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population in the school system. We are heading towards 1,000 strong at Waikoloa Elementary. I understand that there is a lot of political pull and shove that you are hearing in various different testimonies that you have, but I am just here today to say that I beg you and urge you to please vote for Plan—B, recognizing the growth and the development that is occurring in Waikoloa. It is no longer that peaceful Caucasian retirement that everyone thought it was; we have an enormous amount of young families there that are dedicated and committed to watching the Big Island grow all together, and I think that it is necessary that our voices are heard. The only way this is going to happen is if Plan_B is enacted, and we have been placed with the Waimea community. Thank you. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. We come back to Hilo now, Pete Altomare, representing himself. PETE ALTOMARE (At this time Pete Altomare came forward to address members of the Commission.) MR. ALTOMARE: Good morning to the Commission. I appreciate your time and efforts over the last few months. I will be, as the Chair suggests, brief and succinct. Kea`au belongs in Puna. It is a key to Puna, it is a population center in Puna; it will be the center of development in Puna for many years to come. It belongs as a part of Puna, providing benefits for Puna. We had unfortunate incidents back in August of 2011 regarding the Puna Community Development Plan. I don't want to see that repeated; I want Puna residents and representation within Puna. If a choice has to be made between Volcano and Kea`au, I would very strongly support the inclusion of Kea`au within Puna. I think that it is absolutely essential for the integrity of Puna economically, geographically, politically. That is how I look at it. I still have a bitter taste in my mouth as I just said, about what happened in August of 2010, at a public meeting, about the Puna Community Development Plan. It was very interesting to see the participants in that meeting, and what came out of it, and I don't want to repeat that. I want to see Puna as an integral, clean district, with its interests cleanly and strongly represented by two people. That is about it, and hopefully I have left a lot out, but I only got three minutes, and I'll let it go at that. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. I can understand if the other commissioners don't understand what meeting you are alluding to, but I don't even know what meeting you are alluding to. Later; it's probably not pertinent. Let's go to Waimea. MS. HANANO: Thank you. My next testifier is Harlan Kroll, and he is representing himself, and he is speaking in support of Plan B, opposing Plan A, and commenting. HARLAN KROLL (At this time Harlan Kroll came forward via videoconference from Waimea to address members of the Commission.) MR. KROLL: Good morning, I will make my comments brief. I have two concerns with moving Waikoloa Village in with North Kona. I believe it should stay with the ninth district, or South Kohala, because our interests, especially with Waimea, are much more 10