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TL: OK, Leomana, District—3, thank you so much,just cause of time we've got to move <br /> forward, thank you for that presentation—one last point is I think that we should be in <br /> contact and maybe have one of our commissioners go through the training not to be a <br /> feeder—just to understand the process but we can email and communicate on that. <br /> LL: Absolutely, I'd like to have you guys test it before it goes to the public and then point <br /> out any concerns or additional like topics that you want covered, so, thank you. <br /> LT: OK. Yeah. <br /> IKK: You mentioned it before you'd like to circulate this presentation—you can upload it into <br /> this Chat to everyone and also send it to Barbara Kossow. I'll send you a direct Chat, <br /> with her email address or she can circulate it to the Commissioners. <br /> LL: Yeah, I sent to Barbara, a fuller version, so that there's a little more definitions around <br /> cats and of the background information that I think people might find helpful. <br /> IKK: Yeah, and you can also send it through this Chat as well that way the members who are <br /> attending can review... OK, thank you... <br /> c. K. T. Cannon-Eger, President, Friends of Liliuokalani Gardens, a non-profit <br /> presenting, "the feral cat problem in Liliuokalani Gardens and Banyan <br /> Drive and the community." <br /> KTC: Thank you, members. I don't know really why I'm invited, I am not a cat biologist, I am <br /> not a game management person— nor a hunter, lately, although I have been a <br /> fisherman, yeah. I'm a volunteer gardener in Liliuokalani Gardens. Friends of Liliuokalani <br /> Gardens, which formed in 2012, we work under a memorandum of agreement, a <br /> memorandum of understanding—with the County of Hawaii Department of Parks and <br /> Recreation. We operate along three paths—we help with maintenance—that the <br /> County employees are, either don't have time or money or expertise to do, so we help, <br /> we manage approximately 1,000 volunteers over the course of a year's time. We also <br /> assist in raising funds for capital improvements within the park, which by the way is four <br /> gardens: [unclear] up at Kanukuokamanu Point overlooking the Wailoa River entry, Isles <br /> which also goes along the coastline, Moku Ola which was added in 1933 and Nihon <br /> Koen, so all four parks make up Liliuokalani Gardens. It's 24.67 acres, approximately 5 of <br /> that is the pond—Waihonu —that dates back four to six hundred years. Anything that <br /> happens on the land ends up in the ocean, you fishermen know that, so, what we do on <br /> the land has to be done with care because it affects our life. We also work on <br /> coordinating and co-sponsoring events that happen in the park— next week is Christmas <br /> Lights Monday and Tuesday. And we have the Banyan Drive Arts Stroll, Koinobori, <br /> Queen's birthday festival, floral design competition and then back to Christmas—those <br /> would be ones that our organization deals with. We have a legacy here in this twenty- <br /> 19 <br />