2023_04_18 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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quicker. It’s probably gonna, yes, it’s probably gonna be out of our hands but hey, whatever, maybe we can help out some way somehow. And just the timeframe – like how much longer is this gonna take because I know the community down there is really suffering. BR: Yeah, given where we’re at – so we are trying to work our approval right to look at a project that’s great than 8 million dollars so, once we get that, and I’m anticipating, worst case scenario that would take, we’d probably get that in six month or so, six to eight months Hopefully sooner and then, you know, we’d have to, it’s a bit uncharted territory – I haven’t done this and Nani may have thoughts but then we do have to jump into official design phase and then in construction phase so you’re still not really gonna see any sort of construction in real time, for another four or five years depending, but what can you do – I think just like reaching out and staying connected but there are instances where we’re moving along and we need letters of support and just like \[unclear\] that the local partners need and they need it now and just helping apply pressure also working similarly to the 7001 process - the more you’re working with your local constituents – the more – it just hammers the message home from multiple angles and that’s always powerful. AA: OK. So I guess in the future, now we have contact and we have open communication with each other, we met – the Commission has met you and you have met the Commission – so you have Barbara’s email – she’s our Commission secretary, if you need any assistance in any way like getting letters or anything just please don’t hesitate to email her and so we can get that process going as quickly as we can on our side because our meetings is only once a month and if you need something like right now, guess what, it ain’t gonna happen, cause it needs to be on our agenda and stuff like that. So as much advanced notice as you can give the Commission will be greatly appreciated. BR: OK. I will put a link \[unclear\] so we’re developing this report right now. It’s a short report but, um, to defend the need to go above 8 million dollars and it represents a significant of this so if there’s any good resources out there that you could point me to – we already have some stuff on Maui County but resources that help paint the picture of why this Laupahoehoe is unique – why it’s important to the community, how it serves various functions, community or functions, recreation, why it’s necessary and important resource for the community – all that is helpful as we begin to present to our agency why we need to do this repair and quickly. AA: Right. Abraham, District – 5, right, so the number one main reason, and I’m pretty sure you know it – I’ll just make it public – that’s the only boat ramp from Kawaihae all the way to Hilo so – you know, that’s a pretty obvious main reason right there – just on that alone, you know… BR: Definitely… AA: …. the coastline is all cliff – that’s the only way that the boaters can go down, fishermen can go down and recreation, that’s a County park right there, so, even that shoreline right there for swimming and stuff it’s like kinda hard so that boat ramp is sacred to Pohoiki when it was in its glory. You know everybody used to just swim in the boat ramp and right now it’s not even – I mean, it’s not safe for the kids to swim in a boat ramp, but, you know, if you ain’t gonna have somebody there to regulate it there 24/7 the kids still gonna swim in the boat ramp, right, so… Thanks… BR: Right… 14