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want to say something particular about Waik6loa, and why I think you see so many people from Waik6loa. Many of us sort of identify with our towns and I see Waik6loa is South Kohala. Their voice, and the meetings they go to, and how they represent themselves, is the voice, is the heart of South Kohala, Waik6loa and Puak6 together. I think that is why this is so important to them. On the CDP - -I was on that CDP Steering Committee- - Lakeland was right there, I never thought of Lakeland as elsewhere, and I think Lakeland and Volcano straddle two districts. Lakeland, if you see the sign, Hamakua is right after the turn into Lakeland. It is also where the upper Hamakua Ditch is. There are some reasons why that area whet with Hamakua. Volcano, putting it in Puna, is maybe socially good, but it also goes into Ka`u. Let me say, Map 40, if you can divorce yourselves from having all of the districts on each of these communities have everyone together and are willing to shave as Waimea is right now, I have put together what I see as an alternative and I will submit it and you can look at it for the next meeting, that basically cuts a little off of each of these communities such that the bulk of Volcano is where it wants to be, the bulk of Waik6loa is where it wants to be, the bulk of Puak6, the bulk of Waimea. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. MS. POINDEXTER: Madam Chair, I would just like to say one thing. I just wanted the public to know also, that when the Map 40 was designed, it was with the help of the Commissioners, when we were at the Kona meeting. We were deciding what maps to keep and work on, so what we did was we did a little tweaking on that so that we could save that as Map 40. If I'm not correct say so. So, know that the Commissioners have been working with the spirit of working together. So I'm hoping that we still have that spirit of aloha when we work together and we don't go out in public to make the public perceive, or name calling, or the personal attacks, because we truly here as Commissioners, are working as a team. We all have our individual opinions, but we truly come together and we are really working together for the betterment of our communities and the entire whole of our island. We love our island. We are not giving up our time because we want to do something political; it's because we love our people. I just want you guys to know that our heart is in it and we truly care about the people. I understand that some people are not going to be happy, and we don't have control of that; but just to let you know that we are willing to work with everybody. MS. WILLE: We could call it Commission Plan_B at this point. MS. POINDEXTER: That is another thing that may come up. But I just want to ask that we all work together in the spirit of aloha, and we put away the name calling and that whole personal attack kind of stuff, because then you bring in other pilikia and it's not good. So if we want to say we want to be pono, we all need to work together with the spirit of aloha. So, thank you. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. Let the record show that Patrick Kahawaiola`a has joined us. 26