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MR. KANUHA: I just wanted to - - -I'm trying to figure out what our motion was in the beginning, because I think I had a comment about it, but I don't really know if it was on the original motion or not. MR. UDOVIC: We look at the four recommendations on COMM. 60.3; we have a fifth recommendation regarding the deviations, right? And a sixth recommendation is that the Council - -I would phrase it this way, if I possibly can - -that the Commission members be encouraged to discuss the Redistricting Plan among their constituents outside of a board hearing; which might just kind of - -- MR. MELROSE: Isn't that part of our job already? I don't see a value in that. MR. UDOVIC: That's what I think the discussion is now. MR. KANUHA: Yeah, I think it turned to that from the original discussion about the deviation, which I kind of had a question about. I understand the reason to think of raising it to a higher deviation which would have considerably helped in our case, for this redistricting. But we try and imagine our community ten years from now, and the 5.99% might not help at all. It might do the same exact thing we are doing; it might split - - -For recommendations of this past redistricting, I agree, yes, the deviations should have been higher. It should have been a little bit higher than 4.99 %. The total deviation wasn't totally what the communities wanted. CHR. SIRACUSA: We could have done a better plan, if we would have had that leeway. MR. KANUHA: Absolutely. MR. UDOVIC: I don't know, I think your plan is pretty decent. MR. KANUHA: I do agree; we have a great plan. MR. UDOVIC: I don't think you should castigate yourselves, quite frankly. CHR. SIRACUSA: We wouldn't have had to make as many compromises as we did. MS. POINDEXTER: However, I think it was a great opportunity for the public to see and learn about compromises and what we had to go through in compromising and like a lot of the public has testified, I hope the County Council has learned from this and work as a team and know that there is compromises that needs to take place and everybody can agree to disagree at some point. But we work as a team, and we had to compromise. And that was a good learning experience, I think, for everybody. CHR. SIRACUSA: I have a question. We have this motion on the floor about adding possibly two more points - -- MR. UDOVIC: It was a motion to amend, I think, COMM. 60.3 11