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HIGASHI: So, the reapportionment thing also has in there, under (5), If the . island is divided into six House districts, the Commission shall adopt those district boundaries as the boundaries within the six council districts, if it is. But remember, we had these canoe districts some time ago when they went to reapportionment. • • MARTIN: Yes, Kohala. HIGASHI: So, if we have six House districts, then they can easily convene and adopt those as our districts. SANTANGELO: George, for a point of information, if this is adopted, by the time it's implemented, we're going to have a Reapportionment Commission, right? Because aren't we finishing up the census? HERKES: No, we're not finishing up until 2000. HIGASHI: Based on the census. SANTANGELO: Yes, but, it seems to be, that by the time this is implemented, we would already have reapportionment going on. HERKES: No, this would be voted on in 2000? The 2002 is the next election to vote on the reapportionment, and there'd be two elections. MARTIN: So, if, in fact, what you're saying is true, John, then no problem if we could couple this with a Commission that's already going to be set up. What I'm afraid of is putting forth a Commission is going to cost the County more money. Some advocate of spending Tess is going to come up and say, hey, kill it because of that fact, and it's a great idea on the top, and it gets killed for the bottom. HIGASHI: What we may consider is to have the language in Section 3-2, that we shall follow the six Representative districts, and when reapportionment comes, we can address that, at that time, if we change. So, I'd like to add that portion in, Mr. Chairman. SANTANGELO: This is something that we're going to work on. HIGASHI: Well, I think we can vote on it today and fine tune it. RAY: Sue. IRVINE: I would like to know what your rationale for this is, Roland. Why do you think this is a good idea? HIGASHI: Not to just be redundant in what he said, but, my feedback from