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

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name. I call it Congressional Ko Olina to CD2. This Congressional plan proves the total plan deviation to 0.06 percent by moving blocks around Ko Olina from CD1 to CD2. Okay, and then I click the okay button. I notice up on top, the name of the plan has changed. It is now my plan, Congressional Ko Olina to CD2. And I can continue working on it if I want. I might want to, before I do anything else, check the integrity, run some of these checks like looking for deviation and other things. So I click in the review tab. I can click check integrity. It will go through a do a number of checks for us, including a maximum deviation check and a bunch of others. If it does not pass some of them, you can click a details button or a zoom to button. But in this case, everything looks good. I’ll just click the X and close that window. So it’s passed those test. I may want to still share it with some other people. Get their feedback on it but maybe, I’m ready right now. I like my plan. I want to submit it to the Commission for their consideration, and I’m going to move over to the submit tab where there is really only one tool, one button, and that is the submit plan button. So before you click that, again, keep in mind these guidelines. The plan, the Hawaiʻi Reapportionment/Redistricting will follow these guidelines or the Commission’s plans will and plans from the public should, wherever practicable, follow these same guideines. And when we submit in fact, those same integrity checks that we did before in the review tab, as soon as you say I want to submit my plan, it will run those same integrity checks. And if it does not pass one of them, you cannot yet submit the plan. You’ll have to go back and then fix things using those tools that I showed you. But if everything passed, and we know it will because we already checked, then we go ahead and click the okay button to continue submitting our plan. Here it will ask—so it knows you name. You can change it if you want but by default put your username and user email. The plan name is the one you gave it. And this is an important part to fill in, explanation of the plan objectives. Why did you do this plan the way you did? And in this case my objective lowered the total deviation by moving blocks from Ko Olina from CD1 to CD2 and we lowered it to 0.06 percent. This is very helpful as the Commission is reviewing these plans submitted from the public. These explanations can really help as we’re looking at those plans and comparing them with the Commission’s plans and other plans submitted by the public. So once you’ve filled in this information, you go ahead and click submit plan. At that point, it wants to make sure. So if you’re sure you want to submit it, you’re going to click okay because once you submit it, it’s locked in place because the Commission then, will need to to review it and start working on it, comparing it to other plans. So we can’t have it changing during that process. So as soon as you click okay here, your plan is going to be locked. It cannot be changed. And so I clicked okay, now it tells me that my plan’s been submitted. If you want to continue making changes, you save as to create a copy. So, I’ll go ahead and click okay which takes me back to my map. So if I want to continue exploring and try to make something even better which would probably be pretty hard but, you never know. Then I would click save as and this would become—I’d give it a new name and I can continue working with that plan. So that’s a tour of the main tools you need to create a plan, review that plan, and if you want, submit it to the Commission. 21