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CHR. SIRACUSA: Nobody wants to agree that they own them. But the County has to <br />maintain Ka`ohe Road because it dead -ends at the Puna Forest Reserve at the Waokele `O <br />Puna and they need an access. And OHA needs an access. <br />MR. KAHAWAIOLA`A: That's where I was going. So those roads do not belong to the <br />County. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: No, but they are County maintained. <br />MR. KAHAWAIOLA`A: Just like Hawaiian Homes, but I just needed that clarification. <br />Thank you. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Okay, so we're moving around? <br />MR. MELROSE: You know, in this boundary, Linda, in Volcano, it looks like it picks up <br />`Ohi`a Estates on one side, aside from the fact that this is, you know, jettisoned to Ka`u or <br />to the southern district, it doesn't honor what you would call the Volcano community. <br />What would you call the Volcano community? What would you call Volcano; is that <br />Akatsuka kind of connectivity? Okay, so that's right about where the road turns, right <br />where the end of that little point is? <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: So that community is split. <br />MR. MELROSE: So if you were going to try and save this plan, if you were gonna try and <br />adjust this plan, assuming that we hadn't a plan in which Volcano went out, you would end <br />up, you would want that move to go at least to Akatsuka so you have enough votes there to <br />make a difference. I know this is hard for you. <br />MS. UGALDE: Anyway, number one, it splits Volcano community from Volcano <br />community, as they're coming up the road. I guess it's right at `Ohi`a Estates, leaving <br />Mauna Loa and `Ohi`a, that are adjacent to each other split, and then the greater Volcano <br />Village area and Golf Course are still in Ka`u. Splitting Volcano this way I think is even <br />worse than the map we're operating under now. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Okay. Any other comments? Do we want to continue moving around <br />the island? I know that the whole green strip hanging down along the coast that's all one <br />census district. That's one of the problems that we have to face with some of these weird <br />census districts that make us look like we're gerrymandering. But Shyla, could you move a <br />little over towards inland a little bit, a little more, a little more, a little more, a little more, I <br />just saw something; move into purple a little bit there. That narrow, that wasp waist, that <br />looks like a gerrymander and it takes away that whole compactness thing. If there's <br />nobody there then it should go into either green or yellow. What district is purple there? <br />MR. MELROSE: You said there were people there right Margaret? Right. And there is <br />numbers in the census tract but I called the Mauna Loa Observatory and they say they have <br />nobody living there. So there are no residents up there from their perspective. They spend <br />43 <br />