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MRS. WILLE: Good evening commissioners, Margaret Wille. I'm from Waimea, I'm not from this area. When I first reviewed all the maps I felt that they were generally very good for one area and terrible for some other areas. So I've tried to work with different communities around the island, and sort of get their input and with great difficulty work to combine those. My map started out, well 38, 39, 40 so it's now going through different adjustments, and there's a copy of it over there. I've sent this out to various people around and gotten their comments and made changes and I'm just going to make a few comments to some of the testimony tonight and why it's how it is or what I thought about those ideas. To start with, that tail conservation area that Chuck Flaherty talked about where it's sort of a long strip up right along the ocean, and so it either needs to go into one, it's going to stick out one direction or the other, you can't go right down a line. I understand what he is saying and I think that it makes sense to move it to 6, and then if someone from Hokulia is looking, well why didn't you keep us right up to the shore, but now, from his testimony you can understand why that would be. The map for this area as it's adjusted now, there are a lot of similarities to plan 23 but I'm just going to explain why the major difference between this plan and 23, and why I think this is a little bit better. I have the map right now but if you look at it you're going to see that the line between 7 and 6 runs right down the highway, Route 11, so that the mauka section of Kealakekua is in one district, and so the Courthouse is on one side, and then McDonald's would be in a different district. I really tried to draw lines where they cut across the highway so that's if you look at this you're going to see how; here's Hokulia, and you've got the line going right there so that at least you would have the urban center of Kealakekua all in one district, and that the line would be in the most rural line between Kealakekua and Captain Cook. If you try to incorporate both of those communities, you sort of knock everything up and start cutting right through the middle of communities so I erred on the side of keeping communities together, and not necessarily keeping all communities that have been together, together. Let me just say one thing about this plan is, it no longer, most of the concentration of Volcano is all on the East side, so that in my view it gives Captain Cook a really powerful voting block in 6. If you start looking at the maps, it's not like over the tail end of Volcano or something. I also wanted to bring up what Chuck said about the school. There is one census block that could be moved on that is in one of these plans. Again here the residential area of that road which is mauka I got all into one district but my understanding from talking to some Kona people, that there is people going to this school from both districts and by putting the line here it kept it so that you weren't cutting through any road neighborhood, but you sort of gave the school somewhat on both sides. I'm not saying anything here is right; I'm just trying to explain why I made those choices. I also based this on some of the testimony from the other night changed or sort of an alternative version of 7/8 line. In other words how you handle Kona. Let me just quickly say that this plan puts the entire watershed waterfront area into one district, District 7. And you can do it either way; you can do it say down Henry Street sort of a line where both districts would have a portion of the downtown, or you could do it the way I did it here for example where you're giving the entire Bay one district, which I think has advantages at least like Puako and Kawaihae in that area, really feel it's important to be working on reef areas and stay together so. Thank you very much. 5