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partnership on this piece and that's the enforcement and monitoring of the feeding <br /> stations, the dumping of cats—there's gonna be recommended signage that we put out <br /> —we may want to consider trail cams in some of these places, and really enforcing that <br /> because what we see is there hasn't been a lot of pathways for owners that have free <br /> roaming cats or pet cats that they can no longer take care of. The County doesn't accept <br /> in their shelters—for the most part— healthy cats, right?The Humane Society does and <br /> some of the rescues do but often people are put on a waiting list and people have bigger <br /> problems and so sometimes they don't want to deal with that and then the cats end up <br /> they're like oh, I saw a bunch of cats down at Liliuokalani or on Banyan Drive, I'm just <br /> gonna take mine there because they don't necessarily feel like they have other options. <br /> And then we want to ensure the continued access to sterilization services, medical care <br /> and resources for maintaining healthy colonies. We need on this Island a place for <br /> people to bring community cats on a schedule— like right now it's a very competitive <br /> appointment based service, and that just doesn't work for community cats because <br /> you're trapping them and you never know when you're going to trap them —we really <br /> need something where on a couple days a week people can trap in their colonies and <br /> bring the cats in without an appointment. It's sort of a drop off— but maybe it's <br /> Monday, Wednesday and Friday—and we offer low cost or free spay/neuter on a drop- <br /> in basis. Like I mentioned, we had a robust concept for the communication plan—we <br /> would want to work directly with County employees so that we're all speaking the same <br /> thing, DLNR, local hotels and their management, local businesses, the fears [?], the local <br /> animal welfare organizations—so that everyone is on the same page and that's the only <br /> way a project like this is going to work. We can't implement a project like this if we're <br /> gonna have another entity citing people or telling them they can or can't do this. We <br /> need to all work together to establish what is OK and what isn't and come to an <br /> agreement on that and then work on the same language across all of the entities for <br /> enforcement, and that's really ensuring that works this humane approach while <br /> protecting the County's wildlife and tourism —wildlife conservation and tourism goals, <br /> how you can help really adopt and support and enforce the best practices in T& R. <br /> Happy to walk anyone who's interested in what we're thinking and then considering <br /> other parameters that people may raise, here so that we can create sustainable <br /> community cat management plans that's enforceable. Help us identify and maintain <br /> safe feeding locations. So, I have one location approved on land that the Naniloa has <br /> available for one of my stations, but I need to identify four more in that corridor that we <br /> can work on and to support those feeding stations and sterilization efforts we're gonna <br /> need some funding for this project. Lauren and I have scoped out a preliminary budget <br /> — happy to talk to anyone on what that looks like—and then be an advocate once this <br /> rolls out. If you see something, say something. Public monitor and report issues to <br /> ensure the program's success—the welfare of the cats and the good of the community. <br /> OK. So that was a lot. And I talked very fast, but I anticipate there are questions about <br /> this, I know this is a somewhat contentious issue here in Hawaii, so I'd love to have <br /> some time to hear from all of you. If anything I said didn't make sense, please ask. <br /> 15 <br />