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Ms. Nicholson asked the commissioners to review the communications and commented that it would <br />be more appropriate to have Ms. Hecht present and a representative from Parks & Recreation (P&R) <br />before they discuss this item. Mr. Brilhante noted that Mr. Clayton Honma, Director of P&R was <br />present to address questions and concerns. <br /> <br />Ms. Matsumura asked if the Maintenance Fund actually comes under the jurisdiction of this <br />Commission. Ms. Nicholson replied that is something that needs to be clarified. Mr. Van Bergen <br />replied no. <br /> <br />Mr. Hirakami noted that it might be good to take it question by question and have Mr. Honma answer <br />any items pertaining to P&R. <br /> <br />Mr. Hirakami noted that these questions were drafted by Commissioner Debbie Hecht and the <br />responses were done by Corporation Counsel Bill Brilhante. <br /> <br />Mr. Hirakami read question #1: -author of the Maintenance Fund charter amendment, the <br />intent of publicizing the fund once per year and asking for applications was to encourage and <br />empower community groups to maintain and care for these properties. Although publicity would only <br />be once per year, the intention was that community groups could apply any time during the year and <br />they could also apply year after year. Can you confirm that this fund is being used as it was <br /> <br /> <br />Mr. Brilhante replied that a majority of the monies although sitting in the fund have been accounted for <br />this year so no funds are available for stewardship grants and therefore no publication was done. <br /> <br />Mr. Honma added that there are lots of cultural sites on these properties and an inventory of these sites <br />will need to be done. They plan to hire professional services to do this and the cost for these studies <br />will vary and they expect to fully use the fund monies initially there to cover this. <br /> <br />Ms. Nicholson asked Mr. Honma to address the issue raised by Ms. Harden regarding what is an <br />archaeological plan and how is it different from an archaeological survey or site plan. Mr. Honma <br />replied that it is very general <br />currently on those lands. Mr. Van Bergen added that an <br />archaeological survey is when they go out to survey the properti <br /> We <br />recently did a survey for Kw and it cost 52,000.00 so you can see how fast the fund monies could be <br />used. <br /> <br />Mr. Hirakami asked Mr. Van Bergen where did the funds come from to pay for archaeological studies <br />before the Maintenance Fund was created. Mr. Van Bergen replied that we were able to access some <br />plan which was done about four years ago and since the Kw <br /> <br /> <br />Ms. Byrne Baber replied that in regards to Kaiholena, Mr. Tom Dye has done an extensive plan there <br />and the Kohala community has many partnerships. Community involvement is really important and <br />she hopes that not all the monies are going to only experts since the local community really wants to be <br />involved also. <br /> <br />- 3 - <br /> <br />