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CO: Aye. <br /> <br />AA: District – 9, vacant. Six ayes, no nays, motion passes. Okay, moving on to District – 7, Natalie <br />Reynolds, Commissioner report. <br />NR: Natalie, District – 7, I do apologize I have a head cold. Last month on 2/23/23 was the manta <br />ray public hearing. I thought it was a really good turnout, everybody out flooded the room that <br />was allocated for the meeting. There was a bunch of push back from the public and almost, <br />actually, everyone opposed it, ah, the bill for the mantas. You had a lot of native Hawaiians <br />there that opposed it so it was really interesting – other issues that came up from the mantas <br />were about Honokohau and Keauhou Bay launch ramp with just like over too many people <br />there at once and so I don’t dive into getting over my head like I did with the mantas I wanted <br />to open up a PIG ticket for Keauhou Bay to investigate just – I don’t know how to word it but <br />basically there’s not a lot of rules and regulations out of Keauhou Bay cause it is a launch ramp, <br />it’s not a harbor and so I think there’s a lot of things that should be done and investigated and <br />kind of reported because there’s not like really rules and regulations with Keauhou Bay and <br />Keauhou Bay is where we launch out of and I’m very familiar with it and in that certain time it’s <br />really crazy – it is an organized chaos – and it works but if the whole manta thing – if it’s getting <br />pushed back and it’s gonna get tabled with DOBOR there’s just no rules and regulations right <br />now for anything down at Keauhou and I don’t see it happening like this year at all so I want to <br />create something that we have a suggestion on items for like just like safety precautions and, <br />trying to deal with the population and basically tourists because they don’t read signs and they <br />don’t see where to park and it’s just really frustrating for business owners and myself. <br /> <br />SW: So, Natalie, I think the way that we can try to refine your \[unclear\] investigation is if you could <br />identify what is the problem that you’re thinking exists… <br /> <br />NR: Yeah… <br /> <br />SW: ….so that we can try to figure how your investigation – to try to solve that problem. <br /> <br />NR: OK. <br /> <br />SW: So right now you’re \[unclear\] as far as you’re aware there are no regulations regulating the <br />launch point for Keauhou Bay, is that correct? <br /> <br />NR: Correct. <br /> <br />SW: OK. So, what you want to do is try to figure out what entity would regulate Keauhou Bay launch <br />ramp. And then maybe contact that entity to see what if any regulations they may have – not <br />necessarily on Keauhou Bay launch point specifically but on those type of structures. <br /> <br />NR: OK. Cause I do know some, but I think Keauhou needs to be in a separate thing by itself <br />because it’s just a launch ramp and it’s not a harbor and there’s like lots of different things that <br />you could do with that. I just don’t know how to word it and I actually wanted to tackle all the <br />harbors and point out issues that are happening cause there’s – for example, there’s a sign that <br />is, you know, like when you park your truck with a boat, for example, there’s a small sign like <br />literally an 8 ½ x 11 sign not lit and there’s 4 of them that just said “Do Not Park Here – Boat <br />Parking” but, yet, everyone parks there because you can’t see it at night, so it’s just like things <br />14 <br /> <br /> <br />