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time is up. I will be around if you need to talk about this. I wanted the community and the council to see this plan, thank you. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you Brenda. Are you aware that your map has some major connectivity issues in District 5? For example, Kalapana, Black Sands Subdivision and Kaohe Homesteads, cannot access other parts of their district because of where you put the District 4 boundary. MS. FORD: You know that district better than me; I said this plan needs to be tweaked; it needs to be tweaked. I still think it eliminates the worst problems of Plan_40 and Plan—A, but it still needs to be tweaked. I rely on all of you to do that. CHR. SIRACUSA: That is our job. MR. MELROSE: I have a question. Thank you, Brenda. I appreciate your work on this. You know, in the Bill that you crafted to design this process, you have a provision in the Bill that says that places that are growing faster need to be accommodated. The fastest growing districts, in your plan, are actually at the highest level of the variation. So, I think that that concept is a struggle for us; we have always struggled with that. I think we ought to suggest some amendments to your Bill when we get through actually exercising it; because this kind of stuff makes it very hard for us. MS. FORD: It's correct, I personally don't think the Bill needs to be changed; the Ordinance, now it is an Ordinance. You have an out, as you all know. And the out is that if you choose not to use one of the criteria, all you need to do is put it in your final plan and explain why you didn't use it. You have an out. But, I wanted the Commission to consider the high growth areas and try to get the lowest populations. Unfortunately, what we have heard from communities all around the island is, "Keep the communities of interest together." If that is going to become your top priority, there is no problem with that. Just justify it in your final plan, and you are good to go. Puna has made it very clear that they want two districts, which they certainly deserve, and they want to keep as much of Puna together as they possibly can. My caution, and I put it in my testimony, is don't go over the 10 %, don't go over the 4.99 %, because that will make your plan voidable on its face at the U. S. Supreme Court. You can do this. I know you can do this. I know where some tweaking needs to happen, and representatives from Puna and wherever, you know where it needs to be tweaked. The problem is you have got to get rid of the worst problems, and that is what this plan is trying to do; get rid of the worst problems. You can justify what you need to do in a court of law, if it's in your final plan. This is what we chose as a more important criteria than criteria x. I don't think the Ordinance needs to be changed, you just need to do your job in your final report, and you can do it. MR. MELROSE: One more question. Can you just explain where is Puako in your plan? MS. FORD: Puako, in my plan, is not with Kohala. I think it is a problem, and I think that needs to be tweaked. But at this point, I left it out just to get numbers. You need to do something with that. Thank you. 23