2024_06_18 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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June 18, 2024 - GMAC Minutes LT: You know, last night I was putting out videos on social media and telling people to – when you talk – this is – get your point – your three main ideas, yes, I like this, I don’t like this, and then give the three reasons why and, you know… LT: Thank you. Aloha, thank you guys for waiting. We just had to clear some stuff up. I appreciate everyone waiting outside and making this important in their life. So right now, we’re just getting everybody back in online and on Zoom. We had to have everyone leave the room, so this is gonna take about a minute left. SW: So, Chair, we’re back in open session officially at 9:38 a.m. 4. COMMISSIONER REPORT BY DISTRICT: LT: OK. Aloha everyone, welcome back, we’re moving forward and we’re going right into our Commissioner Reports by District. We haven’t had one of these in a couple of months, so this is a chance for us to understand our local districts and what’s going on inside. So, we’re gonna start off with District – 1, Mr. Robert Duerr. RD: OK. District – 1, we met with Heather Kimball and we’ve talked about some of the issues of Hamakua – which, Waipio – Waipio’s another two years out, they’re still working on the road, ah, it’s to be remembered that, it was a lawsuit of users, fishers, surfers, and other groups that brought the County to opening the access, the other issue was Hakalau. Hakalau is a ten-year shut down because of a state mess-up of allowing lead to be put in the soil. The state is not taking any responsibility for closing a public park and in effect – which is affecting hundreds if not thousands of local families who cannot use that park. It was brought up about – is there a mitigation package for this or should they be a mitigation issue, there was no comment. Then we moved on to Pepeekeo – the purchase of the – right now there are some issues on some on access – the owner/developer is kinda doing a dance on what can and cannot be used, that seems to be problem – and then there’s also the issue of the County’s got a proposal of a 50- acre purchase in the public lands program but if there’s an issue of ash, pollution coming from the coal heap then it’s off the table, in any regard I think we should have the fishing group in Mr. Chong or Blake come forward into the future. The update on the dredging – the dredging is behind schedule. It’s totally affecting the ahi season this is a great fishing season – ahi is in very close – the large commercial guys are not able to get their boat out – American Dredging has been awarded the contract. Ed Underwood, who has been completely missing in action is head of DOBOR, was called to task by Representative Richard Onishi last week, for totally insulting the people of Hilo saying that they were the people who were looking to get the funds and didn’t get it from the legislature. In any regard, it’s supposed to start yesterday, it’s gonna close thth tomorrow from the 19 to July 12 for coral spawning so hardly likely this project starts sometime in late July, early August. That’s all I have. LT: Thank you, sir, for the update we look forward, thank you. Moving on to District – 2. PD: Nothing. LT: Ah, nothing to say from District – 2. Ah, moving on to District – 3. 8