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CHR. SIRACUSA: I think we had already decided that we had to do the student extractions. The question is there are three different ways these extractions can be done. MR. CARVALHO: I would be in favor of if you are going to remove one section, you should remove them all. I would go with C. CHR. SIRACUSA: Okay. Dru, what is your manao? MR. KANUHA: I'm fine with C. I would like to hear what the other Commissioners have to say first, though. CHR. SIRACUSA: Mike. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: C is fine with me. It doesn't make any difference. I don't think it is going to matter in the end anyways, so whatever you want to do. MR. KAHAWAIOLA`A: C includes everyone that needs to be extracted, so that's they way I think we should go. That's the numbers they came up with; we just can't wait around for any more numbers. I would have to assume that's the numbers we gotta use. CHR. SIRACUSA: You are absolutely right. We cannot wait around for any more numbers. MS. UGALDE: I agree with C, removing all the non - residents. MS. POINDEXTER: I actually like Pat's idea about leaving every one in. The whole reason behind that is this is just another wrinkle in Hawaii County voter redistricting. Patrick stated before that you have people who are incarcerated that are counted in, but are non - voters, then you have the alien population who are counted in and are non - voters; and the common denominator even with the military, the students who are here, the aliens, and people who are incarcerated is that they all access the services within their district. So why would they go back to the mainland to vote for somebody who is not providing them the services they are receiving? So, my thing is that I would love to just leave them counted all in and just be equal with that. But, if I had to choose, I would agree with C, but I needed to give that opinion because I'm looking at what is fair and what is equal. CHR. SIRACUSA: So let me get this straight. You are going for scenario C? MS. POINDEXTER: If I had to choose, yes. CHR. SIRACUSA: Jeff, what is your take on this? MR. MELROSE: I think the numbers change a little bit in every district. When we accept C, what we are saying is that each district will have 100 less people in it than we had been planning for. In other words, instead of 20,560, we are going to be having 20,460. Those are the numbers we will use in that circumstance. The difference between A. B and C at that level is de minimus to me. Although I would agree that the rule about excluding non - residents is a question; the fact