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<br />5. OLD BUSINESS <br /> <br />a. Stanley Mendes will give an update on the closure of Waipiʻo Valley <br />SM: So, I went to the lookout and talked to the security over there and they’re not letting <br />anyone go down, ah, pedestrians – the only people can go down is the residents and the taro <br />farmers, um, I was there and they had to turn people away and they tell ‘em to go to Pololu <br />Valley instead. The County had gotten this Australian firm to study that road and they came back <br />and made the suggestion to – report the findings to the County and the Mayor and the Council so <br />basically the Mayor and the Council because of these findings shut the road down. There was a <br />big rock slide from the mauka side of the road and, again, I confirm there was a dozer, a D9 dozer <br />that walked down and hit the guard rail – and undermined the road on the makai side so basically <br />that’s what we’re up against. As far as accessing for hunting and stuff like that – unless the <br />Commission can come up with something to go to the Mayor and the Council to open up for the <br />hunters I don’t see that happening and residents and the farmers are really happy about this <br />because the tourists go down and create all kind problems, especially when they driving down <br />and people coming up and they won’t stop and pull over so, yeah, so they not letting anyone go <br />down except the taro farmers and people who live down there. So my suggestion is for the GMAC <br />as far as go hunting and fishing and stuff go to sit down with the County Council and the Mayor <br />and see what they can come up with. <br /> <br />LT: Leomana – District 3. Do we know how long – cause remember the last time we talked we talked <br />about it’s about 5 years it would take – so is that the – still the current – five years. <br /> <br />SM: Yeah, I think, I think going be even longer before they get, you know, cause now they gotta go <br />make all kind – the study was to say that the road was unsafe – how the condition was – and now <br />when they going down there to do stuff they gotta study what to do and stuff like that so I – they <br />said… <br /> <br />LT: A long project, yeah? <br /> <br />SM: Yeah, going be one long project so unless, you know… <br /> <br />AA: Thank you, Stanley, um, as far as, I feel as far as GMAC is concerned about the Waipio access, ah, <br />we don’t, we not gonna really pick this up via tourists going down there and the reason why but, <br />ah, going back to the letter being formed with only for one hunter – public access for the hiking <br />trails and I guess fishing areas, yeah, hunting trails and fishing access, um, well there could be <br />same thing like they said about Volcano Transfer – there still can be – you can defer from a <br />tourist to a local resident and I’m pretty sure all the local residents that’s around the area they <br />know how to drive on that road, how to take turns and whatever they need to do to access that <br />road and if, if the Commission agrees with me – that’s what we should form a letter or go back to <br />the County Council or – and the letter is to the Mayor – so just in that regards – in regards the <br />security should know what a tourist is and a local resident is. Any comments from the <br />Commission of any way that we should keep going this forward in this or we just pass it on. <br /> <br />NP: Ah Nani Pogline here – a commenter from the public. <br /> <br />18 <br /> <br /> <br />