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Statler Gilfillen: One other question and please correct me if I am not permitted here to ask this question, this is 770 neighborhood you’re talking about building a high school right there because it’s a charter school and it requires a certain 771 lottery, can exemption be made for the neighbors who within a certain walking distance- their children, somebody who 772 has a job who wants to go to this school, they’ll have a first priority? 773 774 Patrick Byker: I believe that would conflict with state law, that’s not my area of expertise. To my knowledge it’s a blind 775 lottery. That’s my understanding. 776 777 Statler Gilfillen: A lot of persons that could be something that could be very favorable to many of the neighbors, and 778 might be positive I just don’t know either. 779 780 Melissa Poole: As a parent with children in charter school, I mean lotteries are done with deputy sheriffs, it is blind it is 781 anonymous and it is a draw. 782 783 Patrick Byker: That’s from Murphy to Manteo. 784 785 Statler Gilfillen: That would affect anybody on our team that their children would want to go to their school, would have to 786 go to the same lottery? 787 788 Patrick Byker: Yes, absolutely, that’s right. 789 790 Beth Bronson: You mentioned that there was going to be 150 students in the first year. Now that we have figured out it 791 would only be the high school, the lower school is pending. However the conditional, master plan development includes 792 a lower school. So the construction would move forward on that school regardless? 793 794 Patrick Byker: No, that would be somewhere down the road. 795 796 Beth Bronson: Okay, but you would have to leave, I’m just wanting to make sure I understand the master plan. You will 797 not be coming back to advisory board or permission of any change? 798 799 Patrick Byker: Unless we change what was shown on the plan today, that is correct. 800 801 Beth Bronson: But not if you don’t build it? 802 803 Patrick Byker: Correct. 804 805 Beth Bronson: And then, last presentation you said that the schools would take up one baseball field and one soccer 806 field, was there any allocation of the schools to the recreational field? 807 808 Patrick Byker: I don’t believe so, I’m sorry Joey couldn’t be here tonight. 809 810 Beth Bronson: Okay, thank you for that clarification. Are you representing HYAA as well as the? 811 812 Patrick Byker: I do not represent HYAA, that is the presidential development team. They brought forward the proposal 813 that incorporates the utility to HYAA. 814 815 Beth Bronson: If you’re not representing the school then that question does not matter. And then, there is no body from 816 the school here today? 817 818 Patrick Byker: We have board members. 819 820 Beth Bronson: I wanted to know from the board members if you can speak to it- were there any other sites reviewed for 821 this high school that you know of? What was that process like? And how did you end up here on this one? 822 823 19