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LT: \[clear\] <br /> <br />SW: No, it’s up to you Chair. If you think it’s an appropriate question you can decide to take the floor <br />if there’s no one else… <br /> <br />LT: OK. I’m \[unclear\]. Um, I just had one question, um, going back to the pig traps – we just wanted <br />to know what is the average cost of the trap – maybe you found that out, what funding exists <br />for traps or, or aid right now? How many traps do you expect to get or expect to buy, um, and <br />how do individuals or groups in these areas apply for these traps. <br /> <br />AK: Those are great questions, the traps on the market go for $800-$900 dollars. So they’re <br />definitely not cheap – they cost a pretty penny – we would want to do a very comprehensive <br />marketing campaign to make a number of traps available but there has to be some kind of <br />kuleana attached to it where it’s not just your personal trap, to trap the pigs in your yard, like <br />this needs to be, I think, something that is shared amongst a neighborhood and a community. <br />The total budget for every single point of this Plan is $125,000 and so Research & Development <br />is going to help us make a determination on how much should be spent on each of these <br />different points, I, you know, as a council member also have contingency money available and <br />would be willing to help kind of this go a little bit further and provide some funding for <br />additional traps – folks can encourage their council members to do the same – I’d also like to <br />see if there’s discretionary funding either through local foundations. I think it’s a little bit harder <br />for the state’s unlock some money but the whole idea is to try to get something off the ground. I <br />hope I answered all your questions. <br /> <br />BL: Brian, District – 4. I floated ideas several years ago during a campaign that we should in <br />corporate the trade schools – the welding classes in the schools and get the students involved to <br />cut down the cost and then, you know, community pride and stuff like that and we could <br />probably get a lot of local people to donate the materials for the schools for practice welding. <br /> <br />AK: I like that idea of working with our student welders – to be able help build some of the traps. <br />Thank you. <br /> <br />LT: Sorry, I was just thinking about who’s the shop teachers at Keaau High School ‘cause I took shop <br />and auto mechanics welding over there Jun Pagala is the teacher’s name. But we did stuff like <br />that, you know, when Keaau first came up in 2002 and 2003 – most of the auto shops – the <br />fence on the outside the buildings where all students build – me and my friends stayed after <br />school and he just taught us how to do that, so… That’s kinda like an after-school program for <br />free. <br /> <br />AK: I mean it, you know, again, this is not my contract to execute. I kind of paint the vision and other <br />folks run with it but I could encourage the – like community building of these traps at school <br />sites/facilities where welding is possible and there could be community building – I think that’s a <br />great idea. <br /> <br />RD: Now, ah, Bob, District – 1. Ashley, in normal states… <br /> <br />AK: Are we not normal here? <br />8 <br /> <br /> <br />