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June 18, 2024 - GMAC Minutes
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<br />LT: Right now in District – 3, \[unclear\] the sewer plant down in Keaukaha – Keaukaha is our only
<br />fishing village in Hilo and, and Suisan is out but according to the Mayor from a statement he
<br />made last week that our sewage treatment plant is one major earthquake away from dumping
<br />out two-million gallons right in to Keaukaha, right into our only fishing village on the East side
<br />of Hawaii. Um, a major earthquake is a 4.0 and we get that almost every day in Puna, a single
<br />one, so that’s how we treat our fishing village and the reef fish and the ahi – you cannot, we
<br />cannot get to that right now. Another one is from – since they’re renovating the back of King’s
<br />Landing and they have their Maha project going on a lot of the hogs from Keaukaha are moving
<br />towards Panaewa in to the zoo so this past month I did an eye count of driving from Puumaile
<br />all the way around to the airport and I counted 57 hogs or feral pigs right on the side of the
<br />road and even driving into the airport right now you’ll see all the litters coming out, yeah, it’s
<br />me and my kids stop all the time – but the fencing is, you know, it’s driving all of the animals
<br />back into town, back onto Laukapu Street, back to Aloha gas station ‘cause that’s the only way
<br />they can run back into the military area, I guess we spoke about Suisan and that’s it for me,
<br />District – 3, thank you. Moving on to District – 4, Mr. Brian Ley.
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<br />BL: Brian Ley, District – 4. Still got pigs. Still no sign of \[unclear\] getting moving or starting any time
<br />soon even though it’s been years, and they keep dangling that carrot in front of us. Ah, one
<br />other issue is Mauna Kea, I think, involves everybody – so I’m \[unclear\] twice, the waters – one
<br />broken water is completely broken, and the vast majority of the bird waters were so filled with
<br />rocks that the birds can’t get any moisture out of it. I re-sent and told them about it – 3 weeks
<br />later I was back up there – still broken – this time I was checking every water – I think I found 3
<br />that were working properly, I cleared out a bunch, got most of them working except one – saw
<br />three different state trucks driving around there so I don’t know why they can’t stop and check
<br />these waters while they’re up there, I have no idea who’s responsible for these things. I was
<br />hoping the DLNR guy that said he was gonna be here was gonna be here today to find out
<br />who’s responsible for these things cause we’ve got, we’ve got chicks on the ground, we’ve got
<br />a dry season, this is critical – the one water that was working the first time I looked up there
<br />had 8 hens and about 25 chicks around this one water, so, these are crucial and the fact that
<br />the DLNR is not maintaining these things like they’re supposed to is just sad, especially with the
<br />bird season and the dry season and everything, but that’s it for my report, thank you.
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<br />LT: We expect a super dry year. Thank you for that information. Moving on to District – 8, Miss
<br />Cortney Okamura.
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<br />CO: Hey, everyone. Quick announcement that tomorrow there’s gonna be a West Hawaii Pakuikui
<br />scoping meeting put on by the Division of Aquatic Resources, so that’s gonna be available via
<br />Zoom and also at the West Hawaii Civic Center, I did forward the link and information on to
<br />Barbara, ahead of the meeting, so if you’re interested, Barbara can forward you the link to Join,
<br />so the basic quick description is that the take of the species is currently prohibited in West
<br />Hawaii under a 2-year moratorium that’s apt to expire in December of this year. They’re still
<br />early in the rule making process and no new rules have been decided so far but, if you have
<br />comments or questions this would be the place to attend. Secondly, I believe we had a brief
<br />discussion at the last meeting about invitation from Chair Heather Kimball to send a
<br />representative of GMAC over to the County Council meeting – her request is that we talk about
<br />the types of reports and content of reports that GMAC is providing to the County Council, and
<br />so, after discussing with Commissioner Duerr we thought we would go ahead and make a
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