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MR. MELROSE: Shyla, can you pull into the Puna /Hilo interface? This does take the mauka /mauai Puna perspective. It looks like it splits the excess of the Puna vote and puts Kea` au in the District 2, and limits the amount of votes going into District 6, the Volcano area; although Volcano remains in District 6. So this is an interesting kind of a compromise one. It does have two votes for Puna, it splits the excess in Puna in two different ways. It makes a certain amount of sense. The interface between District 1 and District 3, is that at the river? What is the boundary there? CHR. SIRACUSA: Excuse me, Linda Ugalde has just arrived. MR. MELROSE: So this one crosses the river and picks up portions of Kaumana, Wailuku, Waianuenue, and up into the Pi ' ihonua area. So there is a little bit of push into the Hilo district. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: This is that same discussion we have had before about where you draw the line at Pi ' ihonua. MR. MELROSE: This is what happens when you push the Waimea district to the edge of Waimea and Waimea doesn't grow; because Hamakua needs to grow. So it grows all of that growth into the Hilo district. I don't think, ultimately, that is something I will support, but I think it is a reasonable option to put on the table for the conversation. The other side of that is this also splits Waikoloa. And when you move the line to the edge of Waimea, you end up having to split Waikoloa as well, which I frankly think is not a good decision. I think that is going to be problematic. I don't mind it being on the table. MR. CARVALHO: I have to disagree a little bit on this. You know, Waikoloa, and that area are really going to grow, so somewhere along the line between Waikoloa and Waimea, which are two pretty growing communities, somewhere along the line they are going to have to be split. I just wanted to comment on that. MR. KANUHA: I'm pretty sure this is the map that I drew. I just want to explain how I came up with the process of doing this. This is based on one of the maps that we were working on previously at the last Commission meeting. We didn't know where to add Lakeland, and we didn't know where to add Waimea. So that is the compromise that I had to make with adding Lakeland to District 9 and then splitting up Waikoloa in a boundary that was towards your specifications, which was sort of acceptable under what we were talking about. So that's the compromise I made there. But, in adding Lakeland in to District 9, with District I. you have to come down into Hilo. There is no other way that District 1 can get any people. That is the only way that I could make that happen. So that was the reasoning why I did what I did between District 9, 1, and 3. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: I think we should keep this map and continue to work with it. Use this, because I think this is getting more towards how we are going to end up solving these conundrums about what we are going to split and what we are going to put where. 20