now at the time that the community developed this plan, they nominated Lead Solution Partners whom they felt would be most suitable for implementing the specific actions. And right now we have 28 Lead Solution Partners who have committed to implementing their actions within the plan. Now the process of Community Visioning and developing an Action Plan is a very powerful tool that’s not often used in traditional planning approaches. It brings people together to develop a common vision of their future and then it brings those people back to work on the actions that are necessary to achieve that vision. It enables greater community involvement to develop a foundation for building partnerships and leadership capacity in order to achieve their vision. But the process does have its challenges. Being a model implementation project, the VisionKeepers find themselves responsible for educating both community groups and government agencies about the need for greater partnership and collaboration by working with a plan. Sometimes we’re not used to working with plans since many of them seem to “sit on the shelf.” And that’s why the VisionKeepers are such an essential committee, because we are the ones who insure that the plan does not sit on the self. We take it out to the people who need to hear about it, who need to know about it, and ultimately will then buy into it. And I’d like to pass over to Paul now.He can explain a little bit more. NASH: Thank you, Kylie. So we’ve been at this for the past 18 months and we have had successes. As far as successes, you can see the handicap ramps there in the Action Plan. There are some lamp posts that have been put in. We have started up, there have some actions started up, including -. The Hilo Bayfront trails, includes a lot of the actions that are in this Plan. And we’re working with Public Works and DIA in order to put in more trash cans Downtown, and also looking into the recycling bins Downtown. But one of our key accomplishments in these 18 months is not something quite so tangible. It has been the development of our organizational structure and learning new skills and new roles in order to assist the Lead Solution partners, the people who are going to be taking the ball and running with these actions in the plan. We’re finding a way to shepherd the implementation of this plan, and encourage and help initiate these actions. EXHIBIT A 4