2016-02-22 Game Managemetn Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes—February 22, 2016 MA: ....into that or if those two options don't work for whatever the circumstances are then just taking them to a waste disposal facility. NP: Mm... Last... MA: So, we've got back-up for that so that we know we always have a pathway to address this and keep this operation as clean and as minimally like problem creating as possible... NP: Yeah, good job... MA: ....it's not the cleanest thing in the world, I mean, it's a slaughter processing so that you do have an effluence stream that comes from it. NP: Yeah, yeah, right. Anyway, thank you very much. Very impressive. MA: Thank you. NP: There is a lady - that you had a question? SV: [Not speaking in mic] TL: Excuse me, ma'am. Can you come up here so we can hear you and record it? Oh, there we go... SV: Yeah, I wanted to know... TL: Yeah, you're good... SV: ....Sharron Vanata, um, I have a little ranch up on the slopes of Mauna Kea and I'd like to know if I pay you my $100 fee plus my $500 how many of us ranchers do you need? MA: Our break even for this project is thirty— thirty members — which is a very low number. We've had well over 70 interested parties prior to start up — we start up regardless because the funding that we've received actually covers us for our first 18 to 2 years of operations, so, in April we'll be up and running regardless of the number of members. Currently, our membership is a bit under 20 — and we're looking a fifteen to twenty range — but it's also a challenge for a lot of the small ranchers to commit their money to it because it is a $600 output and until they actually have a service that they can use it's like most of them are saying, "I'll just wait." So we know that once we get up and running we're gonna have a whole load of people that are going to paying and joining. SV: Yeah, I think most of us will just wait... 16