2019-10-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 29, 2019 goats, a certain amount of sheep and so much acres that can be taken care of in a 24 hour period. TN: So how long will the RFP take, is it a 2-month, 3-month, 4-month – what are we talking about? MM: We’re waiting to hear back from Finance on exactly – we don’t want it to take 3 or 4 months we want it to be a little bit quicker than that if possible but I’ll be able to answer that question – I can give you guys a \[unclear\] date once we receive it back from Finance.. TN: That would be great. I would love an update. Thank you. NP: Richard? RH: I have a question on a different subject but it has to do with the Parks & Recreation Department. The skeet trap range was closed somewhere around the end of June and we were told it would be closed for a period of 8 weeks to be rebuilt. It’s now 18 weeks and we have no clue as to what’s going on and when it will open. It turns out it was very poor timing since the game birds hunting season opens this weekend so all the people that want to come down to practice – it’s not a good time to do – let me put it that way – but what’s happening now and when can we expect it’ll be open. MM: I can provide a solid date. I can’t do it right now, um, but what we’re doing is we’re completing some ADA tie-ins at the skeet range right now. So once we built the tower it came up a little bit higher than what we expected because of the levelness of the ground so we’re pouring out slabs to tie it in through ADA right now, um, and I can provide this Commission an update as soon as tomorrow – I just have to go back and speak to my construction guys and what also we can do is we can inform the public via a press release of what’s the status and when we expect to open it back up. RH: Thank you. NP: Great. Thank you. That was a surprise question but the word spread that you were gonna be here so... Thank you for bringing us up-to-date on that. Jim O’Keefe was gonna ask you the same thing so... MM: And I can tell you guys – that once you go out there – once we open it back up you’re gonna be really happy with the work that our construction crew did. It was all in house construction, um, all of our own carpenters did it – we’ve got a whole group of four and so they took care of everything and with our Park Planner and we worked through DPW as well – and once we start working on an ADA issue – once an ADA issue may be identified by our contractors – even if it wasn’t part of the plans – then we have to go out to 5