2022_04_19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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the issue of boulders blocking access to the ʻŌlaʻa Forest Reserve behind the Volcano Solid Waste Transfer Station. AA: Right now it looks like we got Mr. Ramzi Mansour acting Solid Waste Division Chief, sorry. We’ll have a discussion on up at the Volcano Transfer Station about the boulders blocking the public access to Olaa Forest Reserve. RM: Yes, Aloha Commissioners – this is Ramzi Mansour – the Director of the Department of Environmental Management and I believe also I have my Acting Solid Waste Division Chief Mike Kaha, as well, on the line. And we’re here today to address any of your questions or concerns pertaining to that road accessing DLNR property, the reason my staff – we definitely need to get into an agreement – we have no issues people accessing that road for hunting purposes but the challenge that we have from a transfer station operation – people have been cutting the fences and getting inside our facility to do – to wash their games after they finish the hunting process and, um, it’s just not being secure. So we need to get into some type of memorandum of agreement with DLNR on the responsibility of maintaining that road and the gate to it so at least we don’t have vandalism and people cutting our fence to the transfer station so we definitely don’t object to the idea of people accessing that road – it just – we need to get into a better understanding of the role and responsibilities. So if Mike, if you, I don’t know if he’s already logged in – he could add more to it but like I said, we don’t object to people accessing but we need to have an agreement with DLNR on the maintenance and the upkeep of, you know, people cutting the fences and what have you – going into our facility. AA: OK. First of all, thanks for correcting me on your position, Mr. Mansour. I was just going off of what was written over here, but, anyway, thanks for the correction. As far as what you’re stating, I really don’t think you’re correct because if somebody gonna catch a game in the back of your guys’ facility you guys don’t have potable water so that doesn’t make sense to me of who – why would they be washing their game with unpotable, unclean water? Who would do that? SM: Well, that, well, I’m just reporting to you what my staff has been noticed, right… SM: ….over the year and… AA: Right, I understand and I’m just stating that… So, like I said many times before, I’m a lifelong resident here and I’ve been hunting up there for many years and I’ve been there from before the facility was upgraded, right, and there was no problem back them – the only problem was the problem that you probably still have today – if you open up the road is, even though your transfer station is right there – people still seem – still not to find out how to dump their trash, right, so we still would be encountering the problem of people dumping the trash on the side of your guy' facility. Now, when you guys upgraded the facility – you guys put the fence in there – it’s not hunters that’s breaking in – so hunters and gatherers should not be penalized for other people’s negligence for cutting you guys’ fence for trespassing – Barett you like put up that one picture with the two people walking on the… I personally took this picture on a weekend when I was up there and this is two people while the facility is closed that went through the fence that somebody cut through – do they look like hunters or gatherers to you? 2