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MR. MELROSE : What does it look like in Hilo? One of the tricks with that one is that the Waimea people who are now in District 9, are now in District 8. So there link is now to the Kona base. MS. POINDEXTER: But I think that is the PuÓuanahulu, WaikiÓi area. MR. MELROSE : No, but everybody on the South side of the Highway going through Waimea is now connected to Kona, not to Waikloa, Kawaihae. CHR. SIRACUSA: This seems to have the Wailuku River as a boundary. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA : No, it doesnÓt. MR. MELROSE: Right, it doesnÓt. It splits downtown at Waianuinui. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA : This is downtown, then it comes across; the top comes across to Puainako. MR. MELROSE : So this is where the boundary would fall if you were just to draw the line at the edge of Waimea town; which is what that does, right? If you start at the edge of Waimea on the East side of Waimea, at Lakeland, just outside, then it pushes across the river and all the way over to Chong Street and Kaumana to make up the difference in votes. If you push it all one way, you end up getting all the way to, past Kaumana, up Kaumana. Now, in the Hilo side, this becomes, in addition, a Hilo vote, not just Hmkua vote. ThatÓs the outcome. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA: Then here again, District 4 is in Puna. CHR. SIRACUSA: Paradise Park is not split, however. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: Green is District 3. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA: But now, you split Hawaiian Homes; now you take the contiguou Hawaiian Homes and itÓs coastline, by keeping one part of it, but you take away the farms; the agricultural part. MR. MELROSE: And you blend the Hilo/Puna vote. You keep KeaÒau connected to Hilo. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA: I donÓt have a problem with that, what is here is still here in District 3; but I loose part of---And IÓm talking about, Ðcontiguous.Ñ The 2,000 acres starts here at the Harbor and it comes around to the Puna coast. That is Hawaiian Homes. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: You could probably put all of that into District 3 and not affect it. 27