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MR. OMONAKA: Do we need to go into a public hearing for this if the commission is designed to do something strictly by law? MR. ODA: I think we have to be sensitive to the concerns of the public. MR. OMONAKA: So how many days? CHAIRMAN ISHIDA: I like 120,-days. MR. ODA: I think it is only fair. MR. SAKATA: Then we will go on 120. days base then? Four months. MR. ODA: Four months for the preliminary apportionment plan and maybe the next one. . . let ' s see the public hearing has to be held within a month and a half of the four month period. So that means 165 days will have gone by, right? CHAIRMAN ISHIDA: After the last public hearing you are giving them what, two months? MR. ODA: There is four months plus a month and a half ,that:' s five and a half months after the public hearing:.' The last possible date would be five and a half months after the public hearing. How much time does the commission need after that. CHAIRMAN ISHIDA: Forty-five days after the last public hearing? That ' s'a month and a half. MR. ODA: That is 210 days. No later than the last day of August. CHAIRMAN ISHIDA: Wouldn ' t you have to qualify that last day of which August? MR. ODA: Of the reapportionment year. Is my calculation correct. They are convening the first day of February and we take four months, February, March, April , May. They should have the, proposed reapportionment plan published in the newspaper. They have a month and a half to hold the public hearings. Five and a half months. So the end of August would be about seven months. CHAIRMAN ISHIDA: So you would add on number 9, no later than the last day of August of the reapportionment year. MR. ODA: The commission shall publish the final reapportionment plan in the newspapers no later than the last day of August. The calendar might be a little squeezed on that. Maybe we should give them a little more time on that? -17- J