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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting
<br />Minutes – March 21, 2016
<br />on this item, ah, I’ve gone to a few of those, but, um, it’s answering the
<br />questions, I think, that’s important, so you’ve got to do a lot of I and E. You
<br />cannot just dismiss these questions because they’re really – they are real
<br />concerns.
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<br />?: Absolutely. I hope you don’t feel like we’re trying to dismiss them – I mean
<br />we’re trying to answer them the best we can and, and we’re welcome to
<br />get the comments – so we’re certainly not dismissing ‘em.
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<br />TL: Well, um, excuse me. I want to move on. I’m not going to belabor any of
<br />this stuff except one small thing, um, you know, this term that you folks
<br />use – FONSI – finding of no significant impact – that is rampant
<br />throughout documents, ah, all through DLNR and she’s talking about 100
<br />– I have a document from Pu’u Maka’ala has well over a thousand
<br />signatures of people that came out to make comment. When you get this
<br />finding of no significance impact from the public, um, it’s like you’re not
<br />even addressing any of them and we actually have asked for, you know,
<br />how did you address the public concerns – like in Pu’u Maka’ala for
<br />example – and we have yet to hear, um, back on, on that. And that’s not
<br />what you folks – actually I gave that to Scott – so I expect at some point
<br />they’ll get back to me but it’s rampant, I mean, it’s just over and over and
<br />over – it’s at Pu’uwaawaa or it’s just, um, you ignore \[unclear\] you’re not,
<br />but the implication is that you’re ignoring the public and we want to get into
<br />the game rules, um, here this evening – it’s the same thing there – you
<br />had pages and pages and pages of recommendations of which maybe
<br />one or two were adopted and, you know, the rest of them were, you know,
<br />no action, no action, no action, no action, um, so, but maybe before we
<br />run out of that plan that we had – maybe we could get into that – the game
<br />rules and the changes and how we might be able to go about that?
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<br />?: Ah, yeah, the game rules, they’re very important – we will be doing a
<br />revision, again, um, it’s a long process and I invite and I hope that the
<br />game commission gets up and running and we’ll work very closely with
<br />them allowing them to make their suggestions as to what needs to be
<br />changed, ah, then we’ll look at it and, and see if we can implement some
<br />of those changes and get that happening and I think with the game
<br />commission the process will go a lot smoother on the public side,
<br />hopefully and, ah, let us do that with a little less pain than it took the last
<br />time we did it, um, so I’m looking forward to working within the next year
<br />and starting to get that process moved along.
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<br />TL: Ah, there will be several of us here who have comment about that – it’s
<br />last July, um, we talked about, you know, the potential for getting a group,
<br />maybe statewide or whatever together to start feeding you, you know,
<br />ideas as to how to change the rules and amend the rules and don’t get me
<br />wrong – I’m not dissing the commission..
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