2021-10-28 Redistricting Commission minutes (6th Session)

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KOSSOW: Okay. I'll give it a second. Thank you. (Meeting paused.) KAUKA: Chair, thank you for the time. It looks like we have the plan from Ms. Ford that we're discussing now projected on the screen. Commissioners here have it on their laptops as well if you want to proceed. KOSSOW: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Kauka. Thank you, staff. Any Commissioners would like to start it off? HUSTACE: Chair. KOSSOW: Mr. Hustace. HUSTACE: Yeah, I'll dive in here if we could have kind of an open conversation about this map. I think we'll have a number of these conversations as we project the other Commissioner maps up as well. I kind of like to look at different parts of Ms. Ford's map. Just to have a kind of open conversation about this. I'd actually like to start where Ms. Ford draws the boundary line between 8 and 9,just south of Waikoloa Village. I know there's no one living in that tract of land, but to be—(During this time, Commissioner Hustace paused to give direction to staffprojecting Ms. Ford's map on the screen). Just south of Waikoloa Village there, as you can see on the screen, there's a big empty tract of land. Just south of Waikoloa Road. Kind of in the midst of where the Daniel K. Inouye Extension would have been or could be potentially someday down the road. There is just a little bit further on your screen there. Just a little bit further down. I would put that all in District 9. Personally,just to make it a contiguous stretch of land there. So, you have kind of a defined boundary that connects the upper road and the lower road. Just a little bit. You can zoom out or whatever you need to do to see that whole tract of empty land there. You see that where it kind of pops in towards Waikoloa Village. I would just put that—since there's no one living there it really wouldn't matter which way you flip it but, I would just put it all in District 9 since you made that cut out towards District 9. Okay, so that's one idea. Then I would like to go down towards Kona and Kona proper towards the pier and Kailua Bay. I want to give props to Ms. Ford. One of the District's she hit right on the nose with 22,232, but we'll get to that in a moment. I'm just curious from the Commissioners representing our Kona areas, their thoughts on the boundary between 7 and 8 here. We see all of Kailua Bay is in 7. I just need to know a little bit more about their feelings on this and what residents would feel of the boundary like this. KOSSOW: Mr. Lopez. LOPEZ: Representing District 8, I think it's an extremely large deviation historically. I think that the Kailua town and the neighborhood surrounding it, including where the Civic Center sits, has been in District 8 for so long that I think that it's too major of a 7