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• • • • accomplished . as well as service ,to the people. That is :one of many that we :have. tackled. • . MRS. KOBAYASHI : . One last question. On that reapportionment in , your. letter. you talked about the voter registration and then you. have .a .perceage of voters. When I added the 11%, 122%, 82% and 11%, I only get 41%. MRm MU7S,SFZ3I realli zeg(tha`t6S confusing® Let me clarify it a little bit. Each representative in District 1 would represent 11% of the voters of the county. In other . words, there are 22% of the registered voters in District 1 . Two times the 11%. District 2 , the City of Hilo, would have three' .represented. Each of which would represent 121/2%. So , Hilo gets 372% of the voters. District 2 has 372% of the voters in the county. District 3 would be two times the 82%, 17% and District 4 would be two times . the 11%, 22%. Now I think that adds us to 99% which. is as close as you can come rounding things off. If you want to put those in per . registered voter, I can give you the figures rather than percentage. District 1 would have a representative for every 4, 602 registered voters es of the 1978 election. District 2 • would have a representative for every 5 , 300 registered voters. District .3 would have a representative for every 3 ,5c31 -and . District 4 would have a representative for every 4,834® MRS. KOBAYASHI : And you did away with any at-large councilmen based on. . MR. MOSS: Yes. Any at-large councilmen , it • seems to me, just control the balance of power on the County Council and they do not reflect the feelings of the various districts. • One thing I 'd like to point out. Whoever • divided up the districts.. . The four representative districts. -1 dhink did a very excellent job of getting a comn'oriality of interests in each one of those districts. For instance, if. you look at nis:trict 1 which is Ka'u, Puna and the south part . of Hilo, you find you are talking sugar, diversified agri- culture, in general. They have that common interest through- - out. District 2 is the rest of South Hilo and. you have mostly the city, itself, and it is the shipping point ; the focal . point certainly for the sugar industry and for general commerce . on the island. District 3 where you have North Hilo, Hamakua and North Kohala, you again have sugar as the common interest plus diversified agriculture. And in District 4, South Kohala, ' North and South Kona you have basically ranching; you have the tourist industry. You have the common interests, they are all different. Each one of the districts has a different interest in general but they are all pretty much common to the, . various districts that make up that representative district. MRS. KOBAYASHI : How would you go about chosing a. chairman- then in this one? • MR.. MOSS: : As. it is done today, the council .picks its own chairman, . • • - 16 -