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MR. FLAHERTY: The summary is that even if you have inadvertently caused incumbents to be favored in this case, with the change, I think it would be in the interest of the Commission, with regard to your excellent integrity and performance to date, to reverse those changes and go back to the original map. Thank you very much. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. I think we have another testifier in Pahoa. MS. LIVELY: Thank you, Madam Chair, we do have one more testifier, and it's Patrice MacDonald and she is commenting and she is representing Upper Puna. PATRICE MACDONALD (At this time Patrice MacDonald came forward from Pahoa to address members of the Commission.) MS. MACDONALD: Hello, Commissioners. I am going to leave that boundary decision up to you. I believe that you can resolve that by yourself. My main concern is that every time that we get a final map, I go home and I find out that we have a different map. My one concern is that what would become District 4, that is now District 6, has no continuity with Kea`au at all. I do believe that one of the Commissioners had said people in Kea`au wanted to stay with Hilo, but the majority of people, that is our regional town center in Kea`au. Going by the population, I noticed that there are a couple of thousand extra in District 2 and 3 and 5 compared to District 4. This is just going on your numbers. I still would try to get part of Kea` au into our Upper Puna district. I think it is extremely important to us. That's it. Thank you. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. Is there anyone else out there, either in Waimea, Kona, or Pahoa who wishes to testify? Is there anyone in Hilo who wishes to testify? In that case, I am going to call up the final testifier here in Hilo, Jamae Kawauchi, representing the County Clerk's office. JAMAE KAWAUCHI (At this time Jamae Kawauchi, County Clerk, came forward to address members of the Commission.) MS. KAWAUCHL Good afternoon, Chairperson Siracusa, Commissioners of the Hawaii County Redistricting Commission. My name is Jamae Kawauchi, Hawaii County Clerk. As your Clerk, I did request, through a Communication, to respectfully request that the Commission hold a Special Meeting to discuss what was reported on in the Hawaii Tribune Herald and West Hawaii Today on December 9, 2011. When I had read the articles, I became concerned that the good work of the Commission would somehow have a unfavorable perception in the public, and that your work and the plan that you had accepted as your Final Plan, would need to be discussed in the open, as to continue with your policy of being above board at all times, and to have a public dialogue to be able to explain perhaps your decisions and also to have continued discussion, deliberation on your Final Plan, should you chose to do that. At no time have I considered that, or stated that any of the 15