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MR. MELROSE : This is an interesting concept one. I donÓt know as an alternative, what the people in Kohala and HonokaÓa think about being in that. MR. CARVALHO: I would imagine that HonokaÓa and Hawi people really do not get along. MS. POINDEXTER : Excuse me, IÓm from HonokaÓa, the Hmkua area and weÓve worked with the Hawi area. I remember at one time when we were connected and involved together; taking out of Waimea and hopping over to the Kohala Mountains. were both rural communities that had the demise of sugar. MR. CARVALHO : Okay, I stand corrected. : LetÓs look at Hilo. Where is the Wailuku River. CHR. SIRACUSA MR. MELROSE : It goes up to Kaumana. So everything north of Kaumana is going to be in the District 2 seat. It creates kind of a South Hilo seat that gets up as far as Pauillo. Actually I think it gets up as far as Paauhau. But it takes the bulk of that HonokaÓa vote out and it splits out Ahualoa into District 1 and, then Kalopa and Pauillo is in District 2. MS. POINDEXTER : I donÓt like this map. I was making a point about Kohala and HonokaÓa sharing some similarities, but I donÓt like how it splits up Hmkua with crossing over Waimea to be into Kohala. To me I donÓt like this map. CHR. SIRACUSA : LetÓs go down a little bit and see Puna, what happened there. Part of the problem here is if you go down a little bit there are some communities on the West side of the highway that they would have no road connectivity with other parts of what would be Council District 6 here without going out into Council District 5 and then back in again. MR. MELROSE: This map also splits Pahoa town; just as Ms. Wille didnÓt like the idea of going through the middle of Waimea Town on the highway, this does the same thing here. CHR. SIRACUSA: Can we get it a little closer to Pahoa? Yes, it does. Pahoa is split. MR. MELROSE: So if you were going to draw that line, you would draw it along the by-pass, if anything. This goes to the bigger question and IÓm interested in the Puna perspective on this. That is the north/south, east/west options; whether it makes more sense to try to cut east/west, or north/south. CHR. SIRACUSA: For people living in Puna makai, most of their activities go north to south and south to north. For example, the only gas station is in Pahoa. Everybody has to go north to get to the gas station; the same thing for the Post Office. All the actual movement of people and activities, and Pahoa has the only community center where all the events happen. It just doesnÓt really make sense to take half a community and push it into another district. Then there is the whole road connectivity issue, which is a problem. Like where I live; which is you follow Cemetery Road to the west side of Pahoa, North Kaohe Homestead Road. The only way to get 24