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we need and use to fill man power. What happened in those districts; who handles those districts?
<br />OK, so we're in Lakeland, we're in Waikoloa, we're down on Waikoloa Beach Drive, but the
<br />Lakeland from White Road on, on paper is not our district. So when we go out for man power,
<br />what statistics do we use? So Waimea, let's keep Waimea. I like the plan. I know you guys all
<br />worked hard, you are, I believe, our representatives so listen to what we have to say, and take that
<br />into account. Thank you.
<br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. Our next speaker is Larry Bryan.
<br />LARRY BRYAN
<br />(At this time Larry Bryan came forward to address members of the Commission.)
<br />MR. BRYAN: Good afternoon, thank you for all of your efforts and all of your work. I'm sure
<br />that in the process of working through this issue, that you have done, and will do, a great job. It
<br />seems to be a very rational process, and we appreciate that. I just have a couple of things I'd like
<br />to say. I'm from Waikoloa, and I've lived many places around the world, and it seems to me that
<br />when communities are kept together it's a good thing, it's a better thing. So, whatever
<br />redistricting you come up with, I would recommend that one of the supporting principles be that
<br />logical, historical communities be kept together as much as possible, it works best. I would also
<br />like to suggest that you think about, you know, our government, a little bit. Over the last couple
<br />of hundred years, you know, our government has sort of grown, it's very complex, it has become
<br />very complex. We need to simplify it. If we're going be competitive in the world, we cannot
<br />have 18 layers of government overlapping each other with complicity, and making it so complex.
<br />So I ask that you step back and you know as an example, I understand that there are these
<br />community development districts so there's a lot of thought that's gone into those and what do
<br />they do and how should you relate to those districts? You know if I'm in District A for
<br />community development, District B for voting, and District C for this, pretty soon it gets too
<br />complicated. So as I was mentioning to one of the young ladies in the back, I said maybe we
<br />should just follow McDonald's. You know they do their demographics really well, and now and
<br />then you can have Big Mac. So, on a light note, thank you very much, and I appreciate you
<br />listening to my comments.
<br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you, and thanks for the note of levity. Okay, our fifth testifier is
<br />Robert Green.
<br />ROBERT GREEN
<br />(At this time Robert Green came forward to address members of the Commission.)
<br />MR. GREEN: Hi, my name is Robert Green, and I was born in Hilo, I was raised in Puna, and
<br />now I live in Waikoloa; so I kinda cover both ends of the islands. As I lived here, Hawaii has
<br />been, is not a piece of pie, or pizza pie, where we divide into nine equal portions and each portion
<br />has 2,100 and whatever it is. Hawaii is basically made of, of six individually different homo-
<br />genius areas. We have six of them; we've had them for five hundred years, and I think this is
<br />really what we need to do is look back and step back and look at our homogeneous areas that we
<br />have in these districts. As a second point, I am looking at the 4.99% variance rate. I think that we
<br />should make maximum use of that variance, not minimal. In other words, Waikoloa is right at the
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