Communication 12.2 Questions and Answers from Brenda Ford

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Governor. Corporation Counsel is legally required to provide training for you. While you are waiting for the numbers to arrive, training would provide an advantage that will pay great dividends in the future. 8.How do we use our deputy corporation counsel most efficiently? A:Mr. Udovic is available for training on redistricting, ethics, and the Sunshine Law. He can answer questions about redistricting, and research legal issues, if necessary. He is not legally allowed to tell you where to draw district boundaries, but you may request that he interrupt and offer guidance if you start to do something that would not be allowed; such as, asking the county counsel to provide something for the commission. He can be granted great latitude to guide you on issues or criteria if you request that he do so. It would be better to ask him many questions rather than start the commission on a tangent that will take too much time. 9.Why should non-resident people not be included in the redistricting database? A:There are several groups of people that by county code should not be included in the redistricting numbers: non-resident military and their non-resident dependents, non-resident students, non-resident foreign nationals or aliens. The reason for the exclusion is that they are not permanent residents of the County of Hawai’i. The military personnel and their dependents are here under military orders. Their home state from which they enlisted is considered their permanent place of residence. They usually have no intention of permanently staying in Hawai’i. However, if they were to change their voter registration to the County of Hawai’i, then they become a resident here. However, the military may still consider them as residents of their home state. Non-resident students are either from another state or country. U.S. citizens from another state attending school here are still residents of their home state unless they change their voter registration. Students from other islands in Hawai’i are residents and do not pay out-of-state tuition. Non-resident foreign nationals or aliens have their permanent residency in another country. Remember that the census is based on every person that is here, but redistricting is based on permanent residents. Tourists are not considered permanent residents either. Most non-residents are self-declared on their census forms. If they don’t tell the truth on their census forms, there is no way for the commission to know that. Don’t worry about it. 10.If the State does not provide an extraction for non-resident students, how can we know in which census block each non-resident student lives? A: By a vote of the commission, you may ask your commission secretary to write to each college and university on the island and request a list of the number of non-resident students they had enrolled as of the date of the federal census was completed (e.g. April 1, 2010) with the following information: 1) the physical address of each non-resident student, 2) the mailing