2022_07_19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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GMG: Jaerick Medeiros Garcia, sorry, isn’t the boat ramp at a wrong angle in the first place? MM: They did all the breakwater studies and the tide studies and the wave action studies and they’re saying no. They’re saying that it’s in a good spot right now and the Army Corps is not looking to re-do – they’re basically just looking to fix in place the break wall the way it is and to the fishermen that were out there when we were at Laupahoehoe Point last time – they all agreed that, you know, if the break wall is fixed it’ll prevent the negative wave action and it shouldn’t be bothering the boats that much going in and out. GMG: OK. My understanding from the boaters is that the break wall is at a wrong angle and if they’re gonna continue to fix something that is broken it’s gonna always be broken, I mean, you know, we gotta kinda really chose our battles, right, if we’re gonna be using taxpayers’ money, more so, and we really want to stay away from using the federal funds because the fact that, you know, the history is long and it’s real – the struggle is real – I know that – but the fact of the matter is we cannot fix something that’s gonna continue to be broken. MM: Yeah, I understand that as well, you know, when we’re looking at the difference between county dollars, state dollars and federal dollars – it all comes over to jurisdiction. What we can control ourselves in our County is the boat ramp and I personally don’t feel that we need to wait around for the state or the federal government to fix their portion when we can go ahead and start getting, out of our own coffers and fix the boat ramp. I think that’s what we need to do – it’s in the mayor’s sustainability portion of his vision and he understands the importance of the boat ramp which is why we’re looking to move on our portion as soon as we can. We don’t want to delay any further on our portion. If the county was in charge of Pohiki, if that was on County land we would also be making the same rule, but unfortunately, it’s not. What we can control is the Laupahoehoe boat ramp and that’s where we’re moving to fix it. GMG: I appreciate that Maurice, and I not here for just bump edges with you, you know how – but, you know, I just trying to get a clear picture in our head to know what we’re getting ourselves into, I mean, the fact that you say the federals took the federals side, um, is that for them to use for their military actions like RIMPAC and stuff like that, um, you know, we’ve got to have some kind of governance on it – the fact that it’s coming from our taxpayers’ money yet they might be putting up a lot of money on their end but the fact is we really don’t need them – why are we using them – my understanding is high tide mark – three miles out is the state – DLNR. Now how is it them – the one – look at Ige just had a what, 104 million dollars over budget – why not use that? MM: Um, again, I do understand what you’re saying and I, you know, right now our Parks and Rec Department, right, we have 300 facilities island-wide. A lot of our facilities they but up against or are conjoined with either federal government or federal lands or state lands and so a lot of times, what we want to do is what we can take care of with our own county – as far as uses – all I can say is – when it was up and running whatever the uses were at that point I would expect that the same uses are again and if you all remember before it was closed how it was used – once it’s fixed those are gonna be the uses again for it. GMG: All right, thank you Maurice, I appreciate that. 14