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CHR. SIRACUSA: Dru, did you want to say anything? MR. KANUHA: Just again, to echo all the Commissioners that spoke sentiments. It is the exact same thing. The proof is in the pudding; it is in the minutes. If everybody - - -If they wrote the minutes in the paper, it would have been a whole different story. It says it right here why we changed what we changed; who said it, why we did it; there is a connectivity issue, we put 100 people here, 100 people needed to go someplace else. I stand up for this plan that we made 100 %; no doubts about it. I think nodding our heads the same thing. I wanted to say more, but you guys said so much already, yes it's a great plan. CHR. SIRACUSA: Mike. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: I agree with everything that has been said. I would point out that in that last meeting, that we had, that was not the only change that was made. We changed the Saddle Road alignment, we changed the Kealakekua Bay alignment, we made a change between 7 and 8; there was a Mauna Lani change. There were a bunch of changes made to straighten out things where it had become clear that the map would have been better if we changed a few things. This was just one of a bunch of things that got changed. Now, theoretically, we could go back today and change some things, if somebody felt that there was a need to. But I think all of us feel that this map that we have done, is a good map, and probably is about as good as anybody could do. We worked very hard at this process for a long time, gone through someone said map 46. We have gone through stacks and stacks of maps; ones we did, ones Margaret Wille did, ones other people did. This was a collaborative effort between us and the community and I don't have anything to feel unhappy about at this point. MS. POINDEXTER: And I just want to say one thing for those of you who stayed and all; thank you for allowing us to clarify what had happened. And I respect you for staying and even respect you for coming up and speaking your mind. Everybody had their own opinion, and perception. Because your perception becomes your reality and so I thank you for staying and allowing us to clarify our point. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. It's my turn. I'm not going to repeat what other people said because it's been said already. I want to point out a couple of things. When you go to look at the transcript of that meeting, I will save you a lot of time. You don't have to read anything before page 22; that is where the whole thing starts and you will start seeing why, what our discussion was with 8 '/z Camp, it had to do with there was no road connectivity. Sometimes we looked at something and we thought we had it, and all of a sudden somebody noticed, wait a second, these people, their road doesn't go anywhere. You know, we have to make some changes. In Hilo, there was a little piece like this that came down. It was like a fish hook. And one of the things we are supposed to do was work for compactness. And so we removed the fish hook. Well, oops, that's when things started happening, and we had no idea that by removing that fish hook we would be shifting incumbents around. And it just made a neater line, and that is what one of the criteria we are supposed to go for. We have a whole lot of criteria to balance here folks. Not only do we have the numerical deviations, 24