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MS. WEATHERFORD: Good evening everyone. Thank you very, very much for your <br />work. I appreciate that you took so many puzzle pieces and put them together in a mostly <br />comprehendible and useful way; and there are lots of pieces to your puzzle. I also became <br />aware that Pahoa is being divided along the main street, and I am wondering if now makai <br />of the Bypass, it will be zoned differently from the dense residential area in Pahoa and that <br />would be one reason to keep all of Pahoa together. It shouldn't be a problem finding <br />polling places for the new 5th district makai of there. There is a Fire Station and a school. <br />There are lots of opportunities for good polling places. The main thing for me is because I <br />asked and asked and asked about keeping Hawaiian Paradise Park a community together, it <br />would really be inconsistent for me to not want you to keep Pahoa together if you can; <br />because that is a community of mutual interests; shared interests. I think they deserve to be <br />together. Thank you so much. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. <br />MR. MELROSE: Elizabeth, in Pahoa Town, is there a Main Street program that works <br />with the core of town; or a business association, or what. There is actually an organization <br />in Pahoa that works on the old portion of Pahoa town; is that right? <br />MS. WEATHERFORD: Main Street Pahoa. <br />MR. MELROSE: Is there still a Main Street organization in Pahoa? <br />MS. WEATHERFORD: Yes. <br />MR. MELROSE: So that body represents businesses that kind of tie together the overall <br />interests of Pahoa Town? <br />MS. WEATHERFORD: Yes, indeed. <br />MR. MELROSE: I was just looking to see if there was some type of organizational unity <br />that was already there. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Actually there are several organizations, with different agendas. <br />Okay, let's see, we have Richard Bidleman here in Hilo. <br />RICHARD BIDLEMAN <br />(At this time Richard Bidleman came forward to address members of the Commission.) <br />MR. BIDLEMAN: Good evening. Well, the end is near here, isn't it? And we've all <br />worked real hard; including the public, with this process. And what I want to point out to <br />you, as a person who has been working in the computer industry for pretty close to 50 <br />years; what we have here is a level playing field. And the thing that leveled the playing <br />field is the internet. It has been often said in recent years that the internet is leveling the <br />playing field in many areas in our society. And this effort is exemplary in that manner. <br />The other thing, and I know Pete mentioned it; this has been a real arduous process. What I <br />0 <br />