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WATANABE:
<br />Okay, okay, very well.
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<br />MELROSE: ThatÓs fine. That was my intention. The next issue, itÓs the second No.
<br />12, otherwise known as 13 Î the Hele-On bus stop. The school is
<br />do this. The one concern is really, how do you cap that? What
<br />conversation with Mass Transit some time. TheyÓve done an island-wide review of bus stops,
<br />some hundred or so places in which they intend to construct bus stops. Waimea, this particular
<br />stop at the Waimea Park, is a priority for them; it will be in their first ten. They are already
<br />budgeted to build it and to have chosen a design of the facility, which is basically they are
<br />buying a package, this kind of a clear glass package with some domes over the top of it.
<br />Whatever the Mass Transit wants to do, the school is more than willing both to bring labor to it
<br />and to help construct it. Our concern is what we know about that now is that there is about, Tom
<br />Brown said that they are about $5,600 package; heÓs bought a bunch of them together so he can
<br />put them together. And the school has said for quite some time theyÓll give $5,000 or whatever
<br />to go purchase it. Now if the, there are other issues associated with the bus stop: ADA issues,
<br />paving on either side of those issues, there may be design questions that the community raises
<br />about that particular design and they want to make it look different. And I think the schoolÓs
<br />concern is just wanting to bind that commitment in a way that is clear to us going in that we
<br />donÓt just end up doing whatever whatever, okay? So our suggestion is that, you know, we are
<br />willing to, weÓve offered $5,000 that we do that formally, but the conversation with Tom Brown
<br />is they are already buying them, and if thatÓs what it cost and we need to pay for it, weÓll do that
<br />Î thatÓs not the issue. And theyÓll come willingly to help build them Î thatÓs not the issue, either.
<br />The issue of location, markings, all the ADA offsite kinds of things are all part of it, and we are
<br />just a little afraid of having to turn that into a $40,000 task for really what is a community bus
<br />stop. But if they could paint it red and white and make it look
<br />know, go, what, cowboys or whatever it is, thatÓs diff-. Huh? The bulls, yeah. But I donÓt think
<br />thatÓs what the community wants, either, so -. But they are ver
<br />an unequivocal yes to the issue, but weÓd like to be able to put some binds around the outside of
<br />that.
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<br />So, yeah, 16 is really an issue that I think is going to, youÓll hear a fair amount of comment from
<br />other people about. The concern is that this parking lot, which is now about, you know, itÓs a
<br />small area today, that intersection comes out right onto their, this turn on Lindsey and the end of
<br />Kawaihae Road. And what the Police Department had asked for was
<br />out a circulation pattern that would bring that traffic back to PuÒuk Road and/or back to
<br />KapiÒolani in some way so that there could be an in-and-out through the campus. The school has
<br />a real concern about that from a couple of perspectives, and maybe I should just let Carl talk to
<br />that because it is a real both community and educational issue t
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<br />STURGES: Yeah, my primary concern is the safety of my students, and running a road
<br />for drop-off and pick-up through the middle of the campus really gives me a cold chill. I mean
<br />th
<br />IÓve got everybody from kindergarteners through 12 graders, you know, moving through the
<br />campus and not always being aware the fact there would be cars; it kind of goes against all the
<br />literature IÓve read about, you know, creating open campuses and that sort of thing. But itÓs just
<br />primarily a safety issue that makes me very concerned. The other issue is that as a strategy, as a
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