2016-05-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – May 23, 2016 TL: OK. So since DLNR is running it – how do we in your – and I understand you might be a little flat-footed on this but how do you see DLNR getting names of qualified people into your hopper? JD: OK. The selection process will be determined by the Governor – from what Jim told me. We will give him input and we welcome GMAC input either through us or directly to the Governor’s Office. I don’t think – did the Governor sign – he didn’t sign, yet, did he? He was going sign sometime in June… TL: According to Cogswell – he said that he wanted to do a public signing. JD: OK. That’s what – that was my understanding, and, so, I guess it’s at that time – although we prep the stuff before – then we and the GMAC and any interested party can put in information. Jim said if it’s put in through us, we’ll run it through Kekoa – the Deputy Chair – and have him forward it up – so input on how to select – it’ll probably be by putting out a news release – probably through the department and then, um, maybe soliciting applications on line. TL: OK, um, the whole purpose of having this verbiage in here was to isolate just the qualified people – at least to start with. JD: Um-hum… TL: And to preclude any possibility of not having the local people, you know, we want people who represent these gentlemen out here – represent me, represent the public efficiently and, ah, with their interest in mind and that primarily is sustainable public hunting, ah, and, so, ah, the whole background of this thing was how do we get names to the Governor. The vision was that we would come to you or Kanalu or whatever with these names – or those that would volunteer to be a part of this commission and then have a vetting from people who know them, you know, in the area – hunters – people out here who know these – might know these people – and Maui – same thing – Oahu, Kauai, um, people that can vouch for them saying, “Yeah, well this guy is an upstanding – we want to have him as a commissioner.” And then have DLNR take those who are, ah, vetted so to speak, you know, have the backing of the community to send up to the Governor – that way if the Governor – whoever the Governor picks is somebody that’s OK with the hunting people. JD: The next thing that Jim said that kind of reflects that, um, is that we – both the public, i.e. GMAC, and ourselves, will give the Governor’s Office the selection criteria – he also said we don’t – we don’t judge the qualifications – I’m not quite sure what he meant by that – I need to clarify it – I got that in my notes. I think, um, you guys need to talk with Jim specifically about 4