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STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Pahoa, do you have any testifiers over there? <br />MS. LIVELY: Hi, good evening, and thank you. Yes, we do have three testifiers this <br />evening. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Waimea? <br />MR. HIRT: Good evening, we have three testifiers tonight. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Hilo? <br />MS. AVENUE: Good evening, madam Chair, we don't have any testifiers in Hilo. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Okay, I guess they are all saving it up for tomorrow night. I have five <br />testifiers here right now. Let's start with number one, Brenda Ford, representing herself. <br />BRENDA FORD <br />(At this time Brenda Ford came forward to address members of the Commission.) <br />MS. FORD: Can we get one of the big maps up on the screen? <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Shyla, can we get the map on the screen? <br />MR. KANUHA: She is saying no, we cannot. <br />MS. FORD: Okay, we'll survive. Good evening, I'm Brenda Ford, I am testifying for <br />myself Thank you for holding this meeting. I know it is required by law, but I appreciate <br />the fact that you are holding it anyway. I wanted to let you know that I have looked at the <br />map online. You do already know, I'm sure, that you have some islands floating around <br />that are not in the right district. I could see one in District 7, I can see one in District 8, and <br />there a couple more floating around, especially on the boundaries towards the center of the <br />island; some of those little islands are not even populated. They need to be addressed, and <br />I'm sure that you will. So I'm not going to talk about those any longer. <br />The biggest issue that I have is with the boundary between District 9 and 8; that little finger <br />projecting down. The reason it is a problem is because historically, Pohakuloa Training <br />Center, which has almost no population that is permanent, is part of District 8, but you will <br />see that the little finger projection actually makes you drive from District 8 up to the V in <br />the pink area and then back down Saddle Road to Pohakuloa. So you are crossing from <br />District 8 into 9 and back into 8; which you know is a violation. However, there is hardly <br />anybody up there, and this is easily corrected. What you need to do is everything on what I <br />will call the East side of Saddle Road, above Saddle Road - - -If you cannot reach anything <br />up in that area on the very eastern side of District 8 without going up Saddle Road, it needs <br />3 <br />