2013-05-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes - May 13, 2013 Council that – Melvine and some of the other folks are a part of – and so this map just shows some of the properties that are adjacent to Laupahoehoe NAR – and I’ve not done too much research into this – I’m waiting for some more guidance from the Advisory Council on what access it would like me to pursue – but I just wanted to show that. Again – red is tax map key – the blue in this is Kamehameha Schools’ land – the orange is State lease land – and then the yellow is forest reserve and natural area reserve. And this is an example of one of those projects. So, this is the road – I was pronouncing it Kapakuea – I think you guys pronounce it – how do you pronounce that, Tony? Chair Sylvester: Kapukuea. \[Kapuakea?\] J. Jokiel: Kapukuea… So, this is one of those roads that ends one property away from the forest reserve – which is in yellow on this – so, I’ve been working with Debbie Chang – to try to get public access to that forest reserve from the end of the road. It turns out that the property owner – her name is Perkowski \[sp?\] she subdivided her lot and there’s a county ordinance that requires her to provide public access across that lot to the forest reserve – ‘cause she subdivided into six parcels – six or more parcels – the problem is that it was never marked in the field and that’s what the agreement is – it’s really unclear – like you can’t, you know, you can’t tell where the access goes – so I went up there – you know we \[unclear\] around with me, Joey (Mello), and some of the county guys that approved her subdivision – and we didn’t see anything in the field to say this is in fact a public access and you know it calls for a fifty foot wide easement and you know it would need quite a bit of work to do it – but – which isn’t the problem – the problem is we don’t know where it is. Ah, we have the meets and bounds - so we have like the surveyor data that says this is where it is – so what we want to do – I’m asking for money for next year to pay for a marking of that – of the public access. So, this is that – this is again Kapukaea \[sp?\] – the forest reserve is on the upper left corner – there’s four properties that come together – blue line at the end of the road – the purple line is our track line – where we wandered around looking for the public access – we didn’t find anything. You know, it’s really unfortunate because – you know, I mean, it’s a good idea, I think, for Hawaii County to have that ordinance – and maybe all the counties do – but it’s a really good requirement – I think we’ve – we gotta – you know make sure that any public 5