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CHR. SIRACUSA: This is 53.1. We might want to go to (1) first, and show that dingle dangle as a point of reference, and then move over to (2) and see my original suggestion for addressing that. Then take a look at the Weatherford /Stoddard suggestion for that same area. Can you zoom in, Shyla, to that interface centered around Kea` au? Right where it says District 3, that little dingle dangle there. That is the part where a lot of Kea` au is in District 3. Yet, if you look at the numbers of District 4 and District 5, they both would allow a little more population; and District 3 would not be under, if we took some population away from it. So now let's look at Final Draft Plan amended (2) to see how I originally thought we might address that. Zoom in; not it's the same one. Go to "open local." We had it backwards. Okay, we'll look at all of those, then we will have some basis for making a decision. Zoom, zoom. Okay, this one puts the bypass and a good portion of Kea`au into District 4. Now, it could still be better. Let's take a look at Mike's now. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: Before we get away from there; I'm the representative from District 3, which means that this community is my concern as Honoka`a was Val's concern, and Puako was Joe's concern. The reason that that earlier map had Kea` au in District 3 was because the Village of Kea` au is not terribly populated, but the business interests and the landowners in that area feel much closer to Hilo than they do to Puna and to the residential subdivisions. They would much prefer to stay connected to Hilo because they are principally businesses. It is not a big residential area, it is not going to grow in terms of population, and as I say, they feel that their connection is to Hilo. That is their community of interest, so to speak; just as Puako's community of interest is North Kona, I mean North Kohala. But that was the reason that I had tried to keep Kea` au within one of the Hilo districts for all of this time. And, as I say, I feel strongly about it because a number of those people feel strongly about it, and that was the reason it was there. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. I don't - -- MR. MIDDLESWORTH: Let me say this; it does not belong to Puna. These places do not belong to a judicial district. They are not the property of a judicial district. They are the property of the people who live there, and if the people who live in a community have a choice, then I think that we should honor that choice. CHR. SIRACUSA: I agree with that, although we haven't had anyone from Kea` au come and testify. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: You have not had anyone from Kea`au come in and testify either way. CHR. SIRACUSA: That is right; either way. Okay, should we look now at the plan, the alternate way of dealing with this that was submitted by James Weatherford and Scott Stoddard. Do we only have screen shots of that one, Karen? MR. MIDDLESWORTH: I think it is the last one on the list. 0