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with the previous speakers, I think that asking the charter school to pay for road improvements, traffic <br />lights, median strips, turning lanes, all of this stuff – I mean you’re talking hundreds of thousands of <br />dollars. I mean are we running an education program or are we in Public Works as a charter school? <br />So I support Mr. Hong’s amendments, whatever they might be because I’m sure they’re going to speak <br />to, I haven’t read them but I’m sure they’re going to speak to these requests for the applicant and its <br />successor or assignees to be responsible for complying with all of the stated conditions of approval. So <br />these stated conditions of approval need to be amended to allow the school to do what they do, which <br />is educate and provide opportunities for our young people. So I hope that you’ll take a look at that <br />very carefully and can support Mr. Hong’s amendments to this application. Thank you very much. <br />KERN: Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, Aruna Dee, name and district you <br />represent, and you may begin. <br />DEE: Hi. I’m Aruna Dee. I’m a parent. My daughter goes to HAAS School. She’s in the same <br />grade as Mailia. And I live in Pāhoa. I’m here basically to support this school. Just like Malia said if <br />the permit is not granted where will these kids go? I don’t want my daughter to go where she was <br />before because she was bullied right from the beginning from kindergarten. The school did bring in an <br />anti-bullying program but it wasn’t supported by the principal, because I was part of the program. And <br />there was no funding, so I supported it financially when it wasn’t going anywhere. My daughter is a <br />very bright student but bullying brought her down emotionally. And she couldn’t really concentrate on <br />what she was going to school for. Every day she came home complaining that this kid bullied her; and <br />I would be there asking the teachers, asking the principal – the principal was hard to work with so I’m <br />not going to go there. But like Malia said, Malia has said a lot of things that I wanted to say. And we <br />have to support the students. This is for the future of our kids, not us. So better school, better kids, <br />better people, better citizens we have. That’s all I have to say. Thank you. <br />KERN: Thank you. Any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, Kahea Nakila, name and district. <br />NAKILA: I’m Kahea Nakila. I am a senior at Hawaii Academy of Arts and Sciences. What I would <br />like to say to support this is that I’ve been at HAAS since eighth grade. So I was there when there was <br />a ten and there was only like two buildings, so I’ve seen it grow. And one thing that I really love about <br />the school is the environment, and how Malia and the parent has said that it’s really close and all our <br />students are connected. It’s like family at our school with such small classrooms. Everybody is <br />connected. There’s no fights, there’s no bullying, even with the anti-bullying program we put that in <br />because there was one incident. And even the smallest incident they put that in so that we can keep <br />our school a bully free school and that there would be no fighting at our school and everything. <br />Another thing I would like to support is our education. They have recently developed programs for our <br />students for different learning styles. They have a Running Start Program that allows juniors and <br />seniors to enroll in college early while still attending the school. They also have a math program so <br />that students if they don’t work well with the teacher in the classroom environment they have an online <br />program. So HAAS really support different learning styles. The other public schools don’t. I think it <br />was Mr. Hirakami who was saying that public schools have a really strict schedule and HAAS allows <br />students to break away from that and really let them study what they want to learn. And that’s pretty <br />much it, that it’s really environmentally based and a great community. Thank you. <br />KERN: Thank you very much. Any questions for the testifier? Seeing none, you all may have a set. <br />Thank you. Just a quick bit of housekeeping, if you do have any written testimony that you’re going to <br />submit, please submit it to Sharon Nomura over here by the desk by the microphone, by the speaker, <br />12 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br /> <br /> <br />