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STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS <br /> KOSSOW: We're going to move over to statements from the public. Staff, can you <br /> confirm the amount of testifiers we currently have for today? <br /> KAUKA: Thank you, Chair. We currently have two testifiers signed up. One has <br /> requested to provide her testimony at the end of the agenda. So, at this time I'd like to <br /> call upon Mr. Jacob Aki from Common Cause Hawaii. Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Chair, if you <br /> wanted to make an announcement first. <br /> KOSSOW: Testifiers,please note, you will have three minutes for each item on the <br /> agenda to provide your statement. If you are speaking on multiple items,please indicate <br /> when you're transitioning. We kindly ask that you wait to be unmuted and called upon. If <br /> there are issues when you are called, after trying for some time, we may have moved on <br /> while staff tries to work with you offline and we'll try to get back to you. When there are <br /> thirty seconds remaining, we may indicate this to you and ask that you summarize. <br /> Before you speak, please state your name for the record and the item you are testifying <br /> on. Mr. Kauka? <br /> KAUKA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. The first testifier is Mr. Jacob Aki from Common Cause <br /> Hawaii. Mr. Aki, you may unmute yourself and you have three mintues. <br /> JACOB AKI <br /> AKL Thank you. Aloha, Chair, Vice-Chair, and members of the Hawaii County <br /> Commission. My name is Jacob Aki on behalf of Common Cause. Common Cause is a <br /> non-partisan, non-profit, grassroots organization dedicated to upholding the core values <br /> of Amercian democracy and ensuring a fair and transparent reapportionment and <br /> redistricting process. Common Cause would like to thank this Commission for taking our <br /> requests from the last meeting into consideration. We are glad to see that the Commission <br /> meeting is being streamed live on YouTube. And we also commend the Commission for <br /> honoring the intent of the Sunshine Law and allowing public testimony not just at the <br /> beginning, but at the end of the meeting as well. We have one item that we would like to <br /> continue to urge the Commission to do, which is to count incarcerated people according <br /> to their home addresses as of April 1, 2020, for the purposes of drawing council district <br /> lines. Including incarcerated persons in the population count for the district in which their <br /> facility is located alters representational preportions and as a result, the voting power of <br /> residents. Counting Hawai'i`s incarcerated population according to their home addresses <br /> will eliminate this particular issue and ensure an accurate and true reapportionment <br /> process. We have attached information on how to do this but we would like to again, <br /> thank the Commission for your hard work and for your dedication to this process. Thank <br /> you. <br /> KOSSOW: Thank you, Mr. Aki. Mr. Kauka, is there any more testifers for today? <br /> 3 <br />