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MS. ISBELL: That is right. He personally feels that he will be back in a few months. But during this period of time we are without representation on a truly honest basis. We have councilmen coming over from Waimea and from Ka'u right now but as you know this island is really big and it is very difficult and a hard thing to do when you don ' t live in that district to come over and listen to the problems of the people and to really be in touch with them. That is another reason we feel districts are so much better-- the single member. MR. SCHUTTE: So your. suggestion _is based around the fact that ii such a case as exists today you could appoint somebody to represent him. MS. ISBELL: He cannot as it exists today. MR. SCHUTTE: I know but what you are sugges- ting is that this be made allowable. MS. ISBELL: And Mr. DeLuz agreed with that. When I_ talked to him he felt-,.that that is a good point to make because he felt bad that he couldn ' t do more and yet he knew he was going to get well. Of course, you know we must believe we are going to get well to get well . He would have liked to have an interim appointment for somebody to help him out. It would have taken a lot of pressure off of him too because he did come back, as you know, and was able to fulfill his duties. So will William Kawahara. He will be back and he will be back representing us again very soon. But until that time we are really struggling and it is a difficult thing to go without a representative. Unless you have ever been in a district without a representative it must be very difficult to realize it but you find out what it is like when a problem comes up and you don ' t know who to go to. And you don ' t really know the other councilmen all that well , sometimes. Many of the people don 't. MR. CADINHA: I have one other request, Ms. Isbell. The public hearings that we are going to hold should give an opporta.nity for an answer. With regard to your recommendation No. 3 on property taxes I ' ll just give you a couple of concerns if you could go back and look and see how you would accomodate these concerns. With regard to properties that are zoned other than residents. There is a good chance of discrimination especially with industrial and commercial use. When an outside capital intensive industry wants to come in they can conceiv- ably be taxed at a much higher basis than a domestic corpora- tion with a like property. That is an area. Secondly, with regard to residents on a stepped up basis. My children come out from college, hopefully they go and finish, and they come back into the community and would like to come back into the community. They are going - 25 -