2023_03_21 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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that used to exist in almost all of our districts on the Big Island, but now I think it’s only in two of our districts and one of them is District – 2. And that goes all the way up to Mauna Kea if I’m not mistaken. A couple of cool small animals on the Island that we have is very rare is a Happy Faced Spider – it’s a native Hawaiian spider – and these spiders are also getting killed by all the invasive birds, so if you guys didn’t’ know about the Happy Faced spider please go check it out – all these animals are going extinct, even the snails. So that is basically it for my, oh, OK, and then another one because all of us have shorelines in our District – the Sea Level Rise Bill was just put on hold and the Sea Level Rise bill is about retreat management. If you have any ocean front properties on how to properly retreat your property, your ownership or something – I don’t really know what it is but I just wanted to bring it out because we all have shorelines and the Sea Level Rise Bill Management Retreat and that’s it – Mahalo. SW: Leomana do you have a bill number for the Sea Level Rise Bill that you’re talking about? LT: No, I, sorry, I actually don’t – I just was watching the news, you know, I just type in like Big Island News and then I watch all the Big Island News and so they just called it the Sea Level Rise Bill and it was to do with the houses on the North Shore of Oahu and the pollution that their bags were causing and how – the State was trying to fine them – and so, I guess, the Sea Level Rise Bill was to help these people not get fined and help them move their property away from the rising tides. SW: Ah, and one other thing Leomana, you were talking about the pigeons and mass feeding of animals, do you want to try to look into creating a PIG for that particular issue? LT: No, I just wanted to bring that up because I’m, you know, I travel around Hilo and I know all these old guys, I known them my whole life and, you know, Uncle you cannot do this, but I don’t know what to do about it. It’s, I just want to bring it up so that it’s noted. I was looking on the DLNR website for – what is the actual law stating, you know, like what is the HRS that says we cannot feed wild animals? I don’t know it by heart and I don’t have it down anywhere so I couldn’t find it for the last 2 days, so if you guys know where… SW: \[Unclear\] questions, you could ask me that question as \[unclear\]… LT: OK. SW: Umm, also, just off the top of my head I don’t think there’s any particular statute – there’s no State statute against mass feeding of animals but that type of action – restriction – would be more under the County’s purview so you would be looking more at County ordinances and… LT: OK. SW: And as far as I remember the ordinances regarding animals is generally in Chapter 4 of the Hawaii County Code. So if – that’s why I was asking if you wanted to create a PIG for that particular issue because I do know that that is a concern not of just GMAC but of Hawaii County. 6