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CHR. SIRACUSA: Well, I'm wondering how you would fix that. For example, this little piece of yellow that comes up here. Does anybody live in that area, or is that an unpopulated area. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: Nobody lives there, that is Pohakuloa. CHR. SIRACUSA: Maybe for the sake of compactness, we ought to assign that to South Kona. MR. KANUHA: That is South Kona, but it wouldn't make a difference because there is no population. MR. MELROSE: Bo, do you have any take on the combination on that land between Palani Road and Waikoloa? You know the Kalaoa area up to Waikoloa. Does that seem logical or illogical to you. MR. KAHUI: I think it is workable. I just caution how far up above Waikoloa do we go. I think the concerns raised at the meeting in Kona by a fairly large constituency of people who came out and wanted to keep the Waikoloa community together with District 9. With that said, I think we could go as far up to Waikoloa and then when looking at that southern portion of Waikoloa Road that includes a number of units and families that I would be inclined to move that into District 9. How that affects District 9, I think might be problematic in that it now needs to look to reduce its numbers somewhere else. But I'm just kind of hearing what the community wanted. Secondly when you look along the coastline going past Waikoloa and Puako; once again I think that community came out at the Kona meeting and expressed wanting to stay in District 9. And with all possibility, I would like to see that happen. Once again, it's going to affect Joe's district. With respect to the southern boundary of District 8, I think Dru and I, once again, we can play with that boundary in as much as we want to share those growths to get to the right deviations. But I think keeping our communities contiguous is good, so I think if we kept below Palani Road which connects up to the Hawaii Belt Road and maybe keep QLCC with District 7, that might help the numbers for District 7 and would also keep contiguous all our urban area and the Kealakehe Homesteads as well as the Hawaiian Homesteads intact. MS. POINDEXTER: If I remember too, at that public hearing in Waimea, some of the Waikoloa people voiced that if we had to make a decision to take Waikoloa out, take them out as a whole and not split them. So if the worst case scenario, if they would go into Kona as a whole. CHR. SIRACUSA: I remember that also. And we heard that in other situations around the island too. When people were asked what their preference would be if they had to choose between splitting up or being in one district or the other, and inevitably they said they would want to move as a unit. Anybody else have anything to say here? MR. MELROSE: I would just add that Waiki`i is a logical connect to Waimea; that makes sense and that's what this one does. It also keeps the Puako /Kawaihae link together, which I think is 24