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MR. UDOVIC: I don't know if that is entirely true, depending upon -- -This is a draft of the report, so if you have specific recommendations, aside from the memorandum that was prepared; because we tried to distill the specific recommendations from the Commissioners; of all the Commissioners that actually did submit recommendations in this Communication 60.3. So that is what we tried to do, and we wanted to make sure that we didn't editorialize or diminish the contribution from any of the Commissioners; so we left those pretty much, or exactly the way they were proposed; because I didn't want to be the one who was changing someone's statement. But the four specific statements on Communication 60.3, pretty much reflected the ones that each one of the Commissioners who provided information had done so. MR. MELROSE: Just to follow up; I didn't have a chance to see COMM. 60.3 so thank you. It looks like you did that, and we can actually amend that Communication as part of this action. The one point that I didn't see, and I think it would be good for the Commission to talk about, is the recommendation that there be some leeway on the individual district variation, of a point or two, as long as it didn't exceed the 10% in total. I think there may be some value in that, but I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on it. That, I think the Chair and a couple of others may have suggested as an option; and it's not in this Communication as I see, or am I not getting it right? I'm done; are there any other thoughts on that? CHR. SIRACUSA: Hold on; I'm looking at that number 4, which might be it. No, it's not. That is about the Alternate Plan with the better deviations; which might be worse otherwise. I was thinking also, that we would like to make a recommendation along those lines too. Because I think, if we had had some leeway, some discretion, with written justification, of course, to add a percentage point, as long as the whole thing didn't exceed 10 %, I think we could have made a lot more people happier all around the island. It seems like we've been given a lot of discretion on almost all of the other criteria, except of course, having to use the census figures. But, other than that - - -So why can't we have a little discretionary leeway there also? That is my personal feeling, and so if all of us have the same feeling about that, we definitely might want to put it in. MR. UDOVIC: These are comments that you are making, not comments with the law. Pretty much the status of the law is that 10% is the deviation; it is the model, so I am really kind of reluctant to suggest that you change that at all. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: No, that wasn't his point. His point was that we stick with 10 %, but you might go to 7% and 3 %, as opposed to 4.99% being the limit on any one district. Is that in the Ordinance? MR. UDOVIC: The Ordinance is 4.99 %; any district cannot be more than 4.99 %. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: Because a lot of the controversy that ensued - -well, not controversy, necessarily, but what went on with Volcano, and what went on with Kea`au, and with some of these other things- -might have been avoided had we been able to go to say, 7 '/2 % and 2 '/2 %. That would have meant some others be smaller and so on.