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Review and Discuss Commission Draft Plan B CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. So we have that on the map right in front of us at the moment. Commissioner Middlesworth is up there with Shyla. I just want to explain something to the other Commissioners. In my map, RS3, I had done a configuration for Puna that was a mauka /makai based configuration. One of the homework assignments for the Commissioners was for me to try to put that, translate that configuration into Draft Plan _B. And when I tried to do it, census block by census block, I came up with a 1,000 resident difference; which should not happen. So, I put a call through to Royce this morning, at ESRI and asked him if that is possible that could happen, and he said it is if the extractions were not migrated to the base map on which Plan _B or Plan _A was. So we looked at that, and that was not the case. The extractions were done on both of those base plan maps; so that is not the problem. So I asked Shyla if she could see if she could play with that and get the same configuration into a mauka /makai configuration into Plan _B. There are some major problems with the way the census blocks are laid out here. Do we need to give you some time here, Shyla? We did see my plan RS3, and it wasn't good for the rest of the island. I had asked the Commissioners if they would be willing to tweak their respective boundaries, but nobody wanted to go there. But that configuration was the one that worked best for Puna; for the two Puna districts. So my homework assignment was to try and see if I could translate that configuration, not the one that is here, but the mauka /makai configuration, on to Draft Plan _B. And I couldn't get the numbers to work, unfortunately. So I asked Shyla to see if she could get it to work, because she is better at this than I am. It would start at Kalapana, down at the very bottom, Shyla; and put that into District 4. MR. MELROSE: I bet you that the problem you came into was that you ended up cutting HPP. Can you get there without cutting one of those big subdivisions? CHR. SIRACUSA: What happened was on one of the maps, the Maku`u Hawaiian Homes, which spans both sides of the Highway, if it goes into District 5, then you can't get from other parts of District 4 to HPP without driving through Maku`u Hawaiian Homelands, which is District 5. There is no other way in. Can we see your numbers now? We are way over. That is the same problem I was having when I tried to do that. MR. MELROSE: So, then you need to transfer back HPP into - - -It needs to go into the brown district; whatever number that is. CHR. SIRACUSA: You are saying to put Hawaiian Paradise Park into District 5? MR. MELROSE: Of course. It is the only way to do it. I'm not sure you can do that and keep the numbers right. That is the challenge. 22