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Say, if I ran in the 2nd district, next year, what <br /> can I show? That I put a water line into Kona? We voted for <br /> the Kuakini realignment? Or the Kealakehe overpass? Or the <br /> Kailua police station? Or 30 new police positions in Kona? <br /> Nobody in the 2nd district cares. They want Ainalako Road <br /> paved. They want the University Heights Park. .But those <br /> things we put aside because we see other priorities and other <br /> needs. This is the most important philosophical thing I think <br /> you people will have to face. How to make the council <br /> responsive to the whole island as a whole, first, not just to <br /> their representative district. <br /> Our present situation , I think , is good, because <br /> the council has to think of the island, as a whole, first, <br /> and their district secondarily. Because _they=are _accountable <br /> and have -_to- run on an islancwide basis. <br /> If you look at our present council makeup, like as <br /> I said before, there would be nothing in West Hawaii. Simply <br /> because the majority does not come from West Hawaii. Because <br /> of our accountability to West Hawaii , we have seen to it that <br /> the bulk of the CIP and the needed services have gone into the <br /> rural areas. We've constantly made as one of our goals, the <br /> expansion of the police and fire in the rural districts. And <br /> we can do this as a body because we are accountable to the <br /> whole county. If we were just accountable to our own individual <br /> districts, I do not see how that could possibly prevail . <br /> CHAIRMAN SCHUTTE: Steve, do you feel that the present <br /> council makeup is satisfactory? <br /> MR. YAMASHIRO: I think it is. I think it is <br /> probably the best compromise you can have. The next compromise <br /> I would suggest, is if people want direct district representation, <br /> then 5 people but you have to have a large number of at-large <br /> candidates to balance off so no one district can prevail , or no <br /> districts can gang up and leave one district out. <br /> Under a 5-2 situation you could, theoretically, get <br /> three districts together and one at-large candidate, or two <br /> at-large candidates, and a district, and leave it out. I would <br /> think the at-large candidates would be very hesitant to leave <br /> any one area of the island out. <br /> MR. SENSANO: Mr. Chairman. Mr. Yamashiro, in your <br /> proposal , you are suggesting to the commission for a 9 member <br /> council which would allow 5 councilmen out of individual <br /> representative districts and 4 at-large? <br /> MR. YAMASHIRO: That ' s correct. <br /> MR. SENSANO: What would be your thinking of <br /> designating the 4 at-large that you are proposing being given <br /> requirement fora=district for a residency requirement? Say, <br /> dividing the island into two and requiring two of the four to <br /> have a residency requirement on one part of the island and the <br /> other tWo,:.on -the _other___pa.rt of the island? <br /> -9- <br />