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MCKINNEY: I think that’s really the big question. ZELKO: That is the question. And they’re going to work with us on that. This is kind of a new thing, I think for Hawaii anyway. And so that’s why we’ve had a hard time fitting into something which is why initially I think they mistakenly put themselves into a special treatment facility which they never would have been able to -. I mean that was just not -. MCKINNEY: I’m not sure. I know the Commission had a lot of questions about that last time. And I think maybe -. It’s funny cause we really were trying to be regulated. And so we came in 2004 well ahead of probably where we should have been. I didn’t have an attorney, I filed everything myself, and still am trying to find out exactly what we are. There are numbers in terms of kids you serve and what you’re called. The Shirakawa offers us a commercial aspect as well. So we’re still really anxious to hear -. ISHIBASHI: Okay, the students we’re bringing in, what are they determined to be, what classification? Special ed, trouble makers, what, what -? MCKINNEY: We like to call them soft kids. They’re not trouble makers. They’re very compliant. Architecturally this is a voluntary program. So while they may be not all happy all the time it is on a voluntary basis. We call them participants. ZELKO: They do have a rather strict emissions policy. So if you have youths that have terrible drug problems they won’t accept them. Violent behavior they won’t accept them. So these are really, I mean, I know we talked about this. They are, they tend to be the people that maybe have been adopted and having a little issues about that, aggrieved, that kind of thing. ISHIBASHI: Being referred by whom, who’s referring this to -? MCKINNEY: These are all referring professionals. All of them therapists, or psychologists, educational consultants, people who work not just with troubled kids but then helping to place them outside of kind of out-patient therapy. ISHIBASHI: Mr. Chairman, thank you. WOODWARD: Commissioner Domingo. DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The way I look at it, my concern is having unpermitted structures on the property. Could somebody from the staff come up, please. What’s the zoning on that property right now? DARROW: Agricultural 20 acres. DOMINGO: Twenty acres. How many structures are allowed on this property at this time? 15 EXHIBIT B