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And the financing, you know, we’re not encumbered by the big bureaucracy. In other words, it doesn’t <br />take two months to get something purchased. We can get something purchased and shipped to us in <br />three days. We can purchase on the internet. So just in procurement and the needless waste that at the <br />end of the year it’s spend it or lose it thinking in the Department of Education, that has to end. There <br />needs to be, you know, more business thinking in education. And I think with Cathy Matayoshi at the <br />helm I think there will be great changes, yeah. <br />DOMINGO: Yeah. I’d just like to add also that there have been a number of teachers from public <br />schools who have opted to going into charter schools to work in there; and I think it speaks well of the <br />whole concept of charter schools. And, lastly, Ted Hong mentioned that this whole process was like <br />that song the Beatles made popular, the “Long and Winding Road.” I liked the Beatles. One of my <br />favorite songs was “Imagine.” I was wondering if Ted could sing that song for us now (Laughter). <br />HONG: You know, Mr. Domingo, I would but this cold is kind of holding me back, you know <br />(Laughter). <br />DOMINGO: Okay, thank you. <br />KERN: Any other questions, Fellow Commissioners? Seeing one, a little housekeeping, you’ve got <br />the recommendation and conditions. Do you agree with those conditions? <br />HONG: We agree with the recommendations and conditions, with the exception of the changes that <br />we proposed and submitted to the Chair and the Commission. <br />KERN: Very good. Thank you. Great, you all may have a seat. We’ll start the public testimony. <br />HONG: Thank you. <br />KERN: Yeah, thank you. I’m going to call six testifiers at a time. Come up and have a seat and then <br />you’ll testify in the order in which you are called. So, first, Rob Tucker, Jon Olson, Malia Becker, <br />Brooks Maloof, Aruna Dee, and Kahea Nakila. I’ll swear you all in at the same time. If you can all <br />raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning <br />Commission? <br />TESTIFIERS: I do. <br />KERN: Very good. So before you start your testimony, just state your name and the district in which <br />you represent, and then you may begin. It’s going to be three minutes. You ready there, Julie? <br />MECKLENBURG: Yes. <br />TUCKER: Yes, I’m Rob Tuckers with Friends of Puna’s Future and I live in the Pāhoa village. We <br />had submitted written testimony a few days ago. I believe you all have that in hand, so I’m not going <br />to try and regroup that. We did just this morning got to read some of the recommendations. <br />Specifically of concern to us are the ones requiring a nonprofit charter school to be making rapid <br />improvements on a State Highway and on County road at its own expense. Quite frankly we find this a <br />little astounding. <br />One of the points I’d like to make is I have been in discussions with Public Works a number of times <br />over the last several years. At no point in time has a road in limbo ever been mentioned by Public <br />Works in regard to Post Office Road. In every occasion I’ve dealt with Public Works, it has been a <br />County road, and they have recognized it as such. I do not know where the term road in limbo has <br />suddenly manifested itself. We are interested in just by what manner or, government organizes itself, <br />9 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br /> <br /> <br />