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CHR. SIRACUSA: Let's see. Shyla, can you try and put Paradise Park into District 5? That's not going to work, because then District 4 has too few; unless we grab Ainaloa, or something like that to bring up the numbers again. MR. MELROSE: That's the other change, is to move Ainaloa into the lower one. CHR. SIRACUSA: Let's try again putting Hawaiian Paradise Park into District 5 and then putting Ainaloa into District 4. Put that into District 5, because that is the Shower Drive portion of Paradise Park there. Now, go down to Ainaloa and put that into - - -Oh, it already is in District 4. It's not going to work. It's not going to work; we tried. The numbers just don't work, so let's go back to Draft Plan—B. Can we zoom in now on the Pahoa area? MR. MIDDLESWORTH: Let me ask a couple of questions before we start messing around with maps. Can we make some decisions about communities and what we want to do? Are we committed to putting Waikoloa in District 9? Are we committed to splitting certain communities, and not splitting others? If we decide that, it will make drawing the maps a whole lot easier. MS. POINDEXTER: I want to jump in real quick. We heard a lot of testimony about keeping the commonality of communities together. Even with Pete Hoffmann saying we are responsible to change the politics for the next years; and this is a political thing that we are dealing with, we cannot run away from that. But I want to focus back to what Zendo said; working together. So if you keep the common interests of communities together; like I see the Hamakua district not going into Hilo because, from the Wailuku River out, the commonalities there along that coastline is Ag. So, the decision was, do you move into Hilo and disrupt that, or do you move further into Waimea, who has more things in common with that whole area? And I understand one of the testifiers saying that the Councilman from District 1 never came up to Waimea, when Waimea was in it, but now, if we grow Waimea more into it, because we need to grow; I would prefer growing into a place that is more common, which we talked about last week. And we decided moving more into Puanani, which is still the countryside of Waimea. Because, Waimea, once you get into the downtown, and the dry side, then you are talking about very expensive property. They have more in common with Waikoloa and Puako. That is where I am leading, so I want to make sure that we look at the commonalities of the communities and working together, because Waimea can have a strong voice; the people have the power. Now you are going to get more people power in Waimea in District 1; so it forces the District 1 County Council to work with District 9 County Council, and work together. We are responsible for the next ten years of creating that type of politics. And what we have got to pursue is the people power; so I want to say that what we were talking about with District 1 and District 9, about commonalities, I want to go with that. I understand we are going to have to split some communities, but that is just a line; we are not actually really splitting a community. Like what was said earlier, we are going to work together. MR. CARVALHO: Okay, I understand that, Val. We have this whole bunch of people, like you say, that have more common interests; which is true, with the Ag part of it, the country part of Waimea, the east side. But that is Waimea. So we are talking about trying 23