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another one. I think itÓs important that we get out there to these districts, have it. But Kona and Kohala was probably our biggest input, there. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: Was it 10 people, or 50 people? MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA : In Kohala there were in excess of 15 people, maybe 20. In Kona it was in the evening so there was, IÓd say, maybe 20 or 25 people MR. CARVALHO: I expected maybe 100 people. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA: Well, if we get 100 people, IÓm willing to accommodate them somewhere, but I havenÓt seen that. Maybe over the 10 years, things may have changed, so people may be a little bit more interested in doing that. I would suspect that when we get to Pahoa Neighborhood Center, we would have a lot of people there. But thatÓs just my spin on what has been happening. CHR. SIRACUSA : I suspect also, that in a lot of cases you have one person co an organization instead of everyone from that organization coming. So that might account for some of those lower numbers. It might not be because there is a lack of interest. I donÓt think there is a lack of interest this time. MR. KAHAWAIOLAÒA : I sure hope not. It wasnÓt a lack of interest that prevented them from doing it last time. ItÓs just things happen; people have meetings scheduled during the day, people work. The ones that maybe wanted to canÓt or are not able to. But, I think the technology has helped; how itÓs easier to pretend where your district is going to go. It will peak a lot of peopleÓs interest in what is going around this time; this is a ten year cycle. CHR. SIRACUSA: Anybody else? MR. KANUHA: I had something to bring up. About the Yano Hall meeting; on the front page it says 6:00 p.m. and on the back page it says 6:00 a.m. That definitely has to be fixed. CHR. SIRACUSA: Those of you who took the calendar from the front table, please make that correction on your copies. MR. MELROSE: I understand the difficulty of a morning meeting during the workday, so there is a vehicle for people to submit testimony to us. People can write in a testimony to us in conjunction with those public hearings. IÓm making that assumption. CHR. SIRACUSA: Jamae, will you come up please. MR. MELROSE: My question was that for each of these public hearings there is a vehicle for people to submit a written testimony if they canÓt get there in person. There is a vehicle for each of these testimonies; they can send it to the ElectionÓs Office or to the ClerkÓs Office and it will be delivered to us for each of these public hearings. 9