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MS. NAKAMOTO: I donÓt know; that is an assumption you are making. CHR. SIRACUSA: I donÓt know that for sure either. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: My reading from the last time around; and Patrick is nodding his head. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA: That was a hypothetical reading, because we couldnÓt again place it. Students may be living in Puna and coming to school here. Students may be living someplace else. It wasnÓt necessarily in Hilo. Because the University was here, the assumption was just that, that everybody lived in the student housing, but we didnÓt have---Student housing couldnÓt accommodate all the students that were there, so they were all over East HawaiÒi. CHR. SIRACUSA: Well, thatÓs right, because the dormitory only holds so much, and where you are going to get your cheapest housing is in Puna, if you are a student. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA: That is where many of them were living. MS. NAKAMOTO: And there are many out of Hilo town; students that come and live in the dorms also. So itÓs not only non-resident students living in the dorms at the University. CHR. SIRACUSA: So letÓs get back to what we were discussing, which is our ne LetÓs get to our focus again and find out, ultimately, do you guys want to stick with our schedule for the time being, or do you want to move one week the way it was suggested. nd MR. MELROSE: My recommendation is that we move one week, to June 2. That gives us a little bit of time; one, to see whether or not data comes in and we have got a better feel for the training cycle, and two, give us a little bit more time to come up with an introductory training that would get us off the ground. So, if IÓm going to be responsible for doing that, IÓm going to get nervous about doing it in a two week period of time. I want to deliver a useful conversation, nd so letÓs do that; and on June 2 we will know more. Time works in our favor in this regard. nd MR. KAHUI: René, this is Kona. The consensus here is that we support June 2, allowing us enough time to receive information so we can have a fruitful meeting. Mr. Kahui moved to change the next meeting of the 2011 Redistricting Commission from May 26, 2011 to June 2, 2011. Seconded by Mr. Middlesworth. CHR. SIRACUSA: Do we have more discussion? nd MR. MIDDLESWORTH: Yes. If we meet on June 2, and Jeff could arrange the GIS orientation for a date, say, a week later, or even several days later. Does the orientation have to qualify as a regular meeting of the Commission, or can it qualify as something else legally? 40