2024_09_17 Game Management Advisory Commission DRAFT Minutes

Home

broken, leaking 24 hours a day. That’s the reports just been coming out here and there. Obviously, they cannot make that huge report in one cause the County will get sued, but there’s a couple of developments that wanted to come into Keaukaha and build 48-unit, condos or what, you know, they wanted to make short-term rentals right there in front of Onekahakaha Beach Park and another one at the end by Richardson’s. This past County Council meeting and Department of Planning meeting last week denied them, ah, denied them their permits, a lot of it was having to do with the properties being below the high tide mark inland – and over ponds in Keaukaha is all ponds and lava tubes everywhere so just the infrastructure of putting in the waterline and the sewage line for another 48 units plus the street handling an average of two cars per unit was enough for the Planning Department to, um, I don’t know if they 100% cancelled the project but the project is not allowed to move forward thus far, and you know, that has to all do with the sewage plant. Shoots I was talking the \[unclear\]. I forget, kala mai, that was my update about the sewage plant and then this past weekend I noticed it’s actually your district but I went on a hunting trip to Wailoa, I counted with my own eyes 56 huge tilapia about this big – they’re really huge – they’re the bigger fish in the pond – I saw some awa’awa – the tilapia was bigger – I saw mullet – the tilapia was bigger – all the mullet were like woo woo size, you know, not too big, and it went from the river mouth where the water starts to get a little more salty – all the way back into the graffiti area by the Green Onion and all the way up to the homeless camp, you know, the homeless camp by Mitchville – so the tilapia actually go up to homeless camp and the people re-building the bridge right down the road – they tell me that the tilapia swim up there because the homeless population throws things in the river that causes the tilapia to grow in population in that little stretch right down here, so that was like a real interesting thing where I ran across some hunters with their slingshot bows with, you know, we’re out there for like 3 or 4 hours trying to catch the tilapia. We caught two, that was pretty cool but that was my big understanding of how the population of tilapia kind of wrecked all the fish inside there by taking the food, taking the resources and kind of dominating the area by – with aggression, that was, that was my main concern this past one and same thing the pigs is nothing different with the pigs, nothing different with the fish, and that was my report for District – 3, today, thank you. Moving forward, District – 4? BL: Brian, District – 4, the usual healthy pig population – we’re doing good – we don’t have to worry about running out of food any time soon. I haven’t heard anything about the dredging in Pohoiki starting lately. I got another report of the hatchet guy on the trail up Kaloli – just wandering down there with a hatchet and I did look up brandishing is illegal in the State of Hawaii to brandish a weapon which is just waving around threateningly so when he’s yelling and screaming at people waving a hatchet that’s considered brandishing and it’s against the law. He’s been reported but he’s still down there – I’m sure if he took a hatchet to a turtle there would be swarming with DOFAW officers and quick but since he’s just threatening elderly people that OK, so, and, ah, Barbara, were you able to load up those pictures I sent you yesterday? Did we lose Barbara again? 18