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MR. KANUHA: Sorry, but it's just a little loud in this public arena. <br />MR. MELROSE: I have two comments. One is that I'm concerned that part of the question <br />about where the boundaries are is fuddled by the location of the district nomenclature. Karen was <br />going to ask Royce if it is possible to move those in the display so they are off to the edge. Right <br />now they lay right over the top of the boundaries and you can't see what is happening in Hilo or <br />Kona because of where they lie. <br />MS. EOFF: Shyla is working on taking those tags off and just putting a district number, since <br />the population is reflected in the chart anyways. We can do that. <br />MR. MELROSE: That helps some of the question about locating the boundary. Now the <br />details of it, a public hearing is a public hearing, and I get what Mr. Udovic is saying. I think <br />that this is an opportunity for us to engage a little bit; and maybe not in the public hearing <br />setting. It might be that there is a screen out there and we can, for people who want to look at <br />one more closely, do it outside of the public hearing. So once the public hearing has started, <br />we are kind of in the public hearing mode; we are not in this back and forth. But, we can, <br />both before and after of the conversation, be interactive with it to show people. We are not <br />defending any of these maps, we are not arguing any of the points, we are just showing you <br />what the maps are. So my suggestion is that we carry, as Mike suggested, bring them <br />downloaded in a computer, put them on a projector, and when we are in public hearing we are <br />in public hearing; but we absolutely want to be responsive with the information, as Val says. <br />MR. UDOVIC: If the maps are downloaded, as Mr. Middlesworth has indicated, it will show <br />when you need to show. <br />MS. POINDEXTER: I just want to make sure that we allow the public to be able to express <br />their opinions and also, if they have a question where the boundaries are, if it's done before or <br />after doesn't matter; just so they are satisfied. A lot of them cannot make these hearings in <br />Kona and Hilo, for some reason; whether they have a disability or whatever. But we are <br />coming to their community now, so it is their opportunity. <br />MR. MELROSE: Will we have the staff from Elections at the hearings? Shyla, do you want <br />to be there on a regular basis? I'm hoping not to commit you to that because it's a lot of <br />meetings, but it just strikes me that if there is a staff person at a screen, it would be really <br />useful for people who do have questions to be able to say, "Will you pull up District 9 and let <br />me look at the boundary?" And then she would do that and we could fulfill our educational <br />agenda as well as fulfill our public hearing process; we could do everything together. <br />MS. EOFF: We can talk to Pat about if Shyla could be present. That would be really good, <br />and if Shyla cannot, I can probably learn to zoom into the proper boundaries as well. I know <br />I'm going to have backup from Maile and one other technical person from the Clerk's staff. <br />So we will have plenty of people who could help people. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: One other logistical point; I like this idea of Jeff's; I think it is really <br />good. On the days we have two meetings in one day, we can do that before the first meeting <br />7 <br />