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Review and Discuss Plan_7 <br /> <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: LetÓs look at Plan_7. <br /> <br />MR. MELROSE <br />: I see a couple of things on Plan number 7. ItÓs one of the first weÓve seen that <br />shows an upper and lower Puna. It also seems to accommodate thi <br />2,100 in Hilo related to the University. Those two districts being a little high; the Puna districts <br />being low, the Kona districts being low; so just from a population adjustment perspective, it is <br />more attentive to that than others have been. <br /> <br />CHR. SIRACUSA <br />: However, I believe, if you zoom in there, Hawaiian Paradise Park is divided, <br />pretty much down the middle. <br /> <br />MR. MELROSE: To challenge that for a second; yes, itÓs split, but there are 20,183 votes in that <br />area. What area donÓt you want in it; that would make that closer? <br /> <br />CHR. SIRACUSA <br />: But, there are some maps that manage to keep Hawaiian Paradise Park <br />intact. <br /> <br />MR. MELROSE <br />: Right, but then they also go along the highway. <br /> <br />MS. POINDEXTER <br />: Can we zoom in to Waimea/Hmkua? <br /> <br />MR. MELROSE: It splits PuÒunani; thatÓs a tough one. That district, if you click on the next <br />census tract, it goes all around the little pinnacle to the right, if you try to get the rest of <br />Puunani. You end up getting everything else around the other side, and split that one in half. <br />ItÓs nuts. Actually Elections Office submitted, as Pat said, th <br />to the Census Bureau on how to fix them, and they didnÓt change any of them. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Is Waimea split? <br /> <br />MR. CARVALHO: Yes, Waimea is split. <br />Ms. Poindexter moved to eliminate Plan_7. <br />Seconded by Mr. Carvalho and carried <br />by the following vote: <br />Ayes: Commissioners Carvalho, KahawaiolaÒa, <br /> Kanuha, Melrose, Middlesworth, <br /> Poindexter, Ugalde, and Chair Siracusa. <br />Noes: None. <br />Absent: Commissioner Kahui. <br /> <br />27 <br /> <br />