Comm No 0005.01 - GMAC Legislative HIstory - Sept 14 2018

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can't fly over the military base and the only place they can fly over is the critical habitat... and when it's clouds... I work up the mountain for twenty years. I'm up there every day. And when there's clouds, they got to fly below the cloud level. Which is only a... ;you know... hundred feet or so. Sometimes above this... this area. And... you know... it's thousands of flights a year, yuh. So it... okay. So they use the helicopters to eradicate ungulates from the critical habitat is scaring off adult palila from their nests, causing direct harm to the nestlings. The strong wind from the propeller wash, helicopter noise and the use of air horns are startling sheep out from the mamane trees. It's also causing the adult palila to abandon their nests, the young are left to die in the cold or fall to predation. And balance... a harmonious arrangement. And do not expedite the (inaudible) or our game animals. And a need for a game reserve. This is something Hawai'i has never had. They can take lands out of use, they swap a hundred acres to make the Saddle Road by pass for ten thousand acres of ranch land and twenty-five million dollars for a palila habitat. That's a mitigation area. They using only fourteen hundred of that ten thousand acres. If they can do that, why can't they give us ten thousand or twenty thousand acres to have a game reserve. And we can have a place to hunt. We can remove some of these problem areas with animals and we can still maintain our species that we have here. And then my conclusion is... I recommend that Hawai'i County and Council, State, the DLNR has an immediate cease and desist on all aerial eradication until such time that a full investigation and proper field studies may be conducted. Aloha. Look how beautiful Hilo... 1942. Okay. » Thank you very much... thank you very much, Mr. Silvester. Council members, the motion on the floor is to close file on Communication 731.1. Any discussion? Seeing none, Madame Clerk, on the motion to close file. » Mr. Blas. » Aye. » Ms. Ford. » Aye. » Mr. Hoffmann. » Aye. » Mr. Ikeda. » Aye. » Mr. Onishi. » Excused. » Mr. Pilago. » Mr. Pilago, is that an aye? » Aye. » Ms. Smart. » Aye. » Mr. Yoshimoto. » Aye. » Chair Yagong. » Aye. » Chair Yagong, you have eight ayes. » Thank you. Motion passes. Council member Pilago, Bill 260, please. » Chair person Yagong, motion to approve Bill 260. 6