2017-03-13 Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources Preservation Commission Minutes (2)

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Um so the main thing I guess I wanted to say . . a . . so far as to revise the PONC Suggestion form is to look at a memorandum of agreement (MOA) or a memorandum of understanding (MOU)where there is a non-purchase agreement. And that where . . . um . .that you know . . . a lotof these parcels are huge. And um I know from experience when I was researching we had a meeting with Ann Stewart from Washington and Bob Jacobson . . . um which leads to another issue is that reen, had nativetenant gardens, um there are youmight say family feuds going on under undivided interest but astill . And so a um I went in and I researched anall the bull rushes have been removed a which gave the area the ecosystem, water filtration and whatnot, but um the bull rushes were basically accused of being an evasive species. According to the map I have actually shows bulrushes form a 1852. And that in the Hawaiian dictionary it shows bull rushes have about 5 different Hawaiian names including Naku. And that these were used to make a not the favorite type of poi, but um also a fish weaving . . . um fish traps, a thatching for roofs, and um placement for the maps to sleep on, and so also as I know from my ancestors the Haie people, the navigator people. They did use them to bind them to make canoes, and so there is a story about the search to Kahiki, um to find totally devastated and removed. And so um I know that there is a meeting coming up on Wednesday I believe um in N But um I just wanted to put in a good word for the reeds and that I don’t know they might have to be re-establish from Ninole pond if they are going to grow back. But it’s just a . . . it’sjust terrible. Um let’ssee and I basically just want to point out a . . . . . . . Ok so just basically that with what’s going on um with HRS 172-11 the native tenant rights is to maybe make an Ad Hoc Committee or something . . . um maybe have public hearings of as far as input on this issue. And that because it was a federal undertaking, because there was federal money involved. Um that the County of Hawai‘i,this is also a project I worked under Emily Naeole is to get the Cultural Resource Commission going. So to make a certified local government, consultation is number one. So one thing that was discusses at the last CRC meeting was a 2 pages or something of a grant workshops available um under consultation, traditional cultural properties, places and whatnot. Um and so to be compliance and all that including federal undertaking, I believe it’s going to be necessary especially in the light of native tenants and living heirs under HRS 172-11. And I wanted to support Dwight here. Um and that Ineeded to justlet you know that to set up the entire County of Hawai‘i, which was the entire State, well I mean territoryback then. Congressional bonds ofmillions of dollars were given over to the territory to set up public utilitiescommission, roads,everything, parks, hospitals and that the collateral, the collateral that was used was the Hawaiian Kingdoms crown and government lands according to the revised laws of 1925, Volume II. And that also you need to be aware that I’ve taken international lawas well along with cultural resource management so that basically, currently, we’re looking at, um, 4