2025-06-17 GMAC Minutes Final Draft

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RD: So biological stewardship is coming before the meeting date for the final recommended draft of 2045. Introduction collaborative starts Tuesday July 15, and then it goes,Tuesday July 29, 1 think at the very least, we need to let the county council committee, the county council policy planning committee land use, and economic development. To understand we have some issues. We may not have the full handle of what the answers are, by the time... We certainly have an interest as stakeholders we have an interest... To that point former chair Abraham Antonio, he testified at the last public hearing, letting them know that this commission GMAC and hunters and fishers, and gathers did have an interest and input into this plan. CF: Mr. Chair, this is Chuck Flaherty, may I make a point here? LT: Can he make a point? SW: That's up to you. LT: Oh Yeah CF: Okay, Yeah, the video has been disabled by the host, but I'm here. So, I would encourage you all to look at the presentation I've provided to the commission. Starting on the bottom of page 6 policies. Look at policies 104 through 421, because they directly, for instances, 404 is the County of Hawaii shall establish public access to and along the shoreline,to significant historic sites, public transit along the top of the cliffs, streams and other natural mauka forest, mauka trails facilities, to access sites for gathering, hunting and other recreational purposes, in accords with Hawaii County Code Chapter 34, Chapter 34, just so you all know, directly relates to public access. In addition, it also talks if you look at 13 Seeks Public private partnership to manage and maintain public access to the shoreline, public trails, hunting areas,scenic places and vistas and significant historic sites, buildings sites and objects of public interest. That goes to the situation with Peppeekeo, that commission Duerr has referred to if that particular partnership had been encouraged perhaps that outcome would not have been realized. So, putting that actually, putting that sort of language into the General Plan and those as policies and looking at page 8 at the top there is an action 4.56 which a very important one that I'm hoping the County Council will adopt, which is to establish County of Hawaii public access and trail program with sufficient staff and resources. The staff will be required to consult and consider recommendation in this program and all permit reviews. This, if this program were to be implemented, you all probable would be working directly, for the charter reason for your existence, the program, and again this language that's contain the presentation that I gave to the commission, is from the draft General Plan 2019 that for some reason was not carried forth into the General Plan 2045. The County Council is already looking into the language, because the Na Ala Hele advisory commission council had asked that the Leeward Planning Commission adopt this language and the Leeward Planning commission did is recommending this language so I'm strongly encouraging you all since it is already 21