2023_10_17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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?: Yeah… RD: ….Ala Wai, Honokohau, um, they fund. So now with Lahaina out there’s a funding shortfall. What Senator Inouye said was the problem now comes is they know there’s a shortfall not only with Lahaina Harbor funding into the boating fund but there’s a funding shortfall with tourism, so what can very likely happen is the Governor – the Governor last session had 200 million dollars – he evidently spent that so now what happens is the Governor in a shortfall can say “stop - all projects stop.” And so and so and not only does all agencies stop but we – we’re immediately gonna take 10% of your budget – so how that affects Wailoa River is then she’s saying, listen, this is a small project – we need to move this – this needs to move. And so essentially what we’re doing is essentially we’re – essentially then we pull in the data, we’re pulling in the data of one of our one of our members work for DOBOR and was involved in the project – he – so we’re pulling in the data of how much it costs, how many cubic yards, how long it took, you know, this kind of thing so that essentially what happens is the scope of work we’ll have in hand. The specifications of the work we’ll have in hand going to the Army Corps and then the sequence of events will have an end by the folks in Hilo who actually do construction and understand this. So we’ll come to DOBOR with a package. Now that package is not, you know, they don’t – nobody has to follow it but certainly, it’s a 3.2-million-dollar project. Will any, will we see any of it? Normally these take like 5 years. So one major problem here is – this is the major problem – and this is how – this is the sustainability issue – we have a groin which is a wall but the wall isn’t big enough to get an excavator out – so that an excavator can go out with a dump truck backed up to it that can easily just dig it out and stop the project – maybe it’s a $30,000 a year or fifty – it’s not a 2 point million dollar a year, so that’s, I think that basically that’s the short story, and that’s kinda how GMAC works with a private – with citizens group to like accomplish, you know… SW: Deputy Corporation Counsel Sylvia Wan – so in your presentation you were talking about we have the data and we’ve done the research. What, who is the “we” in that sentence, ‘because I know you had talked about I thought two different associations that you are a part of? RD: Yeah, we partner with HIFACT – HIFACT is on the landscape for Holomua 30x30… LT: OK, yeah… RD: ….which is DNR – they’re… SW: Can you give me the long version of that acronym? RD: Hawaiian Fishing and Cultural and Tradition…. For Cultural and Tradition. SW: Thank you. RD: And then the, um, person who worked for DOBOR for five years was Carl Shiogi is President of Hilo Trolls – background Hilo \[unclear\] so he has construction and fishing background so essentially then we’ll like pull together the data on – we have some of the data – of like how many cubic yards, how much money, how long… 29