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MS. UGALDE: Madam Chair, ditto. Same comment as last one. Volcano is st and South rather than in Puna, where it belongs. CHR. SIRACUSA: Are there any other comments? MR. MELROSE : I think we have to be careful of narrowing down our interests to specific go or no goes on very narrow issues. I mean, I appreciate your point, Linda, but in fact, it is a very difficult numerical issue to accomplish that, and not do other things as well. So I would say, this one, for other reasons. There is one Puna district, and then the other one is basically a combination Hilo/Waikea district, which I donÓt think we want to do. But if Joe said, no Waimea, and you said no Volcano, we would be stuck in the middle and weÓd be doing this for a long time. We could all pick out our lines in the sand, but IÓm not sure that every time it gets crossed is the reason to reject it. CHR. SIRACUSA : Absolutely; there are quite a few maps that do have Volcano in an upper Puna district, and two Puna districts. So itÓs not like it canÓt be done. MR. MELROSE : I would add, too, that I think one of our goals here is not to choose the right map. We are in the alternative generation phase of this process, so what we are looking to do is present a series of alternatives that the public can comment on that may have---We are not trying to pick the ÐrightÑ one, weÓre trying to come up with some alternatives we can take out. I would concur with---I have similar concerns with Plan_2. My concerns have to do with the treatment of the Puna district, primarily. That would be my concern with this one. CHR. SIRACUSA : Any one else? MR. KANUHA: Can you zoom into the Kona area? WeÓll go to Districts 7 and 8 by the ocean; by Kailua. Can you zoom in a little bit more? I donÓt have a problem with this; we can move on with further conversation. ItÓs not something I am totally going to deny. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: I would like to hear your comments about the Kona side. I would like to go a little bit further with what Jeff said. I have spent maybe 30 or 35 hours at my computer drawing maps; taking these maps, trying to modify them, trying to draw different maps. We are never going to satisfy everybody. The numbers simply do not work to make some of the things that people want happen. I think what we need to do---And we, eventually, have to agree upon a map and say this is the map that we are putting out there to be the map. What we need to do now is what we are doing; discuss the things that we think are important in this process. ItÓs important that Linda thinks that Volcano should be in Puna. I think itÓs important for us, on this side of the island, particularly, to hear what you have to say about how the Kona side splits. You are looking at these boundaries; they are essentially the same kind of boundaries we talked about the last time; Keauhou being the north boundary of one district, for example. Like I said, I would like to hear your feelings about this. MR. KANUHA: Issues I had were the same that IÓve always had with splitting up communities of interest. Yes, there are a lot of communities of interest in Kona that consider themselves Kona. 18