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HOUSEL: Are there any incentives the school offers to encourage parents to carpool or use, you know, mass transit? STURGES: We do not offer any financial incentives there or other kinds of incentives to do it. HOUSEL: Would you consider that? STURGES: We could, yeah, I mean I would be very much in favor of getting people to do it, so, yes, I donÓt, we would certainly consider it. HOUSEL: Okay, thank you. WATANABE: DoesnÓt look like we have any further questions. So I guess itÓs Mr. RayÓs turn? MELROSE: No, IÓm going to, what IÓd like to do is just kind of start to talk a little bit about the conditions, touch on a couple of more issues, talk about the individual conditions, and that will give John a chance to actually talk about some of those things as well when we are done with that. So I just want to start with a comment that, you know, the lands that we are operating with Î there are a few circumstances in which you get exactly what you want Î but in this case we have the lands that we were provided initially by the Parker Ranch; they were owned by Parker Ranch prior. And I want to just draw your attention back to the property that Maija was talking about in the middle Î this piece right here. This is a kuleana; the family who owns that has owned this property since sometime near the Mhele. So their family is, the title is bust up by the family, s thereÓre still multiple heirs. All conversations about including it is a logical one; you want to think, oh, gee, why donÓt you get that property and use that for the school. The truth is itÓs in a Hawaiian family and the school respects that, to build a relationship with that. But it is kind of, itÓs a rock stuck right in the middle of the overall campus floor, and limits certain amount of circulation options and opportunities the school might have. But thatÓs simply the way it is and we live with that This property is, there was an old Òauwai here that you saw in the archaeological material, and this area here was actually identified as a kÒele or a poÒalima, a place where the chiefs were, or their food was produced and tended by the community over the years; itÓs actually named Kamakahonu. ItÓs a -. And LCA and several the others probably associated with that period of time in life in early HawaiÒi; so thatÓs part of what the school stewards there. The piece of the Òauwai is very clear along the edge but not, nothing is going to be done with that. But in any event, well, not only is that one of the key pieces, obviously itÓs relationship with this core intersection that has really been a problem for the community. Certainly, the school is not unaware of traffic issues in this community at all. We live with that every single day. The school has probably less than 25 percent of the total student population within a half mile, maybe EXHIBIT A 15