2022_07_19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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M: Maurice quick question, after the Corps of Engineers do their inspection there – will they give us options? Like if it’s more feasible financially to just build a new ramp instead of just constantly fixing it like the one you said with the three parts, you know what I mean? MM: Um, so again. They’re not looking to touch the boat ramp. That is county jurisdiction that’s gonna be required – county funding – so they’re not looking at that at all. M: OK. MM: Yeah, my understanding at the hold up for these numerous years was the county didn’t necessarily want to try and fix the boat ramp with a bad breakwater, right, ‘cause it would just degrade it even further but their engineers came out and they said, you know what, it’s not gonna affect it too negatively if we went ahead and started working on the boat ramp and so, again, that’s what we can control in the county – is the boat ramp – so that’s what we want to do – we want to make the boat ramp useable again as soon as possible – so as soon as we can get the funding together, - we do have a contractor that was on contract - I don’t know – five or six years ago when this conversation started – so we have reached back out to them and I think what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna do a new contract with a new scope of work – find out what the cost is gonna be for us and then we go to administration and say – this is how much it’s gonna cost – you want to raise this priority over all the other CIP projects that are out there, you know, for the reasons we’ve already discussed and we need the funding to make it happen. So Army Corps isn’t gonna touch the boat ramp at all – their jurisdiction is strictly the breakwater – that’s what they’re gonna run with… AA: Thank you, Maurice. b. Vice-Chair GMAC Commissioner Brian Ley will report on the Pohoiki Boat Ramp and the Kumukahi Lighthouse access. AA: At this time, we’re going presentation from Vice Chair GMAC Commissioner Brian Ley – he going report on the Pohiki Boat Ramp and the access to the Kumukahi Lighthouse. We had fishermen reach out to our Commission asking when the Kumukahi Road is gonna be reopened. Brian recently went to a Pahoa community meeting so he’s gonna give us an update on that. BL: Brian – District 4. Yeah, they revitalized Pahoa meeting last night. I went there and \[unclear\] McCall – they, it was, ah, this is the low down, of course, when the government’s involved this could be changing everyday but as of last week the design they’re waiting for EAs – that was the predominant thing – EA, EA, EAs – and the reason for the EA even though it was an emergency/a disaster and we just want to put the boat ramp back the way it was - was that they need to do an EA to see how it’s – when they dredge everything – where it’s gonna end up and stuff like that – that’s one of the concerns that they have and, of course, they have funding constraints and they’re expecting the EA to be done in November and in June of 2023 they’re going to open bids and they’re hoping that the Pohiki launch ramp will be open in 2024 – that’s the latest, you know, of course things change everything but as of last week at the revitalized Pahoa and as far as the roads and that’s a FEMA thing, once again, you know, they just kept talking about all the EAs that need to be done, we just need to get the lava off the road and make the road the way it 16