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c. GMAC 2025 First Quarter Report on its activities,Chair Turalde. <br /> LT: Okay, thank you for that Mana'o on the educational and marketing materials Moving <br /> forward to Agenda Item 6c GMAC 2025 1st Quarter report on its activities Ahh,this special <br /> meeting that we held for the General Plan, I got to sit down and talk with councilman <br /> Inaba on our quarter report, and he was really excited. Cause he hasn't seen that in <br /> GMAC until we started to do that again, so he was, so one of the points he brought up <br /> was thank you so much for the quarter report you know if we can do it like this, I'm kind <br /> of talking with him right now, how to set it up and he gets it, the information he wants <br /> right at the top. Writing it up, so I'm trying to get that outlined and square away with him <br /> and I'll probably see them in the next two(2)days,and come back in next months meeting <br /> being with that cleared up. <br /> d. Report on the site visit with NABS, DOFAW,GMAC,and hunters of the proposed fencing of <br /> Puumakaala Forest from 800 acres to 400 acres,Chair Turalde. <br /> LT: Moving forward from Agenda Item #6c to Agenda Item #6d Report on the Site visits with <br /> NARS and DOFAW, GMAC and Hunters of the proposed fencing of Pu'u Maka'ala forest <br /> from 800 to 400 acres. This was a huaka'I excursion that we took myself, Mr. Taysen <br /> Wong-Chong, and representing the public we had one of our professional pig hunters and <br /> community hunters Mr. Abraham Antonio and we went up there and spoke to the head <br /> of NARS and Nick Augustas, you guys know NARS Nick Augustas he is the head of NARS <br /> up there at Pu'u Maka'ala. They proposed fencing another 800 acres to add to the NARS <br /> area they got from the prison. A lot of the land designation, doesn't allow hunters to <br /> access the area because the old property belongs to the prison and it's under some weird <br /> jurisdiction where we cannot travel with weapons across the prison road to get to our <br /> hunting area. That is one of our concerns, of how can we get hunters up here when the <br /> hunters cannot travel with any weapons? Because the roads go through the prison <br /> grounds. From our conversation we didn't get in official writing yet, but the ask was that <br /> they wanted 800 acres to fence. We went up there we had our conversation we got them <br /> to communicate to us what about 400, what about cutting the fencing area down by half <br /> these are the kind of deals that GMAC in my personal opinion needs to be there to talk to <br /> the heads of these other organizations. We can kind of discuss and kind of train and <br /> teach each other, in real time and go from fencing 800 and to 400 acres. You know here <br /> in our meetings and our letters, that we do, sure we can write letters and hope that <br /> people, kind of take our opinion, but to me that was a direct action talking to Nick up <br /> there in the forest and say eh we no like your 800 acres idea, give us a different idea, and <br /> they go what about 400, let's work with 400 we can do that. So, to me if.. all of my time <br /> spent in GMAC, that's the kind of things that we can personally accomplish, because the <br /> Palila stuff is going take a life time, right Palila is going take a life time and small things <br /> like small wins like this, means a lot to the individuals who come in here that care about <br /> fencing off specific areas. So, I just wanted to bring that to mind, I wasn't aware of this <br /> area, when I came into the commission, but this was an important thing to our community <br /> our hunters and past commission members that — I still push whatever they had on the <br /> 29 <br />