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INTRODUCTION OF SUPPORT STAFF AND COMMISSIONERS <br />MELLON-LACEY: Our order of business today, and everyone has an agenda? Okay. <br />The first thing we'd like to do is introduction of support staff and Commissioners. I've <br />introduced myself. Can we have the rest of the support staff to introduce themselves? <br />We have Pat Nakamoto from the Elections Office. <br />NAKAMOTO: Hi, I'm Pat Nakamoto. I'm the Elections Program Administrator and our <br />office will help you with technical support. With me today is Cori Saiki. She is the <br />Elections Program Specialist for our office and we will both be providing technical <br />support to the Redistricting Commission. Thank you. <br />MELLON-LACEY: And, then we have Dennis. <br />KAUKA: Aloha everyone, my name is Dennis Kauka Jr. I'm a Legislative Specialist <br />with the Legislative Research Branch and I'll be the Secretary for the Commission and <br />your main contact person. I just want to thank and welcome all of you. Thank you for <br />working with us as we coordinated this first session today. I especially want to give a <br />thanks to Commissioners `Aina Akamu and Stephanie Bath who couldn't be here in <br />person today so we kind of had to work offline to get them sworn in separate ways but <br />thanks for their cooperation with that and to the Clerk's office for providing a lot of <br />support today. Thank you. <br />ROLL CALL <br />MELLON-LACEY: Okay so I'd like to do a roll call of the Commissioners. Meizhu Lui, <br />"Here," Jennifer Yadao, "Present," Dwayne Yoshina, "Here," Stephanie Bath, "As an <br />Observer." Thank you. `Aina Akamu, "Here via Zoom," Bronsten-Glenn Kossow, <br />"Here," Stephen Lopez, "Here," James Hustace "Present." Thank you and then I believe <br />we have a new nominee for District 3 but they have not been confirmed yet. Breeani <br />Sumera-Lee, are you in attendance? (Received no response.) I believe she was attending <br />as an observer but, thank you. <br />NOMINATIONS AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS <br />MELLON-LACEY: What I thought we would start with, because one of our first orders <br />of business in getting this commission up and rolling is for you to elect a Chair and Vice <br />Chair, would be for you each to introduce yourself and say a little bit about yourself and <br />your experience and your interest in serving on this Commission and if you're interested <br />in one of those positions, in being either the Chair or the Vice Chair of the Redistricting <br />Commission and to make this a little easier, I'm going to read the duties and powers of <br />the Chairperson and the Vice Chairperson so if you are interested, you'll know what <br />K <br />