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COMMUNICATIONS CHR. SIRACUSA: Our next item is Communications. We have Communication 57. COMM. 57: REQUEST TO CALL SPECIAL MEETING From County Clerk Jamae K.K. Kawauchi, dated December 9, 2011, requesting the Commission hold a Special Meeting to discuss the Final Redistricting Plan approved on November 30, 2011. CHR. SIRACUSA: Do I have a motion to close file? Mr. Kahui moved to close file on COMM. 57. Seconded by Ms. Ugalde. CHR. SIRACUSA: Okay, I think at this point that the Commissioners would probably like Jamae to come back up again. MS. POINDEXTER: At this point can I say something to clarify some things? I would just like to go over a few things with you so you can understand where I know where I was coming from, and hopefully I speak for the Commission as well. And I just want you to get familiar with the process, because I see a lot of new faces that we have not seen throughout the process. So, I just want to bring you up to speed on what has happened. Whenever we were drawing lines, and doing maps; whenever it affected a specific district, that district representative would contact their constituents and go out to their constituents and say, "Hey, we got to check this out." For example, Pete Hoffmann; when Waikoloa was going to be moved into Kona, they bused people in; he was the cheerleader behind them with all his constituents; because it was going to affect his district. And he has the right to do that because he represents that district. So I respect him for that. He had a right to do that. He brought everybody in, they talked; a lot of people didn't speak, but they wore these badges and stuff, because they kind of, you know, created this, hey, look at all these people. Okay, so that is one County Council district that stood up, right? Okay. So then we went out to public hearings; our first public hearings. And when we went out to the district that I am sitting for, which is District 1 in Hamakua, it is a huge district; one person showed up. Nobody showed up, the place was empty. However, it was okay, because at that point on the map it wasn't affecting Hamakua. Hamakua was left as it was. So the people didn't feel a need to come out. And the representative from that area didn't feel a need to go out to his constituents because it wasn't being affected, right? The next thing that happened when we met again, for some reason we started looking at different maps, and now Honoka`a got thrown into Waimea, right? Remember that? Then, the representative from that district contacted his constituents, and he has a right to do that. And I respect him for that; because he had to let the community know hey, this is happening; if you don't want this to happen, we better get out there and say something. So IW