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STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC CHR. SIRACUSA: Our first testifier is Stathie Prattas. STATHIE PRATTAS (At this time Stathie Prattas came forward to address members of the Commission.) MR. PRATTAS : I'm Stathie Prattas from District 6 area, Middle Ke `e area. I want to commend you guys for taking on this difficult task; I know the pay is lousy, but thank you very much for that. As I was saying, I favor Plan _23 at this point, because I think it represents a fair split up of West Hawaii. I like that it's not as obtrusive as the other plans into carving out natural areas of West Hawaii. Thank you. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you. Our next testifier is Charles Flaherty. CHARLES FLAHERTY (At this time Charles Flaherty came forward to address members of the Commission.) MR. FLAHERTY: Aloha. My name is Charles Flaherty and again thank you so much for your volunteer effort; it's very much appreciated. I also want to thank very much your professionalism, and you're following the new law that we have in place. I also wanted to thank Brenda Ford for having really advocated for those changes to make it really a much better process and make it much more simple for the commissioners as well as for the public to understand. I quite frankly don't have a favorite map at this particular point and time. I do want to acknowledge Margaret Wille's efforts; I know that she's been talking with people in all of the communities around the island. My initial thoughts had I drawn a map were to be just sort of start from the National Park and work from there; the Volcanoes National Park, knowing that it occupies most of district 6 at this particular point and time. At this time the line for District 6 and 7 is just sort of south of Choice Mart, so this entire mauka commercial area is in District 7. However, it looks like I'm not sure if the numbers are going to make it possible in any way that any map that's drawn, if Puna's to get two representatives, which I think they do deserve. I think the question becomes where you're going to put the extra people from Puna? Are you going to put them in District 6 or are you going to put them with Hilo? And the lines sort of go from there. But at the same time, like I said, I know Margaret's worked with different community groups especially in Puna, and in her area as well, but I would just note on this map that she just handed out; if something along the lines of this map were to be done, I would include this conservation district area in district 6 because - -- CHR. SIRACUSA: Would you verbalize that so when we go back and look at the testimony we would know what you're talking about. MR. FLAHERTY: Oh I'm sorry, it shows Kealakekua Bay okay, and this is the Kealakekua Bay State Park and this portion right here is also part of the Park. CHR. SIRACUSA: The little part that sticks out there? 3