GMAC Minutes 12.17.24 Final draft

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are some of the big challenges we face and so just to give you guys kind of like point study go to the next one. So this is Pepeekeo Mill side, you can see the mill right there on the right side, in 1990 and this map was from Uncle LeRoy Mattos who's since passed but you can see all the names that he wrote on the right side and this is the access that he explained, back when it was sugar the ohanas, for better or worse, they weren't great land stewards in a lot of sense but they did provide access to the community. You could go where you need to, and I love hearing the stories of the old timers how they would go down and they would really feed themselves and their families off of these places. And so this is 1990, and so if you go to the next one—this was in 2004— if you can scroll up—this was in 2004, post development—this was promised to the community in terms of access and there was an additional agreement that they gave us for vehicular access along the shoreline but this was what the access was supposed to be and so you see all those orange spots is ways to get down to the shoreline, the orange is vehicular, you're supposed to be able to drive down to the shoreline and then walk along the shoreline—that's the blue—the blue is pedestrian—and so that was what was promised in a map we have the document, of course, all of it is temporary and revocable. The community at the time maybe didn't fully understand what they were getting into, but this was what it was supposed to be. If you go to the next slide—you've got to memorize that with your mind—or think back and forth—this is—in 2011—so 7 years after the subdivision was granted—approval —the County finally accepted the access easements. Seven years—there was already houses there—the roads were already put in and this is what they accepted. Quite different from what was promised to the community and, it's a hodge podge of maintenance, some of it they said the private property owners had to maintain, some of it they said, the County was going to maintain even though they don't have a department to do maintenance for those kind of things—and so, if you go down to the next one—this is—well this is 2021 connected to the old slide—so it's even worse now but—this is like a current state of what you can actually get to. BM: The green is—sorry—that's like an old -the TMK that I overlaid on top of it, yes, so the green has nothing to do with access but it's—there's no way you can access that unless you get in, unless you can climb a rope or you trespass over private property and so this is just, I think, a good example of what had happened, not just at Pepeekeo, right, cause it's Pepeekeo shoreline or Makana shoreline but from Hilo out to Kohala and even all around the Island— I'm hearing it from all the fishing guys that the accesses are getting smaller and smaller and less and less and less and so I don't want to be one to complain cause that's not my style, I try to find solutions so go to the next slide—this is kind of what I'm proposing and what we're going to be working on a bit I think with our coordinator position. So, number one is a dedicated County personnel member that's dedicated to public access. Somebody that does not get caught up with the other County responsibilities and is fully dedicated to helping us preserve those accesses and looking at it in a wholistic way— I hear a lot of times our hunters is like, no, eh, they just put up a house there, the guy fenced it—that was our trail to run up mauka to some of our hunting areas. The County looks at it and the house is right in the middle of the trail 7