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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – May 14, 2019 <br /> <br /> <br />STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS: <br /> <br />BKK: Is there anybody in the public that’s wishing to testify at this time? <br /> <br />PRESENTATION: <br /> <br />Wao Kele o Puna – Palikapu Dedman <br /> <br />BKK: The Chair recognizes Teresa Nakama for the introduction of Mr. Palikapu <br />Dedman. <br /> <br />TN: Aloha and good evening – members of the Committee and members of the <br />public – I would like to introduce our first guest speaker – Palikapu Dedman of <br />Pele Defense Fund. Mahalo for being here Palikapu. <br /> <br />PD: Palikapu Dedman, Pele Defense Fund – I like pick up where I think Terri left <br />off – if people were uneasy – had any problems – I saw the video – there was <br />emotions on some peoples’ faces while she’s talking so if you got anything <br />that you want to talk about that disturb you I’m here. So no comment to what <br />she was saying representing Pele Defense Fund the last meeting? Any <br />comments? <br /> <br />TN: I think she did a wonderful job – it gave me insight of what you folks have <br />done over the years and mahalo, Terri, for doing what you did and if anyone <br />else had questioned her about... <br /> <br />PD: That little history about how this all was created... <br /> <br />TN: I didn’t quite get that – could you give us a brief overview? <br /> <br />PD: It was all started with Billy’s time during campaign time – Billy needed the <br />votes - Dominic Yagong was doing the whole campaigning against Billy – we <br />started to organize the hunters – hunters came to see us on support – on <br />some of the issues that DLNR was gonna be doing with forestry and hunting, <br />eradication – so we all got together and Yagong came as a Councilman to <br />organize with the hunters the language to create this Game Management <br />Plan. That was all started away from Billy but as Billy started to need more <br />votes toward the end – he started to take over the hunting commission. I’m <br />not wishing nobody bad luck but that didn’t work out so well for everybody – <br />especially the fish and game – because you folks sitting in a position after <br />how many years of its creation and I see a lot of your agendas that you deal a <br />lot with entertaining DLNR – the reason why we were after making our own <br />fish and game was to create our own consciousness and ideas, rules and <br />laws for our own Island. I mean, you can stick all the rest of those islands in <br />2 <br /> <br /> <br />