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GREENWELL: The representation on the commissions though has never been one that is relative to the population. It ' s geographic districts . So I can' t see that that would enter into it. Unless that ' s gonna be changed along with other districts . And you might pick up later. BETHEA: Yes , I think that ' s correct, Mr. Greenwell . The idea was to get in people from other sections of the island and not just by a reference to population centers. At least that ' s the way I read it. GREENWELL: Population' s better than using a (inaudible) determined what . . .where the division. . .where the representatives would be coming from. Purely geographical. L'ORANGE: Mr. Chairman. Sherwood pointed out to me I 'm incorrect . There ' s six representatives; it ' s not five. GREENWELL: And we showed one of those (inaudible) coming from Hana. BETHEA: Yeah, actually, again I would remind the commission that we have two and the commission' s new counsel that we have, what would appear to be are the confusing references in the Charter. Sometimes we talk about geographical areas. And other times we talk about districts . And quite frankly, I don' t know what the difference is between the two, between a geographical area and a district. And it gets to be quite important when you' re looking at these things in terms of appoint- ing commissioners. I believe the Planning Commission refers to geographical areas . And it says the public at large and geographical areas of Hamakua, etcetera, etcetera. I think one of the things we want to struggle for is to have the document be consistent and make sense. L'ORANGE: We can. . . BETHEA: But we could combine a district. If we want a district representation, you could combine Ka 'u and Puna or something. CUSHNIE: It ' s something we've discussed before; it ' s a real philosophical question of representing the County equitably. BETHEA: Well , we could just leave out Ka 'u. CUSHNIE: If I may go back a few steps . Mr. Luke, 360