2021-09-09 Redistricting Commission minutes (2nd Session)

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username and password that you just created, and then click sign in. The first time you do this, you’ll be prompted for a security question and answer. Just like in other online applications, there’s a variety of choices for the security question. Choose the question of your choice, and provide an answer. Once you’ve done that, go ahead, click the okay button. Once again, this is an application with ESRI and Office of Elections, and it wants to make sure you’re going to sign in to this application using your user account and you click yes, allow. There’s a usual agreement, licensing agreements. Read through the whole thing if you want. If you want to use the app, go down and click agree. And that opens the application, at which point you see a choice of template plans. At this point, we have two template plans to choose from. They’re both for the Congressional. A blank plan where— JONES (speaking over the recorded video): There’s acutally four now. I don’t know if you can hear me, but you will see two council ones on their now, since I made the video. JONES (via recorded video presentation): —neither of the two Hawaiʻi Congressional districts. The second plan is the current plan. So weʻve taken the current district boundaries, for Districts 1 and 2, and assigned all census blocks to whatever their current boundary is. So that’s the plan we’re going to go ahead and open. That’s the only two we have right now but we do, in the future, right now we anticipate September 10th, we should have then, the template plans for the State Senate and State House by basic island unit. So similiar to what you’ll see today for the Congressional, you’ll be able to start if you’re interested more in doing State Senate on Maui say, you could go in and choose one of those templates and start working on your own plan. The difference between blank and current, a lot of times people have found in the past, and when I’ve worked with past commissions, that it’s easier to start from the current districts and adjust them, then to start from blank. But you have both choices and you can choose whichever you want. Also looking to the future, at some point, the Commission will propose a set of plans that will go out for public hearing. At the time that happens, those proposed plans will also become available in Hawaiʻi Redistricting Online. And there again, past experiences show, this is where we get the most use of the online application. Once the Commission has proposed a plan, members of the public go in and start with one of those proposed plans and then start suggesting other changes they’d like to see the Commission make. Right now, there’s only two to get started, Congressional. And we’re going to go ahead and use the current because again, that’s the one that I think most people find most useful. Starting from the current districts, I’ll select that template, current, and click the okay button. When I do that, then the application itself opens. We see a map, we see some district information down below. We see a set of tools, so there’s different tabs as we go. This is the file tab with a set of tools on it. One will use first, is the save as when we want to take a plan and save it as our own. You’ll also in the future, might use save. As you’re making changes, you’ll want to save those changes. You may also want to use open. You may have multiple plans you’re working with. You’ll want to save one, open another. So this file tab is one you’ll use for managing the plans that you have. 17