2019-10-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 29, 2019 training activities have been from some very generous benefactors who have donated to this so that’s something that allows it to continue. Yeah, we’ve had 2500 community members sign a petition in support of the range – we’ve had a 16 year effort. I am please that the Deputy Director of DLNR – Robert Masuda – has put his might and weight back behind this effort to get this project going forward... NP: What has he done? I know he’s very supportive... JO: We are moving to and Malia will help me with this – get the Land Board to get that easement and we’re looking to get some language for the bill to get some funding so – until we get that it’s hard but prior to his involvement it was sort of lackadaisical support with the DLNR but we have an advocate there for that. NP: He made a public or verbal promise that he was very supportive and I was just wondering if that’s playing out in action. JO: Well, with anything with the DLNR it takes time so – and I’ve known Bob for many years, um, and I know he’s a man of his word and some. Yeah, OK. We’re gonna need a long-term funding plan and that’s part of what we have to do but the first thing that we have to do is get our environmental assessment published and that’s where we need the first funding to go there. On Target has been supporting this all along. None of our members get paid anything – it’s a total volunteer organization, ah, we survive on donations and grants from the NRA, which are funded by our annual Friends of the NRA dinner, which is by coincidence this coming Saturday at the Sheraton Keauhou so, um, it’s a big fundraiser for us, for the grants programs that the NRA funds, you know, range development, training programs – those kinds of things – not the politics of it. This is what I’d like to see there, you know, it’s a little bit of walk-up – that’s the Clark County Shooting Complex up in North Las Vegas there so – pretty – and it’s almost dry enough to look like, you know, the west side of the Island but it’s still a little bit off. That’s our dream, OK. A little bit about On Target – it’s just a statement about us and on our board among our membership are leadership really – we have eight N-Eraser 5 Rifle Pistol Shotgun instructors – we have a number of competitive shooters – we have five range safety officers – I am a Chief Range Safety Officer – I train others in range safety. We have a lot of us are First Aid/CPR certified – I also teach new instructors in the shooting sports – we have a professional gun smith and a couple of former police officers on our board – that’s a little bit about On Target and that’s the end of that. Dan would you like to, you know, that’s the Puuanahulu so let me entertain a few questions, you know, whatever you have here about that range and then let me ask our visitor here to talk a little bit about what’s going on at PTA because it fits into this real nicely. 22