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SHELDON MEIER (At this time Sheldon Meier came forward via videoconference from Waimea to address members of the Commission.) MR. MEIER: Good morning. I was listening to everybody, so I really don't have anything new to say except that with the census in 2010, and now I'm thinking of the children in 2020, when they look back; and our kids right now, there are a lot of kids in Waik6loa Village, where I live. A lot of kids are bussed up to Waimea, and the Hawaii Preparatory Academy; I've done a little work with them. So, I am just thinking of the future in 2020, I want them to know that most of us up here are in favor of Plan B, with a little modification to it. Thank you. CHR. SIRACUSA: Let's take one more in Waimea. MS. HANANO: Madam Chair, the next testifier here is Karen Clarkson. She is representing herself, supporting Plan B, opposing Plan A, and commenting. KAREN CLARKSON (At this time Karen Clarkson came forward via videoconference from Waimea to address members of the Commission.) MS. CLARKSON: Thank you, Commissioners, for your hard work and I'm here again to ask you not to consider Plan _A with its division of Hamakua. We are still in the process of working on our CDP, and we have put a lot of effort into that already and to take Honoka`a out of having a council member of that area represent that area, just is not fair. The Council ultimately is the one that upholds the CDP, and if our CDP doesn't reflect our council representation, it could be disastrous to the community. I know Plan _B has been revised and is still in the process of revision, and I believe there are a number of community groups that are working on this and I think that is a great opportunity for you to look at good input from people who are sitting down and really studying this matter and I hope you will really take those into consideration and consider their recommendations. Thank you very much. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you, and we have been listening and considering and taking into consideration all the testimony we have received around the island. Our next testifier in Hilo is Patrice MacDonald. PATRICE MACDONALD (At this Patrice Macdonald came forward to address members of the Commission.) MS. MACDONALD: I apologize for getting here late. We, in upper Puna are presently still in District 3 and District 6. From what we have seen, we would prefer Plan B, which does include all of Highway 11, and gives us some of our old Puna back. This is kind of a repeat of our last redistricting, which has a lot in common with our CDP. We spent millions of dollars on our CDP plan, and we were pretty much deleted. We prefer Plan B, I don't know which one is Rene Siracusa's because they don't come through with any 12