2021-11-23 Redistricting Commission minutes (8th Session Part 1)

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thinking. I'm open to what you're doing. I'm just wondering how we're going to be able to get the numbers right on District 4, if you're putting the Park and all of upper Puna into District 5. I think it's gonna just bring the numbers way up. But I'm open to learning and working with that. And I do like the fact that kept everything in lower Puna, as lower Puna. It was just that the swapping of the names is really confusing for the people that are living here. But thank you so much. I yield. KOSSOW: Thank you, Ms. Bath. We're going to do a five-minute recess. We'll convene back here at 10:56. Thank you. (Five-minute recess.) KOSSOW: Alright, calling meeting back to order. We're still on Draft 9.1, if I'm reading that correctly. Is there any further discussion regarding 9.1? (No response.) Alright. We're going to go ahead and move over to Bronsten Kossow Draft 12. I didn't see anything that said Working Draft Document. Staff, is that available? I know that we were planning on naming it that. (Pause.) I think that's the one. (Pause while staff worked on projecting the map onto the screen.) I don't know what the difference between Original and 12 is. So, I think we're just going to have to . Yeah, we'll just do that one. The only difference is based off of what I changed around. If you scroll down into between 5, 3, and 4, in HPP. The only difference, the change that I made, was the discussion with Ms. Bath, was to put these four census blocks into District 4. And then also include a few of the census blocks from Council District 3 into Council District 4. So, that's the only difference from this map that's currently up. I'll open it up for discussion. (No response.) I did also add P6hakuloa Training Area, or PTA, into KMR. So, it's going to be in Council District 3, if you want to scroll up there. I know that Mr. Yoshina talked a little bit about that as well. LUL I can start, Commissioner Kossow. KOSSOW: Ms. Lui. LUL Yeah,just quickly. I see that you put the southern boundary back at the Wainaku River. I think you had it at Waianuenue before. I do so prefer to have it a little bit farther up to get away from the people who do identify as Hilo. I think with the splitting up of Waimea, I had the same issues that you and everybody else has had with trying to decide how much of Waimea to put in 1 versus 9. But I really have to yield to Commissioner Hustace on that, who knows that community better than I do. So, I don't have a lot of comments. I see you've taken more of it in order to add population. Which when I was working on it, I had to do that too. But, yeah, I yield. KOSSOW: Thank you, Ms. Lui. Any other discussion? Mr. Lopez. LOPEZ: As a discussion, are we prepared to go over to west Hawaii? KOSSOW: Absolutely. 22