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to be mauka and makai of Highway 11. The first plan, Plan 40, has all of our villages in common, which is Kea`au, Kurtistown, Mountain View and Glenwood, divided with Hilo. So, we would favor the one that includes our villages with our community, which is District 6. Thank you. CHR. SIRACUSA: By the way, when you go to the software, there is a little thing that looks almost like a thermometer on the far left; that is where you zoom in to see the details. But, if you stay around for when we start working on the maps, you will see that on the big screen. So I do urge you to come back after lunch and see that. Now, Bill Beach. BILL BEACH (At this time Bill Beach came forward to address members of the Commission.) MR. BEACH: Aloha, I'm really glad that we committed to coming here today, rain or shine; we were going to do it. I have to be honest with you I haven't really studied the depth of what you need to do. When I walked in the room I saw some familiar faces. It is almost as going to court; I saw a lot of people I know. Anyways, looking at the people sitting up there, I know some of them, and I know they have a lot of brain power and a lot of integrity. I guess, after listening to all the great testimony and all the people from Waikoloa and Puna, doing a great job of representing what they need, the thing that I hear is that these lines that you have to draw, based on whatever criteria you are forced to use, could be destructive to communities. And I think the pleas that I'm hearing today, and really it kind of coalesced, that's really why I am here. I always speak out no matter what, and Jeff knows this from a long time ago. I told him, and Bob Lindsey, even though I love Kamehameha Schools, you can't do anything that destroys communities. You have to honor Hamakua, so, that is why we came, in honor of Hamakua and to not let it be gutted. And I'm so glad that we are all civilized and we can all do this with aloha, because in another time, it would have been an act of war and either outcome would have been destructive. So I don't think it is going to happen to Hamakua, I don't know how you are going to do what you need to do for it to be pono, but I trust that you will do it. I plead to you, because I think the reason I am here and not on Oahu, or anywhere else, is because of that great sense of community. Thank you. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you very much. Richard Bidleman, front and center. RICHARD BIDLEMAN (At this time Richard Bidleman came forward to address members of the Commission.) MR. BIDLEMAN: As most of you Commissioners know, I have attended a lot of the meetings and it's interesting to see a lot of other people coming out of the woodwork here today. I trust that you know that a group of us in Puna have worked very hard at drawing up maps; drawing them up multiple times, and getting advice from the members of this committee, as to how we might coalesce something. I think that has been a great relationship. I honestly believe you are doing the best job that you can, and it's not an easy one. I notice that there is the Waikoloa, Waimea contingency here today advocating one thing, without a great deal of thought to what is happening to some of the other districts. 32