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Form B-52 7/18/91 DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION DEPARTMENT: Parks and Recreation DATE: 9-11-08 STAFF CONTACT: Pat Engelhard PHONE: 8420 A. REQUEST: For a commitment of $158, 250 in fiscal year 2010 and an equal amount in fiscal year 2011 for a Feasibility Study for the installation of a new boat ramp at Mahukona in North Kohala. B. BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION (USE ADDITIONAL SHEETS AS NEEDED): The Army Corps of Engineers, after several years of preliminary study by the Honolulu Area Office, has received permission to complete a Feasibility Study into the installation of a new boat ramp at Mahukona. The Corps staff in Washington D.C. has given the Honolulu Office a deadline of September 30, 2008 to have the contract completed with the County of Hawaii. The County has the first of three increments, in the amount of $278,000, in the 2008/09 P&R budget. The additional two funding increments needed must be made available in 2010 and 2011 to the Army Corps via a contract which must be signed by September 30, 2008. The study will determine if it is feasible to construct a new boat ramp in Mahukona. If it is, recreational and commercial fishermen from North Kohala will no longer need to trailer their boats to Kawaihae in order to launch and fish in the waters off North Kohala. Subsequent funding needed if feasibility is determined and the County decides at that time to proceed with the construction of the project will mean that the County must pay 10% of the cost for designs and specs if the depth is less 20' and must pay all of the cost of the boat ramp, docks and access road. The Army Corps will pay for the entrance channel, turning basin and wave attenuation structure (breakwall). A ball park figure for the County's cost beyond the Feasibility Study is $5 to $6 Million. SIGNED: DATE: Department Head