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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 `Rina 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. `Rina 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 /> 2 <br />