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MARGARET WILLE: Thank you. I want to start with just a question for the Committee and whether you all have already made a motion and voted to pay for the extractions and gotten that information to the Esri or some other entity, so that those numbers can be obtained. I donÓt understand why this hasnÓt been done by now. I havenÓt seen anything or noted in your minutes where there was a vote; maybe there has been, in order for that payment to be under the procurement minimum. If that hasnÓt been done, I certainly hope you do it today, and make sure all of those ÐiÓsÑ are dotted. I leave that to you, if there is any procedural issue that hasnÓt been taken care of, so that the extraction can be properly done. That is under (c) of page two that I submitted. In terms of evaluating the proposed districts, just the key things that I felt should be respected are identity of the village centers, which reinforces what Mr. Stoddard as well as previous testifiers have said. I explained what those centers would be in District 9. So I put three key things; to make sure you are preserving the village centers and not just going by some road down the center of a community such as say, Mamalahoa right through Waimea where KTA is on one side and Foodland is on the other; to respect the communities that are working together. Second, would be the contiguity of access roads; Hawi and Kapaau should not be over in Hmkua or some place that they have to drive through another district. Third, to try and respect the Community Development Plan (CDP) Community ÒOhana. For District 9, that would be trying to keep Waikloa, Waimea, Kawaihae and Puako together and along with North Ko of the plans put Hawi, or all of North Kohala and moved that over to Hmkua. Last, IÓll just say that I went through all of the seventeen plans, and I analyzed them based on those criteria. In terms of Kohala, or what is currently District 9, Plan 2 and Plan 7 are completely consistent with that criteria. Plan number 7, if you do the extraction, you probably would have to take out a few more. Then which plans agree with criteria one and two, and then I looked at the ones that were not consistent. Looking at them, please pay attention to those. CHR. SIRACUSA: We cannot answer your questions during this part of the meeting, but some of those issues that you raised are on the agenda further on, an what is happening. Are there any other testifiers? Next on the agenda is Approval of Minutes. APPROVAL OF MINUTES CHR. SIRACUSA: Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? Mr. Melrose moved to approve the minutes of the July 28, 2011 HawaiÒi County Redistricting Commission meeting. Seconded by Mr. Kanuha and carried by the following vote: Ayes: Commissioners Carvalho, KahawaiolaÒa, Kanuha, Melrose, Middlesworth, Poindexter, Ugalde, and Chair Siracusa. Noes: None. Absent: Commissioner Kahui. 3