2021-12-21 Redistricting Commission minutes (11th Session)

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ARACELEY: There is one new testifier, a Patrice Macdonald, who is on the Zoom room. Would you like me to call them forward? KOSSOW: Yes, and then three minutes. Thank you. ARACELEY: Thank you very much, Chair. Patrice Macdonald, if you have testimony, you will be given three minutes to provide that testimony. You can unmute your mic at this point to provide that testimony. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS (part 2) PATRICE MACDONALD MACDONALD: We do not even have this working version of the map listed on the website. And District 5 is absolutely unacceptable to us because Kea`au belongs to HPP. Our entire district is in Pahoa. Which includes our Pahoa Park, our pool, our forest reserve of Wao O Kele, Kapoho, and Kalapana. And we have 80,000 vehicles from Pahoa driving our roads every day. We feel like that we should have a say in our district. We don't understand how none of the maps got posted on the redistricting site, working version. So, this would give us no town, no fire department, no shopping, no DMV, no fire department. It's just a chunk of kind of upper Puna slums. That absolutely meets no criteria. We thought by now you would move HPP back into Kea`au. And give us back our district. And the biggest problem with this is that, you know, elections are coming. All our candidates are in Pahoa district. Which is our district right now. And we would be without a vote. We already have no services. We got no CDP. We got absolutely no financial recovery from the lava. Recovery which only Hawaiian Acres paid for. And this leaves us with absolutely nothing. Wao o Kele Forest Reserve is our backyards. I live on Wao o Kele Forest Reserve. I don't want it in HPP district. And we don't want our town in HPP district. Which should be Kea`au. So, I sort of thought, since with so many people tried to testify, and nobody answers the phone. No one answered the emails. We thought we'd actually have a chance to redo this but. You spent so much time on Hilo moving seven hundred (700)people, and Kona moving a couple hundred people. We thought by now that we would actually get a district. But this meets no criteria for a district whatsoever. It's a little square. And it has no open space, no ocean, no town, nothing. So, anyway, we had forty-nine (49)people at my house one day, trying to testify on one iPad. And it didn't work because each person has to sign in individually. So, there's a lot of people not being heard. Just want to let you know. This map is not on your website. Your working version of this map. Thank you. UNFINISHED BUSINESS (continued) ARACELEY: Thank you, Chair. That was the only new testifier. It seems that we may have Elections in the Zoom room. Debbie, are you there? (No response.) Hello, Elections, 12