2023_11_21 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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4. COMMISSIONER REPORT BY DISTRICT: RD: District – 1, Pepeekeo is becoming an issue with the closure of public access and the developer/owner Correa Realty is seemingly not allowing the access and the County’s in the process of looking to gain a 38 acre parcel under PONC the Public, Open Space – there may be some issues with that of being down, down +flow water of the old coal/ash from the power plant when it was doing coal – but the big question is – irrespective of the purchase of the property – does the developer need to developer/owner need to fulfill the Planning Department’s rules that when the development was first allowed – Pepeekeo \[unclear\] was first allowed public access to shoreline was allowed with designated areas, that’s pretty much it for District – 1. AA: Yeah, so they already have public access so how is he… RD: He’s, he’s been – evidently he’s fenced off a public access and forcing people to go through gates and, that seems to be an ongoing – it seems to be an issue that needs to be looked into, upcoming and then bring in both sides – the public access side that says that it’s being closed and that the developers and find out from the developer what the issue is. AA: Abraham, District – 5. So, do we need to check with Building or something or? What’s your plan? RD: Well, basically \[unclear\] this is a very complicated – this gets deep diving – it’s the TMKs and County enforcement of essentially public access – so, I think it needs a little bit more looking into in the upcoming year. AA: OK. Ah, District – 2, vacant. District – 3, Leomana? LT: Aloha, District – 3, Leomana Turalde, first in my District - down in Keaukaha – County installed a lot of these \[unclear\] bike racks at County parks – did you guys see ‘em? To me that tells me that there 30 x 30 Plan is bringing more tourists into Keaukaha – it’s supposed to be \[unclear\] the walkways are done – they should have \[unclear\] on shoreline fishing – all in Keaukaha. Most of the tourism infrastructure is set because in the back of Keaukaha they want to make a walking park \[unclear\] landing, for tourism-friendly areas and that affects the fishing area only the fishermen go to right now. Pass Richardson into the back is strictly for fishing, holoholo, collecting stuff and it’s not really – the tourists don’t really go back in that area but, ah, these \[unclear\] let me know that the plan is supposed to be going ahead for these areas in the next couple of month it’ll be affected – I believe that foot traffic on our shorelines, getting back to fish shorelines so I reached out to the woman who has to do with the sewer pumps the one to talk about the raw sewage that goes into the sea that affects all of our fishing – right off the break wall all into Pahuaa \[sp?\] from Puhi Bay and I’m still waiting \[unclear\] email from her but she said she’d love to come and do a presentation to the GMAC Commission just to talk about the new sewer pump that they wanna collaborate with Hawaiian Homes with it because Hawaiian Homes is the owner of the property and I guess – I know how much involvement the County has to do with the sewer plan. But she would like to come and do a presentation from after the next two months, going to pig count – hogs a big issue, maybe because it’s a low water count this year, or the military was training but the last two months it’s below in District – 1 – was a low pig count. Maybe they’re migrating up into the forest cause of the water in the river 3