Laserfiche WebLink
representative – State of Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission, East Hawaii <br />Rep to present State GMAC updates. <br /> <br />5. NEW BUSINESS: <br /> <br />a. Maurice Messina, Director, County of Hawaii Parks & Recreation to present, “2024 <br />Update: Archery Activities and Facilities within the County, Hakalau Beach Park, <br />Kolekole Beach Park and Laupahoehoe Ramp.” <br /> <br />LT: Welcome, Maurice Messina, Director of County of Hawaii Parks & Rec to present the <br />2024 update on Archery activities and facilities within the County, Hakalau Beach Park, <br />Kolekole Beach and Laupahoehoe Ramp. <br /> <br />MM: Good morning, everyone, Maurice Messina, Parks and Rec Director \[unclear\]. Aloha. <br />Thanks for letting me come in and have a chance to speak with you folks today. So, <br />starting off with our archery. Right now, we have two recognized archery facilities and <br />that is one at Waiakea Rec in Hilo and also in Malama Park. We do hold tournaments <br />like the recent one we had about 3 weeks ago at Edith Kanaka’ole in Hilo and the last <br />couple of days I’ve been speaking with our recreation directors across the island in <br />trying to assess the need for more archery services throughout the island and it seems <br />like they all want to bring more archery programs to each district and so what we need <br />to do is we need to set-up maybe, a meeting with all of us and just find out what’s this, <br />what’s the safest places in each district to do this. Now, for instance, I’m in Kona today <br />and I’m gonna be meeting with Victor McDaniel who’s our Recreation Director for Kona <br />and we’ve got a couple of different spots that he was talking about. He was even <br />considering Greenwell\] Park near Yano Hall has a spot because of the backdrop and the <br />berm in the back – he thinks that would be a good spot. So, and we’re open for <br />suggestions that GMAC or anybody else may have as well but this is a good time for us <br />to start speaking about this. We’re going into our next fiscal year and if there’s some <br />extra funding that we need to support these programs this is the right time to be <br />speaking about it. Are there any questions about that portion of this presentation? <br /> <br />LT: Leomana, District – 3. I just have one question about the funding. How much does it cost <br />to build one of those sites and run one of these archery ranges or archery parks? <br /> <br />MM: Well, it all depends, like if it’s one of the archery teams they usually have all that stuff <br />with them. At Waiakea Rec it’s, I mean, we just got – it’s just the targets really is all it is <br />and it’s an enclosed environment, so I don’t think it’s very expensive at all, I mean, what <br />are we talking about – I mean, I’m from Louisiana and the way we did it was hay bales <br />and, you know… <br /> <br />LT: Wood… <br /> <br />9 <br /> <br /> <br />