2015-03-16 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes—March 16, 2015 need of solidarity and unity. And that's just my concern along with home rule and the traditions. Why not have Palikapu Dedman who has the experience for many years in front of the Governor's legislation to be an advisory to some of the things GMAC is organizing? Why don't you ask people with expertise to be advisory to some of the things and initiatives that you have. One of the things that he wanted to do was home rule. There's a reason for that— because he's been to legislation and he's been through all the things that you've been through right now. Ask him for advice. And that's my question —why wouldn't you. Why wouldn't you support his litigation in the Kau fencing. TN asked that this be on the agenda maybe next time? TL: Agreed to add to next agenda. Volunteers needed to help when dealing with our own island senators and representatives educating them on GMAC issues before going to the legislature and talking to the other senators/rep. It is embarrassing to not have your islands support. We need to be more engaged. Polictics is strong and there is a power pull. You need to know who the key people are. And this brings up another thing —and this is education. When DLNR is able to get away with this idea that we have 700,000 acres here —yet we can't take any sheep and like you heard it tonight and put it even on one acre of state land —the public needs to know what the truth is and they're not getting the truth. And that's what an organization like this can do — cause they're talking about fundraising, outreach and you know these are things that, you know, you folks can help with. Anyway, with that, I'd like to move on to one more item and we're gonna close and we're late and I apologize for this but we have a committee right now— a legislative committee — and it's effective during the —well, the committee is effective during the legislative session and it needs to have a little more emphasis on government affairs — in other words so that the committee can respond to things like this — closing of Mauna Kea for two days — for the turkey season, you know, to do an aerial eradication. As that turned out—that did get resolved and thanks to Steve here and this thing was deferred until next month. So I would like to change the scope of the legislative committee to include all government affairs that has to do with hunting and the other things that we're engaged in. TS: From counsel is there any issue with that, other than us making a motion to do that. Is that OK to include government affairs? Number four— clarifying or renaming legislative committee do this —to include government affairs and administrative issues. 14