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MS. UGALDE : You go Highway 11; it's just above Fern Forest. It's just after Hale Anela. Jade is Mauna Loa Estates, Leona is `Ohi`a Estates, Nahe Nani is `Ohi`a Estates. Go the other direction. It's by Ali`i Kane Street. MR. MELROSE: Can we move on to some other portions of this map? I'd like to see the interface between Council District 2 and 3 along the river. It seems very narrow. You see where Kamana City is; it is in District 1 and you would have to go through District 2 to get to it. So this is one of those road inconsistencies. It could be fixed, but at this point it violates the concern for connectivity. How about down in the Kea` au area? It splits Hawaiian Paradise Park, but it leaves them both in the Puna district. This does what one of the others had done, which is it takes some of the excess from Puna and Kea` au and connects it to a larger Hilo district. Aside from that connectivity issue, this is not a bad plan, for this side of the island anyway. How does it treat the Waimea /Waikoloa area? MR. KAHAWAIOLA`A: I would like to look at the connectivity with District 3 and 4; it maybe that District 4 has just got another name. Where I live would just be in another district now. I don't have a problem with changing numbers. I may be in District 2 or I may be in District 3, based on what it is here. I would like to look at the coast. CHR. SIRACUSA: So Panaewa is in District 3 now. Do you want to see where Keaukaha is? MR. KAHAWAIOLA`A: Can you get in closer to the breakwater? Kanoelehua Street. MR. MELROSE: That little blue piece up there next to Reed's Bay, if you touch that one, it lights up everything down the coast past the breakwater. It's an odd census block. MR. KAHAWAIOLA`A: Does it abut Puna, or into Puna on the coast if we keep going? MR. MELROSE: It goes into Puna, and it includes part of Kea` au. So it picks up what looks like the Shipman property currently, and the Kea` au Ag Lots. MR. KAHAWAIOLA`A: The concern that I would continue to maintain just as long as they keep making that part of Hilo contiguous with Puna, voting will be outnumbered. We will be outnumbered. Again, I raise this question of the Puna, mauka /mauai access road with the talk always being Railroad Avenue. Railroad Avenue, unlike any other avenue, is part of Hawaiian Homes, and we are going to have a problem when you try to access Railroad Avenue as the bypass road. With that being said, politically, if there were a vote to be taken, and we were then now part of Puna, we would lose. So I would be adamant about any part of the Homestead ending into the Puna district. The Puna boundary line should be there; historically, it's been District 3 that has been into Puna, Kea` au, which is almost the same demographics; `Ola` a, the people in Waiakea homesteads and house lots, and into Waiakea Uka. District 3, always has a part of Puna. District 4, never had any part of Puna. MR. MELROSE: Under any circumstances, as long as Puna gets a second vote, District 4 or 3, one will move into Puna. 23