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MR. MELROSE: The other one was that specific piece of the Code that allows an Alternative Plan that is less flexible; I mean less deviant; has a deviation less than - -- MS. EOFF: Is the language for that already contained in COMM. 60.3? MR. MELROSE: What it doesn't say is that the Commission is recommending to the County Council that they consider doing such. MS. EOFF: Okay. Then maybe number four could have a couple of bullet points under number four and those would be that the Commission recommends that the County Council consider addressing Chapter 36 of the County Code to make these recommended changes. MR. MELROSE: Right, and just identify the place in the Code. MS. EOFF: Then maybe we won't have any more than four recommendations, but number four would be more detailed to include the motion that we are discussing. MR. MELROSE: Right; so if you want to take a quick break, as I think that is what Commissioner Bo was suggesting, that we could write that up. And I think if there is some interest in addressing number two in kind of changing the words to place a little bit more specific to it, or more thought to it, then let's bring that back as soon as we do this and do this all one time. CHR. SIRACUSA: With that in mind, we are not going to take the vote on this motion at this point, we are going to take a little break to allow Corporation Counsel to draw up some language and then we will return and finish that part and then work on any other recommendations one at a time. MS. EOFF: We can take a minute to type that out for you. RECESS: At 11:00 a.m. the Chair called for a short recess. RECONVENE: The meeting was reconvened at 11:15 a.m. CHR. SIRACUSA: We have the wording of the change and then, I don't know, we may have to do that motion over again based on that wording. But, this is to replace number four in the Commission recommendations for Final Report. So number four, "The 2011 Redistricting Commission found that overwhelming public input supported keeping `communities of interest' together which proved to be far more important than the lowest numerical deviation. Accordingly, the Commission recommends that the Hawaii County Council consider amending Chapter 36, Hawaii County Code (2005 Edition, as amended), as follows: 14