2011-05-04 Windward transcript HAAS

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KERN: Thank you very much. Now trying to get back to the order in which we are conducting our business. I’d be willing to entertain a motion. Commissioner Au. AU: I make a motion to approve applicant Arts and Sciences Center Special Permit 11-115 with the recommendations of the Planning Commission with amendments that Mr. Hong has. DOMINGO: Second. KERN: Motion has been made and seconded. Discussion? I’ll jump in on this real quick. You know the amendments that were presented don’t actually speak to a significant amount of money that will be needed to be paid out. They partially do, but I just don’t necessarily see that. Or if you’re trying to just say that you want this to be Condition 9, I think there needs to be some clarification there, and so we can find a way to work with this and come to an agreeable solution to keep the school going. HONG: Well, Mr. Chairman, I appreciate your concern and the concern expressed by the Commission. Going back to the song theme, it’s kind of like the Rolling Stone’s song, “You don’t Always Get What you Want, You Get what You Need.” The recommendation submitted by the Planning Department we can live with. We don’t like it. It’s going to cost us money. It’s going to divert resources away from education in terms of our students. But can we live with them? Yes. Do we like them? Absolutely not. And in terms of Condition No. 9 and the amendments proposed to Condition No. 8, we feel that those are reasonable amendments to the proposed recommendations by the Planning Department and the Director. Again, what we appreciate also in the recommendation of the Planning Director and the Department was that within five years if it doesn’t look like we can muster the resources, we have the opportunity to extend it another five years. We’re very mindful that the State doesn’t have money, the County doesn’t have money, and certainly our school doesn’t have money. So we’re hoping that within the next five years, or certainly if we come in for an extension within those extended five years that we can partner and generate or find those resources. The thing you can absolutely count on from our school is that we’re going to find the creative, we’re going to find the out-of-the-box way to get this done. KERN: Okay, bear in mind that, you know, five years from now you may have a different staff, you may have a different department here. I’m a little bit peeved at the State because our roads suck. We don’t get nothing from the State. It’s a really bad thing. And so do we have to go give this money to improve the State road? I mean we’re really trying to do that for our community; and the intent of it is to keep our community safe and our road safe. But it’s a challenge. I’m having a hard time with it. I’m have a really hard time with this condition myself. I think the intent of it makes sense to me that we have these safe roads. Again, I drive there all the time and the roads aren’t really that bad. I would think based on, you know, having a faith that, you know, five years from now if you do need to have that extension being done -. But the bottom line is you could come in there and the director could say no, good luck, I want it done there. HONG: You’re correct. And we’re proceeding along the path of we think that everybody is going to act in good faith. And we think that in terms of the Planning Director, whoever is around at the end of five years will hopefully agree that given the circumstances that we would be entitled to or deserve an 20 EXHIBIT A