|
3. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS: None
<br />
<br />4. COMMISSIONER REPORT BY DISTRICT:
<br />
<br />AA: OK. Commissioner Report by District – District – 1, Robert Duerr?
<br />
<br />RD: Ah, District – 1, the funding has been approved for the Wailoa River Improvements, ah, a
<br />meeting will happen with the stakeholders, um, Laupahoehoe – a project has been cancelled by
<br />Mayor, and by the County Council Chair, Heather Kimball due to funds needing to be switched
<br />to the sewage and that’s about all I have. There’s a meeting, ah, Laupahoehoe community
<br />th
<br />meeting on the 20 of this month where Maurice Mesina will be making a presentation, um,
<br />side by side with that – there’s a fellow who lives in Laupahoehoe who is a marine engineer who
<br />has agreed to meet on site – to kind of go over details of the project – he’s interested in
<br />volunteering some services to or at least give a preliminary on it – but that meeting was
<br />scheduled for an on-site visit but was cancelled. But I was looking to have GMAC meeting with
<br />him and Bobby Gonzalez who is a community advocate and knowledgeable about the project,
<br />um, Heather Kimball set the meeting up but could not attend and then she will also be invited.
<br />
<br />AA: OK. Thanks. District – 2, vacant. District – 3 is still not in yet.
<br />
<br />SW: No.
<br />
<br />AA: Ah, District – 4, is absent. District 5 is me. Ah, pigs still in that area, still trapping, um, get, there’s
<br />one guy he’s – in one month he’s up to 60 pigs in just one month in Hawaiian Acres and I’m up
<br />to like 40 so I’m like right behind him, um, just got reached out yesterday in front of the bird
<br />sanctuary up in Volcano so I got a meeting with them later on this week \[unclear\] storm
<br />pending, um, other than that one of the areas – one of the public hunting areas – I got word that
<br />they gonna fence it off because it’s an easy fencing project but it’s public land and it’s outside of
<br />the NARS area so I’m gonna be looking into that and then bringing that up the Commission later
<br />on in the future. Um, District – 6, Austin’s absent. District – 7, Natalie?
<br />
<br />NR: Aloha and good morning, um, kinda good news – Governor Josh Green released his veto intent
<br />and it was on the HB 1090 – which is the commercial fishing and recreation which was a big deal
<br />with like mantas so he vetoed that or he’s planning on vetoing it – so that’s really good news, so
<br />all the small business owners on our Island – he sees that there’s a need to more work for
<br />DOBOR and DLNR to work together and pretty much come to an agreement hopefully in
<br />working with the small business owners, um, there’s the Ohana Shoreline Fishing Tournament
<br />next month, August 20, um, at Honokaa Gym, so that would be really fun and exciting it’s a
<br />whole family event if you guys like to attend. That’s all that’s going on in my area.
<br />
<br />AA: Thank you, Natalie. Cortney?
<br />
<br />CO: Aloha and good morning everyone, so the bill that was – we were hoping to have passed
<br />regarding Kahaluu Bay and improvements to the beach park there did not pass, however, I was
<br />informed that, um, Arizona State University who has a large coral project here on the Island is
<br />going to partner and help out and, ah, so that’s really good news and also the Army Corps of
<br />Engineering is supposed to help as well, so, I will keep you guys posted as I hear more on that.
<br />3
<br />
<br />
<br />
|