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WHEREAS, the Council supports the development of a one-yeaz pilot program by the County in coordination with the United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services to accomplish the following: 1. Purchase or build appropriate traps for feral pigs. 2. Formulate a procedure to receive requests for trapping assistance from Hawaii County residents and to obtain written permission from said residents for the setting of traps on private property, including indemnification ofthe County of Hawaii and the United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services and their respective agents from any and all liabilities, losses, or damages arising out of the trapping of feral pigs on said private property. 3. Set, monitor traps, retrieve animals, and do field blood test for animal disease control on the animals that are successfully trapped in accordance with guidelines formulated by the County and the United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services and their respective agents. 4. Formulate a disposition plan for trapped feral pigs, whereby Hawaii County families are able to utilize them for subsistence purposes upon receipt of field blood test results stating that the animal for consumption is free from any diseases. 5. Prepare a written report that shall include, at a minimum, the following harvest information: date of harvest, location of property, name and address of property owner, number of feral pigs trapped, field blood test results, and disposition of animals. 6. Prepare written recommendations for future feral pig control programs in Hawaii County. 7. Present said written report and recommendations to the Council at a regularly scheduled Committee and/or Council meeting in August 2008. WHEREAS, the Council supports the development of a one-year pilot program to trap invasive feral pigs in residential and agricultural communities in Hawaii County by recommending a $250,000 appropriation for the Department of Reseazch and Development to coordinate with the United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services to administer this vital program beginning July 1, 2007 and ending June 30, 2008; and WHEREAS, the Council shall designate one of its members to pazticipate in the formulation of this one-year pilot program with the Mayor, Depaztment of Reseazch and Development, and the United States Depaztment of Agriculture Wildlife Services; now, therefore, 2