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AA: Ah, I think the fear is that the access will never again be open to the public and I think the public <br />needs reassurance that at some point, at least for residents of Hawaii, the access will be opened <br />up and for GMAC particularly that the access would be opened up for hunters, fishermen, <br />gatherers, so I think maybe GMAC could write a letter requesting that there would be clarity in <br />that that at some point there would be the restoration of access, after all, it’s public access, it’s <br />a shoreline that should be public, um, it seems to me there’s no clarification about if and when <br />we’ll have access again. <br /> <br />LT: Leomana – District 3. I support that. I think, as a native Hawaiian, I know if I wanted to go hunt I <br />can get down there whenever I wanted to. But, like you were saying, I’m kinda afraid for the <br />access for the general public and the hunters because a lot of us still go hunting back in those <br />valleys and if we stop then I’m afraid that the native plants and animals might get affected by a <br />short term overpopulation of the pigs or whatever animals might be living in the back of the <br />valleys that the hunters currently go get and I know a lot of people who still go all the time and if <br />they cannot go then the plants and animals back there they just get destroyed so I support that <br />writing a letter to – as Nani said – gain some clarity to the future of this, um, and I do want to <br />uphold the law – the law is public access to our shorelines and as a native Hawaiian that’s one of <br />my most favorite laws – it gives me the opportunity to go fish and gatherer wherever I need to, <br />um, and I don’t want to stop anybody else from doing the same things so I support that letter. <br /> <br />TN: Teresa in Kona from the public. <br /> <br />AA: Go ahead, Teresa. <br /> <br />TN: I think what we’re referring to is PASH, right? The parity we should have is their thought, their <br />ideas on getting access to hunters and gatherers and the public but with limitations to outsiders, <br />meaning tourists, because I think that’s their biggest issue is having those that don’t understand <br />the relevancy of safety to everybody that lives down there. <br /> <br />AA: Abraham – District 5. Right, you’re right Teresa, and that’s why we’re asking for clarity and that’s <br />why I’m asking \[tape gap\] the Commissioners their opinion on it, but you’re correct, we just <br />need – it has passed but we still can put in our manao on the situation because if nobody’s going <br />down there now, you know, then they’re stopping public access to the shoreline and you know <br />for what we’re for what GMAC was created for… <br /> <br />TN: Yeah, Teresa again from Kona, um, is there a committee that they have, is there ongoing <br />meetings with them, is there someone we can discuss this with and be part of their meetings? <br />I’m just asking, thanks… <br /> <br />DML: Chair Abraham, this is Diana. <br /> <br />AA: Yeah, Diana… <br /> <br />DML: ….and I know that Cyrus Johnasen has been involved in conducting a number of meetings on the <br />issue so he would probably be a good point of contact at the Mayor’s office. <br /> <br />AA: So he’s a County employee? <br /> <br />19 <br /> <br /> <br />