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RD: Hi, District – 1. As a Commissioner on my own – I submitted letters to the General Plan, <br />stating that there was no inclusion for the harvesting of wild fish and game and <br />providing access for those activities as well as gathering cultural practitioners. It was, it <br />was a short letter in the time had come up so I, I put it in as a District – 1 Commissioner. <br />I did the same thing with Kahuku. Kahuku National Park is seeking public input on their <br />new mauka and makai national park which is – I’m not sure – 50,000 but maybe as much <br />as 100,000 un – and in that testimony I just said that to provide access for camping and <br />to consider hunters, fishers, and other gatherers and cultural practitioners. Wailoa <br />dredging – Wailoa River dredging is just about done, evidently they went over budget <br />but they’re doing some kokua, finish up – they should be done by Thanksgiving. The <br />state also is, is doing ancillary projects they’ve been delayed on so,I would say that <br />Senator Lorraine Inouye is a major factor for pushing this through and the other thing <br />too is that as a, as a Commissioner I saw that the DOFAW was doing a game bird crop <br />collection and included that as an item that’s on our website so that if people check our <br />website they may be able to find the game bird crop collection, which seemingly would <br />be a valuable pool for game birds. That’s all I have. <br /> <br />LT: Thank you District – 1. Did you by any chance see that the dredging company flipped <br />their boat. You saw that? <br /> <br />RD: Ah, yeah, I did. I actually had a report of that, you know, the fellow who was on site, <br />they flipped it, they recovered it. They, they – those guys were not on site at the time, I <br />guess it was the weekend. They flipped it, recovered it, and then they brought in <br />another boat from Oahu. <br /> <br />LT: Yeah, cause I was driving past and I saw the boat – it was connected to the dredging <br />boat upside down and only the, the manu \[sp?\] was sticking out the, ah, yeah, the whole <br />wall – what about the EIS statement on that thing? Whether they flipped the boat and <br />dredged it, um, and then even for the went over budget – I was at the meeting last <br />month – was it last month? And they said they’re – they went over budget but they’re <br />starting an annual reoccurring dredging fund – I don’t know if you heard anything about <br />that? <br /> <br />RD: No, Chair, that’s a very good thing to follow up on. And then also follow-up on – well <br />with the total cost of this project and then what was the cost per cubic yard taken out, <br />and then, um, Mike Tokunaga of Tokunaga Fishing Store also was mentioning that the <br />debris, you know, a lot of the debris from the storms are, are piling up. He’s concerned <br />that, that was his finds its way back into the water and then silting. So, he was asking, <br />he’s got a call into Parks and Rec to try to take out the bagasse, and the debris on the <br />shore to try to prevent that. <br /> <br />LT: OK. That’s all for District – 1. Thank you very much, sir. Ah, District – 2, Mr. \[unclear\]. <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />