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The motion to close file on COMM. 24 regarding historical Council District maps was carried by the following vote: Ayes: Commissioners Carvalho, Kahawaiolaa, Kahui, Kanuha, Melrose, Middlesworth, Poindexter, Ugalde, and Chair Siracusa. Noes: None. Absent: None. COMM. 25: REQUEST FROM KAWAIHAE LOCAL RESOURCE COUNCIL Memo from Commission Secretary Karen Eoff, dated July 18, 2011, transmitting invitation from Kawaihae Local Resource Council to have a member of the HawaiÒi County Redistricting Commission speak at their monthly meeting on August 7, 2011. CHR. SIRACUSA : Do I have a motion to close file? Mr. Middlesworth moved to close file on COMM. 25. Seconded by Ms. Ugalde. CHR. SIRACUSA : I want to say that this is our second request to have somebody attend a meeting. I understand that Mr. Udovic has already attended three meetings and so it not only behooves us to look at this request, but I think we might want to discuss process so that other community groups that may want to have a meeting and may want to invite commissioners should know how to go about doing it. Bearing in mind, they cannot have more than two commissioners at a time attending because of the Sunshine Law. Which would you like to discuss first, the process or this particular request? MR. MELROSE: Let me just add a couple of thoughts here. One is, I attended this particular meeting, the Kawaihae Resource Council meeting. Their last meeting was the end of July. I did it as a private consultant on another topic entirely. Somehow the issue came up about Redistricting and Marni Herkes and others were there and they immediately turned around and asked me to comment on the topic. All I really said was, ÐStay tuned, there will be public hearings in your community. Those things are going to happen.Ñ I think us attending individual meetings, when we really donÓt have anything to talk about except the process that we are going through; we just have to be really careful about doing that. We will be out into these communities actively, so my tendency would be to say rather than to try to respond to lots of these little examples---WeÓve got a lot of these meetings to do; we have eleven of them. Mike can you just brief us a little. You went to some of the meetings that Brittany was doing. MR. UDOVIC: Brittany had what they called ÐTalk StoryÑ meetings and I was at all three of them. The last one, I got home after 9:00 p.m. last night. Dru was with me. He came to the one at Yano Hall. They were just basically telling them the process of what Redistricting is; that the Commissioners will look at the total population base, excluding the students and military and they will make the districts as even as they possibly can taking into consideration the cultural 19