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GONZALES: Any other questions? Okay, thank you. We’d like to ask Michael Bishop, Wayne <br />Kanemoto, Layne Novak, and Randy Riley to come up. Could I have you all raise your right <br />hands, please? Do you swear to tell the truth before the Windward Planning Commission today? <br /> <br />TESTIFIERS: Yes. <br /> <br />GONZALES: Thank you. Use your microphones. State your name, where you live, and you <br />will have three minutes. Thank you. <br /> <br />BISHOP: Good morning. My name is Michael Bishop. I’m a Kaūmana resident. Throughout <br />this sorted action, there are two topics that have clearly come to define the foundation for this <br />special use permit sought by Connections Schools and their associates—objection and <br />speculation. <br /> <br />The applicant has speculated that the special use permit is the correct platform for the size and <br />scope of change its plans will impact on the leased agricultural lot. The applicant also speculates <br />its limited County water allotment should not restrict its Phase One build-out of barns, stables, <br />dormitories, caretaker’s residence, followed by Phase Two, money providing, of classrooms. <br />The applicant blindly speculates safety for the children, workers, and visitors would be <br />sufficiently addressed on a campus bound by hog wire, tightly surrounded by natural forest, <br />narrowly restricting the only entry/exit half a mile away up a hill. <br /> <br />Objections by the applicant can be summed in a simple phrase, “how long has this process been <br />going on.” As a community member of Kaūmana, I have speculated on whether this particular <br />lot was the most suitable plot out of all of the sites the State and the applicant had access to and <br />chose to review. I object to the thought that the County would be drawn into a State court over <br />the exercise of County due process. And the Windward Planning Board, as the Windward <br />Planning Board, object to speculation, provide sound guidance, and set proper precedence for our <br />Islands. <br /> <br />GONZALES: Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Bishop? Thank you. Sir. <br /> <br />KANEMOTO: Good morning. My name is Wayne Kanemoto, and I oppose the building of the <br />Connections Charter School in Kaūmana. The applicant has not convinced the Kaūmana <br />community, the hearing officer, and some members of this Commission that they should be <br />awarded a special permit. From my perspective as an educator and administrator, there are tasks <br />and information that Connections representatives have not done. The first one is the educational <br />specifications of standards for facilities provides what I consider to be an overarching or critical <br />factor. That is, to meet the needs of the community, this participatory process provides the <br />means of involving educators and the community and instilling a sense of pride and ownership in <br />their school. I believe that, that’s what Connections missed--to get in the community, as <br />evidenced by our testimony and our presence. <br /> <br />The other part is they had talked about needing 70 acres, but the selection, the site selection <br />criteria specifies, oh, well is a guideline and for a high school with a thousand enrollment, they <br />9 <br />EXHIBIT F <br /> <br /> <br />