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• • Maybe if Moon was sick he could appoint me his alternate to come to a county .meeting, or something like that. Or have Moon take Bill Kawahara' s proxy. The Kona people were not represented. If Moon got sick, the Waimea people would not be represented. • • Thank you for listening to me. • "CHAIRMAN' SAKATA:. . Thank you, very much , Mr. Thevenin. The next speaker is Joshua Halemann. • ', MR.- HALEMANN: I have here the suggestions ' that were printed in the '; Test Hawaii paper as charter recommendations. One that I am particularly concerned about is the nine council districts that each councilman be elected from his own 'representative district. • • What I would like to emphasize is that on District #3, I know that North Hilo," ,Hamakua and North Kohala are grouped together, are a ligned_to.gethr•: I feel that North Kohala should be aligned and. represent the 4th District. The • reason • for that is because, take Waimea for instance, it ' s in the South Kohala District. I feel that North Kohala and • Kamuela are more neighborly or closer to each other than North Kohala would be to Hamakua and North Hilo. Therefore, I feel that the councilman elected from North Kohala should be aligned with the 4th District.. South Kohala and North a;nth South Kona. • Another reason, too, is that I think there is more balance as far as E_ar as representatton goes. What would you people feel to that question? MR. TRULSON : Mr. Halemann ,' for one thing, I believe what you are reading in the West' Hawaii Today to not . our re ar mendaf ions. I believe those areF 'itY e paper' s recommendations. We have made no recommendations regarding any of. the charter provisions to date. We will not be doing ' so until after all the public input, so that is not our recommendation. M.R. HALEMANN: My- argument is this , that why • ebu. ladn`' t North Kohala be aligned - with South Kohala and North and South Kona? - • MR. TRULSON: I have no reason why it couldn ' t be and probably nobody here has one, but we haven ' t sat down and studied every .proposal that has been given to us to make a decision. I believe, and maybe Counsel could correct me but I believe that should we decide to go that way, there would have to be an apportionment committee or a group that would study the realignment of the districts. All the charter will do is sayofthere shall be -so many districts. I think there would have to be some committee that would have to outline it. .I think it would probably have to be based after the 1980 census. • • -15-