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KOSSOW: Alright, calling the meeting back to order. Is everybody—looks like we have
<br /> three and then Ms. Lui. And Mr. Akamu is on Zoom. Yeah, okay. So, we just finished the
<br /> alternate plans. We're moving over to draft plans. This one's a little bit lengthier. This is
<br /> all the Commissioners that have submitted their plans. I believe we have one from
<br /> myself, one from Ms. Bath, one from Mr. Lopez, and about a hundred from Mr. Hustace.
<br /> (Laughter.) Why don't we go ahead and start with Mr. Hustace? Do the bulkiest one first.
<br /> I kind of liked Draft number 3 and Draft number 7. One of the concerns, and I would
<br /> probably like to yield to Ms. Bath, if she would, is Draft 3 is placing HPP and Orchidland
<br /> and `Ainaloa into one district. And then the second Puna district is kind of around that.
<br /> I'm not too sure where Orchidland kind of finishes. I thought it was at 40'h Avenue but, I
<br /> don't know. Ms. Bath, do you know?
<br /> BATH: Excuse me. Can you try wait? I'm trying to find the map that we're talking about
<br /> here.
<br /> KOSSOW: Looks like staff is pulling it up right now. But if you go to under open, and
<br /> then it's Draft number 3 by Mr. Hustace.
<br /> HUSTACE: Chair, would you like me to dive in on this one?
<br /> KOSSOW: Yeah, go ahead.
<br /> HUSTACE: I'll override then. Okay. Well, this one, this map I submitted. Most of the
<br /> maps I submitted, and I do have another couple other maps in the works as well. But, of
<br /> the maps I submitted, this is the one that is my most drastic map I created. Because I took
<br /> into consideration how big Commissioner Akamu's District 6 was. You know, if you can
<br /> disregard the numbers of the districts, their numbers are the numbers. We can switch
<br /> those around later. So, I don't see a problem with that. But, you know, District 6
<br /> currently is very huge. We've had testifiers talk about how large the district is and how
<br /> the services are very split across the districts. So, this is the most drastic map I had here. I
<br /> made a lot of concessions on different parts of the map. So, if we want to start on the east
<br /> side of the island, this is where I talk about, or why Paradise Park has such a large
<br /> population base, that I had to find other areas around it that are of like mind and of like
<br /> service to be included in the same place. So, I did stretch across, sometimes what people
<br /> would call, the geographic boundary of that, of the 130 there, Highway 130. So, I did try,
<br /> to the best of my knowledge, to understand Orchidland and `Ainaloa Subdivisions are
<br /> and absorb those into the HPP area. So, it does stretch across the highway, but it got me
<br /> to that number. It's, you know, 96 short, but that's really darn close for an area that's
<br /> already that densely populated. I did try to use other particular boundaries in that area.
<br /> Now I know this draws an issue of contiguity, right? Where you have Council 4 all of a
<br /> sudden, goes all the way out to Kapoho and people to get to other parts of District 4
<br /> would have to go through a couple other districts. And then that, District 4, goes all the
<br /> way down and goes around Na`alehu on the south end of the island. But, this was kind of
<br /> where I was trying to think about, how can I split District 6? I was really kind of—this
<br /> was my impetus for this drawing and this draft plan here. In doing so, it did shift our
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