2016-05-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – May 23, 2016 JD: \[Unclear\] Jim has graciously volunteered to be the director of – through Kekoa… MB: OK. JD: ….to the Governor… MB: OK. JD: ….ah, but you can also work through me or Kanalu as well. MB: OK. OK. OK. OK. I think just – just someone – because, I mean, well, maybe we’ll get a jump on it but we need, we need a whole bunch of other islands to get on the same bandwagon here, right? TL: Right. MB: OK. All right. So it probably can’t get up and running until we get some time in front of the senate to get it actually, ah, the members approved by the senate. TL: Have you watched any senate confirmation hearing? MB: Um… Yes, I have… TL: OK. Well, you know, it’s not potentially something’s that’s gonna breeze through the senate. MB: Well, it, it, you know, it depends on the topic, right? This one, this one I’m not feeling too stressed about right, cause there’s not a lot of contention. We have a great deal of DLNR support with Kekoa and Suzanne was, um, on board with this so to my feeling and, you know, if we got DLNR support to form this commission, it’s not like some very controversial divided subject matter. I hope that’s the case, but I could be wrong. TL: Well, you have read Suzanne Case’s testimony on this, right? MB: I have, but, you know, if Suzanne Case was dead set against this, Tom, she would have not let the representatives of DLNR speak positively about it, right, so, I, I, I’m, you know, I’m thinking that DLNR is in support of – I mean, we wouldn’t be talking about how to move forward, um, unless we felt pretty confident the Governor was gonna sign this bill into law. TL: Oh, I, from what I understand it’s gonna be a public signing. 15