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JOYCE FOLENA (At this time Joyce Folena came forward to address members of the Commission.) CHR. SIRACUSA: Joyce, you filled out two slips, but you are only one person. MS. FOLENA: Yes, I didn't know if I was supposed to split the two plans into two - -- CHR. SIRACUSA: One person, one testimony; one person, one vote. MS. FOLENA: I have to thank Rene Siracusa, the Chairwoman of this Redistricting Commission for her discipline. It is not easy to corral nine people, including yourself. I also thank her for being our Puna representative; I have deep respect for this woman. I fully support Plan_RS3, because it divides the two Puna districts into mauka and makai, which is traditionally the most acceptable way to divide these districts because people from way, way back are saying Puna makai, Puna mauka, and they feel it, and they work it, and they live it. There are different needs, activities, cultural activities, business activities, survival activities. They are different in the mountainous or hill regions as compared to the sea and near sea regions. At no time will I ever, ever tolerate Hilo District 3, or District 2 coming into my Puna geographical area. For these reasons, I commend Rene Siracusa for Plan RS3; RS meaning Rene Siracusa. I also thank everyone for their work, it isn't easy. Everyone wants what they want, everyone has to give; everyone has to take. I am very, very grateful --I have to put this in - -that the teleconferencing came back to Pahoa; because we were told yesterday it was blown out by the storm. It was quite a storm. Thank you one and all. CHR. SIRACUSA: I just wanted to say that Plan _RS3 is not on the table because it had other problems, but we are trying to figure out how to put that configuration, that mauka /makai configuration into the draft plan that we are working on. We will be trying to do that today, if at all possible. MS. FOLENA: You just alerted me to something I had not said. Given the time constraints that we all have, including today; this meeting can't go on until 10 o'clock at night. Because Plan _A and Plan _B have been discussed and have been tossed around with the expert help of Shyla, I request that right now, Rene Siracusa's plan takes precedence in the discussion. Thank you. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. We have a testifier in Kona, Pete Hoffmann. PETE HOFFMANN (At this time Pete Hoffmann came forward via videoconference from Kona to address members of the Commission.) MR. HOFFMANN: Good morning Rene and members of the Commission, thank you very much for listening to me again. Believe it or not, Commission members, you are almost in the home stretch of this long process. As I have indicated before, and I will do it again, as many times as I see each and every one of you, thank you for the effort that you have put 7