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CHR. SIRACUSA: I am reconvening the meeting because I have been notified that that software is now up. Shyla, can we have a look at it? Or, do we want to finish what we were doing over ere? MR. KANUHA: Can we just save this and move it over for a later discussion? CHR. SIRACUSA: Just call it "Untitled F for now; keep it simple. Shyla; "Untitled Lplan. Okay, we were going to look at Margaret's suggestion. MR. KANUHA: Can you go back and look at the James Weatherford one? That's the one we wanted to look at after the - -- CHR. SIRACUSA: Let's have a look at this and see how it was handled down in Pahoa. Just to remind us, that the bypass is now the boundary in this one. So District 5 has all of Pahoa, and District 4 doesn't. Should we go down and look at the Opihikau part of it that James was talking about, before we go up to Kea` au? Okay; Shyla; okay that is Kamaili Road. The numbers are okay right now. Let's slide up a little bit -- -That is one of those census block things, there are a lot more numbers there. MR. MELROSE: Madam Chair, can you explain a little bit why we are exploring that at Pahoa; what do you think are the driving issues that make us need to make the change in Pahoa, as opposed to leaving it the way it is? I think the town has - - -Is it a voting location for voting? Or is it a- - -What is the driver on that? CHR. SIRACUSA: Actually, the locations for voting are the same whether the bypass or the Pahoa Village Road is used, as long as it is in District 5. If it is in District 4, that creates voting location problems. The idea, I think, behind what James and others have been telling us, is that, just like other communities have come forward and said, "Don't divide us," that even though Pahoa doesn't have a very large population, it is more of a commercial village center, still there is that feeling about what do you mean you are cutting Pahoa right down the middle of the main road. And if we are doing that to Kea` au also, then that is two communities in Puna that are both centers. So, what this plan does, as I understand it, is trying to do is give one major commercial area to District 4 and give the other one to District 5, without dividing. MS. POINDEXTER: But Kea`au, actually, wouldn't mind being part of Hilo, so that - -- CHR. SIRACUSA: That is what some people are saying. And yet, other people are saying, "Hey, traditionally Kea` au has always been the gateway to Puna." In this case, it would be the gateway to both Puna's. MS. POINDEXTER: But the people we heard from, from what Mike said, was people actually in Kea` au. W