2016-03-21 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – March 21, 2016 TL: Tonight we have with us the administrator of DLNR, Dave Smith; we also have his sidekick Jim Cogswell; we also have with us Steve Bergfeld from the local DOFAW office here – they’re gonna be discussing some of the rule changes that we’re planning on doing and how we’re gonna go about it is one of the things that we’ll be doing tonight – we’ll get into that here shortly and, ah, Dave’s vision of DLNR and how we’ll be working toward sustainability of our game animals and the process for accomplishing that going forward, um, with that I’m gonna move on – the approval of the minutes – we have a huge stack of minutes here, um, anybody want to go through them or do you want to approve them – anybody move to approve them? DY: This is Ike. I move to approve. NP: Second. V. Budget TL: OK, ah, all in favor? \[The ayes have it\] All right, so, ah, the minutes we’ve approved. We don’t have a budget report here so we’ll pass on the budget report. Anybody from the audience have any comments to say on our upcoming discussions this evening? Ah, and just know that Dave Smith and the gentleman, ah, Jim Cogswell and everybody have agreed to interact with, ah, you folks in the audience tonight, so – how we’re gonna do this is if you have questions, um, raise your hand, um, we have a microphone that we will give you – and, ah, you can address them and you can get, ah, as much done that way, I think quicker, um, when they’re done with their presentation so, um, if there’s anybody that has any testimony ahead of time here raise your hand. You do? ?: \[Not speaking in mic\] TL: Oh, OK, no… Ah, our agenda – the way our agenda works is that, um, if anybody has any comments on our agenda, ah, being that we copy this agenda from the Liquor Commission or somebody – it’s just that there \[unclear\] OK, so, and, ah, as far as our discussion goes let me introduce Dave Smith and Jim Cogswell, two gentlemen… VI. Public Testimony MB: Hey, Tom? Tom, it’s Kona. We have someone that wants to make a comment on the agenda. TL: Oh. OK. Very good. All right. Shoots… MB: Come on up here – you have to speak in front of the microphone. 2