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Puako and Waikoloa, I'm convinced that the community has voiced their opinion, they want to be part of Kohala, District 9, and I support that wholeheartedly. Thank you. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you Bo. Jeff MR. MELROSE: Thank you. I think I have two bottom lines. One is that whatever we do doesn't exasperate the tensions that are continually getting in our way politically, island - wide, and so I'm not interested in creating a circumstance that somebody else is going to try and define as a political move because that's certainly not what we're doing and isn't fair to claim on us and I don't want to do that. So, as it relates - - -I think that Plan A, my sense of Plan —A has been that it really probably is ten years from now, we're gonna look at Plan —A and say that's really what's gonna happen next. If Hamakua doesn't grow in population it's gonna have to and continue to infringe on other communities in order to be a district in the future. At some points it will get split. If it doesn't grow it will get split because it can't just keep moving into other communities. So I think that's just a harbinger of the future as far as Hamakua's concerned. I think as far as District 2 is concerned, the river is a good boundary I'm still a little kanalua about missing the Pueo urban core right off the side of the river, would be better in Hilo if it could be that, but I like a mauka /makai orientation and I'm all for maintaining the Pana`ewa/Keaukaha connectivity — maybe Waikea Uka — that that connectivity is the logical seat so that 2 goes up and down to the ocean and then there is a way to keep Keaukaha together with Pana`ewa and additional votes going up Waiakea Uka would be my suggestion. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. I should skip over Patrick because we all know what he's gonna say. Nah, no; go on Patrick. MR. KAHAWAIOLA`A: Thank you madam chair for including me in this discussion. I think what Commissioner Melrose mentioned about we not - -- The perception that can be out there that what we've done or are proposing to do is again somehow politically motivated. I would also want to make sure that that's not the perception that's out there. However, if it is, that's right, so be it, thick skinned and all. But I thought it was a valid opportunity to hear from our community. Today, this morning, we heard from several people. I never thought we would, but we did. We received from the community, which is what I'm really concerned about, all the communities, you know, people were thanking this Commission for the work that they've done, the transparency of it. Is it the Ordinance? Is it the new software? Is it more engaging of communities? Yes, I think if push comes to shove all of that together has made for a different atmosphere of wanting to be truly represented. I think we've all heard the fact that no matter where we went, somebody was somewhere getting or having the opportunity to gravitate to have to either give up something or take someplace else that we're not comfortable with. So I would again want to thank all of you, my spin is just that with - - -I have just one regret that if there are people in our communities that believe what's being done is perceived to them to be Hilo- centric I can't see that because if you remember this young man that came first to our Kea`au -- excuse me-- Pahoa, where he mentioned that we live on an island and as far as native Hawaiians were concerned, we live on Mokupuni o Hawaii, Mokupuni o 37