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STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS <br /> HUSTACE: And for our testifiers, looking at our agenda today. We will grant you time <br /> here, either at the beginning if you do not wish to stay with us for the duration of today's <br /> meeting. I will also allow you an opportunity to speak after the Commissioners on posted <br /> agenda items if you so wish. If you are speaking as a testifier on multiple items,please <br /> indicate which item you are speaking to. We will kindly ask you to wait to be unmuted <br /> and then we will call upon you. If there are issues when you are called, after trying some <br /> time, we may have to move on while staff tries to work with you offline. And then we <br /> will revisit with you. As providing testimony, you will have three minutes on each of the <br /> items posted. When there are thirty seconds remaining in your allotted time, we will <br /> indicate this to you and ask you to summarize. And before you speak, please state your <br /> name for the record and item that you are testifying on. Mr. Kauka, do we have any <br /> testifiers this morning? <br /> KAUKA: Mr. Vice Chair, we currently have two testifiers who have registered, and both <br /> have indicated they'd like to testify at this time. First is Mr. Jacob Aki from Common <br /> Cause Hawaii. Mr. Aki, you may begin. <br /> JACOB AKI <br /> AKL Aloha, Chair, Vice Chair, and members of the Commission. My name is Jacob Aki <br /> on behalf of Common Cause. Common Cause is a non-partisan, non-profit, grassroots <br /> organization dedicated to upholding the core values of democracy and ensuring a fair and <br /> transparent reapportionment and redistricting process. Common Cause offers a sincere <br /> gratitude to this Commission for it's attempt to work to count incarcerated peoples <br /> according to their home addresses as of April 1, 2020 for the purposes of drawing the <br /> Council district lines. We ask that the Commission consider including this issue in your <br /> final report with a prompt for the County Council to affect the Charter amendment <br /> ensuring the fair and equitable count of incarcerated persons at their home address in <br /> future rounds of the Hawaii County redistricting process. Common Cause also wants to <br /> be sure that any proposed maps considered by the Commission will not dilute the voting <br /> strength of the Native Hawaiian people. To this end, attached in our testimony, please <br /> find a map showing the distribution of Native Hawaiian population on Hawaii Island <br /> based on the American Community Survey, or also known as ACS. Unfortunately, the <br /> U.S. census does not desegregate the data to that level so we are forced to use ACS as our <br /> primary resource. But we want to also thank each and every one of you for the work that <br /> you folks are doing. And I am available for comments if there are any questions. Thank <br /> you. <br /> HUSTACE: Thank you, Mr. Aki. Fellow Commissioners, do you have any questions for <br /> Mr. Aki at this time? (No response.) Hearing none. Thank you, Mr. Aki. We appreciate <br /> you joining us this morning. Mahalo. <br /> AKL Thank you, Vice Chair. <br /> 3 <br />