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

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well as upper Mountain View, would lean more to Council 5, than it would to Council 6. Just in mere totality of not going in and out of a district to get to another district with those. I'm still trying to find my way around the rules. And so, forgive me for having to speed up my catch up. But as far as, I think everything that has been shared, this is probably the map that would be most fitting. I yield. KOSSOW: Thank you, Ms. Ah Nee. Any other discussion? LUL I wondered if you could zoom in to look at the Keaukaha-Pana`ewa area there. HUSTACE: Chair. KOSSOW: Mr. Hustace. HUSTACE: Thank you. So, I think, Ms. Lui, the Pana`ewaSo, with this map here, Working Draft 1, also titled Draft 12 here, Pana`ewa, Keaukaha, and even the Waiakea Homelands are all kind of in the they're in the same, in the same seat here. So, Bronsten did a good job of keeping them here together. The one that I do have concern is actually in the Waimea area where—It's only a portion of it, but it is splitting the Pu`u Kapu Homelands along Mana Road. So there is a split there, and I just don't want to dilute that vote either. It's a weird—so if you zoom up, go up a little bit more. Let's see if I can try and walk you through this here. (Vice Chair Hustace continued to guide staff projecting the map onto the screen.) So, this kind of grayer area here, that's marked as Pu`u Kapu. But it even includes that reservoir up there. Which pushes into a community called Lakeland and out towards Vacationland. There even is a community off of Kipu`upu`u Street there, right at the top of that reservoir. So, it's hard—This is a hard community because we solve our maps, split it at Mealani Road, which is part of that. It also cuts into Pu`u Kapu. So just trying to be cognizant of that too. I mean Mana is a good breakline line for If it wasn't down the middle of a Homeland, it'd be a good breaking line. But it does cut off that community and breaks that community there. So, I struggled to do that, as the Chair did as well with these maps. It's a clear line that wraps around Mauna Kea, but I don't know if it's the best one. I look forward to hearing from those community members about that as well. Thank you. KOSSOW: Thank you, Mr. Hustace. I know that one is a super tough one. I have an aunt that lives in Kamoku, in the Hawaiian Homelands there. And, you know, that's also been in Council 1, but she calls herself a Waimea resident. Any other discussion? BATH: Yeah. Commissioner Hustace KOSSOW: Ms. Bath. BATH: Yeah. I really like that on this version, Commissioner Lopez's area looks good. I really like that P6hakuloa is in District 3. I think that if that line for Hamakua and Hilo gets corrected, that'll work. I was looking at the numbers on the deviations, and I'm thinking maybe we could just do something with District 7, and District 6, to give them a 25