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

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HUSTACE: On the left. LOPEZ: You've got a hundred and . You have quite a few census blocks in there. HUSTACE: Three seventy-four (374). LOPEZ: Yeah. You have to start from the bottom up. Yeah. How does that shift? Makes it a little better. Okay, stop there. HUSTACE: So, that puts Council 7 at negative 4.07, negative 904. Council 8, negative 2.78, negative 617. LOPEZ: Okay. BATH: Commissioner Bath. What were those numbers again? Population numbers. HUSTACE: So, Council 7 is at negative 4.07. That's negative nine hundred and four (904) individuals. Council 8 is negative 2.78, negative 617. LOPEZ: I'd like to then yield at this point`cause I think the numbers are close enough. It satisfies the testimony I heard this morning and carried over from last week on the mauka portion. So, I'd like to yield and go over and allow Chair Kossow to provide input. Thank you. KOSSOW: Thank you, Mr. Lopez. Can you scroll up just a little bit? Thank you. So, this is very similar to one of my three proposals that I had. Three different ideas. There's mixed feelings, I think, in the community just in general. You know, one says the other thing, one says another. So, it's going to be—Either way we try to divvy it up, you're going to have people not be satisfied with the outcome. I do agree with Mr. Lopez's changes onto the Honok6hau. I'm a little bit worried on the Ke6pu Mauka side. But there's nothing we can really do about the makai portions. Because the census blocks runs all the way through that mauka—makai in between. As you can see, it runs through that area. And one portion is, you know, you have subdivisions and then the other portion you have nothing. So, I'm a little bit concerned about that. A little bit outside of our reach because of the census, the block irregularities. And then my other issue would be those on the southern portion of Nani Kailua. Now, I understand that three hundred and seventy-four (374)—May you scroll down there? Now, majority of these individuals belong to that subdivision on kind of the mauka portions. That's where you can kind of see those roadways in there. But there's a lot of people that's within that one street on the south side. So, if it was divvied up, I mean, it would be a lot easier to complete this task. But obviously, we have to make a hard decision here. And I think that this is perhaps the best that we can accomplish here, based off of compromise here. To that I yield. Is there any other discussions? HUSTACE: Chair. 26