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<br />st <br />TAGGART: I’m Reverend Taggart; and I reside at 31 and Paradise. <br /> <br />KERN: You may begin. <br /> <br />TAGGART: Yeah, it’s presently used by HAAS as a testing center. They have computers there. <br />Steve came to me back 12 years ago. The teachers were complaining about the inability to read of the <br />st <br />students that were entering their high school. And rather than complain they started a 1 grade class. <br />That class now is in the high school. And the present use for it is they have computers there, and they <br />bring children in three or maybe four times a week, never more than eight. Sometimes it’s used for <br />one or two for individual tutoring, and there are several teachers who have their offices within the <br />building. And they’d like the option of maybe going into a preschool, just like they went from high <br />school they started at a lower grade to get better educational results. <br /> <br />I also use it for teaching my classes to adults in the evening. I teach a philosophy called the Science of <br />Mind, an educational, spiritual, not overtly religious. We come from many diverse religious <br />backgrounds and look to see the commonality. So we’re a spiritual center and we’d like to put up a <br />meeting hall so we could meet on Sundays, occasionally during the week, perhaps a meditation <br />service. And that’s why we’ve come before you to modify this, to legitimize what we’ve already been <br />doing, and realized that it was beyond the parameters of the permit that was given. So we’d like to <br />bring that back into copacetic. <br /> <br />KERN: Any questions for the applicant? <br /> <br />DOMINGO: How large is your congregation? <br /> <br />TAGGART: My congregation technically is 75 people. We generally have 40 to 60 on a Sunday <br />meeting. Many of those people are not technically members. They’re not all big joiners. But they’re <br />contributors and they’re friends of the association. So I’d say less than 100. <br /> <br />KERN: Commissioner Ono? <br /> <br />ONO: Yes. Do you have any working understanding with the HAAS program in terms of a timetable <br />for them to either move out or is this a, you know -? <br /> <br />TAGGART: We do it on a yearly basis. <br /> <br />ONO: A yearly basis? <br /> <br />TAGGART: Yes. But there’s never been any discussion between Steve and I on leaving. <br /> <br />ONO: I see. <br /> <br />TAGGART: It generally comes back to, well, do you want to stay another year? <br /> <br />4 <br /> EXHIBIT B <br /> <br /> <br />