2022_07_19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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time the Army Corps of Engineers is working on their major maintenance report. I’m gonna put in the Chat once I’m done talking – my email address – and if anybody wants to put a letter of support, we highly encourage it and we really need it because once the Army Corps of Engineers – once it comes back after the report is done and it says it requires over 8.5 million dollars to fix it, again, it needs to go in front of Congress and so we’re gonna be able to show all the letters of support. One recent change that the Secretary of the Army implemented in the repair projects that the Army Corps of Engineers made is they’re no longer just looking at what’s the cost – what’s the return on investment. They’re now also looking at what’s the cultural impact \[unclear\] and so, and all you folks on this call right now – you know what the cultural impact is for not having that boat ramp along the Hamakua Coast. So what I’m asking is if everybody can just send in letters of support – they can be very simple and what we’re also gonna do is once we get that next boat ramp meeting set-up we’re going to – Abraham, I can email you the date and time of when the meeting is gonna be so you guys can all come out and show your support as well but right now we’re basically having a letter writing campaign in the expectation that this report, which the draft should be done about the end of September by the Army Corps of Engineers – is gonna say that it’s gonna require more than 8.5 million dollars to fix the breakwater. So that’s the low down about what we’re looking to do but it’s good news for us and the County that we can go ahead and move forward with getting the funding sources to repair the boat ramp without waiting for the Army Corps of Engineers and their side. And if there are any questions that I can answer please let me know. Thank you, I appreciate it. AA: Ah, yeah, we get one question over here in Hilo… Ah, state your name… JM: Jaerick Medeiros-Gracia. Um, Maurice, a’ole – do thank you, everybody listening to this. You guys got to realize where is Pohakuloa at right now? Where is the EIS at right now? They have no concern of what we want so if you want to get involved with the Army – get the Army involved in this thing just to go throw your funding to us or whatever it is – there’s funding in there for this thing to be repaired – now from high tide mark three miles out that’s the state. Why not have them fund it? The moment we take the federal funding and Congress starts talking on behalf of us – number 1 Congress have no lawful authority within the Hawaiian Kingdom, yeah, the overthrow is illegal, OK, we got to remember that. You can’t be looking into getting the military involved into something and then what – they going use that boat ramp for the military? A’ole. This is why it’s important that everybody show up to this kind of meeting – who knows what if Mitch Roth is not gonna be the mayor – what if Maurice is not gonna be the Parks and Rec Director, you know? Hey, we got to stand up to this kind of foolishness of them trying to get the government to claim our places, you know what I mean guys? You guys got to wake up and pay attention because… AA: Hey, Jaerickt? Stop one promotion of what you trying to push right now. JM: I not pushing nothing it’s a matter of fact… ?: Abraham? AA: Well, that’s a different topic for another time that’s not right now. JM: No, but, this thing is a’ole. \[Unclear\] 10