2021-10-25 Redistricting Commission Public Hearing minutes (District 5)

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understand what the proposals are, I'm sure we'd love to offer feedback and help make those as fair and tidy as they can be. Thank you. HUSTACE: Mahalo. ARACELEY: Chair, I believe that is everyone in the physical room who has signed up to provide testimony. HUSTACE: Thank you, Relley. I'm willing to give those that wanted to say a little bit more an additional three minutes if they would like. ARACELEY: Okay. (Pause.) HUSTACE: Aloha. Good to see you again. EDWARDS HUNT: Hi. Tiffany Edwards Hunt. I just want to reiterate, please email me these proposed maps: newswoman@mac.com. I'd also like to participate in Thursday's meeting via Zoom. So, I'd love a Zoom invite. What I can see,just on looking at the Redistricting Commission map from 2011, and looking at the numbers, is most definitely Council District 7 should take Captain Cook, kind of go down a little bit further. Because that's always been an issue actually, is that District 6 wraps all the way around its (indiscernible) Volcano and goes all the way into Captain Cook. But if District 7 could go down a little bit—District 8. I know that this is really hard, like I said in my previous testimony. And I also want to correct the record. The Council—The County website is awful. This is very challenging. The State website is what I'm looking at on my phone. It's very challenging. Even though CoriI gotta.compliment Cori for helping me. I still can't figure out what map I'm on. But every single map that I think I'mI think I'm on a different map. I see that Council District 4 isor excuse me, District 3 is taking part of Hawaiian Paradise Park, the lower part. If there is another one, it's trying to split up Paradise Park. I have a lot of reservations about that. I do think that it is a challenge for District 5 to take Kalapana. I would venture to say, if you're going to try to do a mauka makai thing, then make District 4 include Kalapana. Because I think that if we could ever get our roads back, they will actually be contiguous, and that lower community would be able to relate to each over. More so than the upper Puna. It's always been a really ridiculous district, District 5, when it wraps all the way down into `Opihikao. I can't remember where the actual line is, right past Sea View maybe. But it's absolutely ridiculous and I hope it gets corrected this time. If you have to split Pahoa in half, make it the mauka to makai in order to save some of the subdivisions from being split up, then I think you should do that. But, we need the three districts. Puna needs the three districts. And I don't know where you're gonna find your boundary for Council District 3, but I believe that Puna rightfully is getting that third council seat because of the massive growth. I mean I look at the numbers and you can just see the massive growth, so. He just gave me my time out, so I have to leave after this. I have my owner timer and I'm going to pass the baton to Hope now. Thank you. Aloha. HUSTACE: Mahalo nui. 6