2015-06-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes—June 22, 2015 IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: TL: Barbara? Are you there? BK: Yes, I am. TL: Oh, yes, ma'am, would you be kind enough to do a roll call? BK: Sure. Willie-Joe Camara... We are all here so it's hundred percent this evening. TL: Great. Allright. Thank you Barbara. BK: We also have Belinda Hill, Corp Counsel and Bobby Command. TL: OK. Thank you. We have a couple of announcements this evening that we would like to share with you all. One: Ryan Kohatsu sitting here to my right was sworn in today as another GMAC commissioner. Over in Kona we have Jonathan Bertsch. Jonathan is a policeman right now will be retiring and has joined the commission as well. He's gonna bring a lot to our commission as well, yeah. I'd like to introduce them to you all and welcome them to our commission and I expect great service from both of them. With us this evening also are members of the DLNR. We have Chairperson Susan Case is here; we have her deputy who disappeared Kekoa Kuahiwa; we have some of the local members here as well. We Scott Fretz (sp?) he's here from Maui's temporary head, I guess, of the Wildlife section. Is that correct? And Steve Workfelt (sp?) is here. I saw Nick Agorastis here somewhere — oh, there he is back there. I'd like to welcome them —they're part of the staff that are maybe answering some questions that you all may have for DLNR later as we get into the program. I'd like to start this this evening — Ryan Kohatsu — many of you know has been an advocate for hunting and hunting issues for quite a while. He has a program. He's briefly going to introduce to us and kind of set the stage for our meeting tonight so maybe I could get Ryan to head out there and... [Tape gap] RK: All right. Good evening everybody and I want to first thank Chair Case and Deputy and the DLNR staff for taking their time to come out and see us here. I hope that out of this discussion or out of this meeting we can at 2