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community in Waikoloa, or Waimea, may have. So, I would like to ask you to please reconsider some of these plans that you have. You may end up with something different, something like someone said where more communities will be together and not split. Thank you. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. Our next testifier is Mike Price. MIKE PRICE (At this time Mike Price came forward to address members of the Commission.) MR. PRICE: I'm Mike Price, I'm from Waikoloa; I want to thank you for being on this commission, because no matter what you do, you're going to end up (inaudible) somebody's (inaudible) and that's a tough job. I wanted to emphasize what you already heard in a lot of cases. Kohala is an historic district and the set up is an ahupua` a, and that included the ocean all the way. Many still live that way. We went through a three year process with the community development program developing a shared vision for the area. I hate to see all that lost by splitting communities and drawing lines and dibbing things up. Some of the people who have contributed some of the best ideas would get left out, and in the district they're going into, their plan that we covered won't deal with some of the issues that are important to them. Puako is a good example, Waikoloa is another one. I disagree with splitting any community. I'm involved with the South Kohala traffic safety committee, and over the years it's always been a problem with part of Waimea being in another district and expecting representation from that district on pertinent issues in Waimea. So holding communities together is utmost important. I think you have a historic district, and there is an issue of sustainability and connectivity. All the roads in the district either coming from Hawi down the mountain road tying in, or when you look at the Kawaihae road, you have got to be very careful about splitting jurisdiction over that, otherwise we will not get any improvements. The Kawaihae bypass has been in the works since 1968. You split the jurisdiction and I think you already heard that going to two different councilman to get support for even a State project, if it shows even an inkling of non - consensus in the area, someplace else in the State will be funded. That's my concern. But when look at the roads in Kohala, I don't think that you can start moving people and population into districts that they don't even have a connecting road to the area. I think that's really under representing those folks. How will they get improvements to their infrastructure? That's a big concern of mine. When I looked at all of the maps, I also thought about the fact that we've entered in a period of recession, and depending on who you read and in what newspaper, we may now not recover until 2013 at the earliest or 2018 at the latest. That means that where we're at right now, growth wise, in South Kohala it's stopped. Why not leave this district, or some other district, in other words; leave district alone. The water is coming from either the reservoirs of Kohala Mountains or else Mauna Kea and is distributed downhill. The same with the roads and what is actually printed out in the CDP, so please considerate it. Thank you. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you very much. Our next testifier is Victor Morris. VICTOR MORRIS (At this time Victor Morris came forward to address members of the Commission.) 7