2016-02-22 Game Managemetn Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes—February 22, 2016 detailed business case and based on all of that came up with the entire (W financial picture that has been sufficiently compelling that has enabled us to receive all the grant awards that ultimately bought and paid for and got the unit on to the island. Currently, we're in the process of going through our initial training so we've hired a selected group of butchers that are going to be managing this thing regionally when they thing comes into their region of the island we have butchers in those locations who will actually operate the unit while it's there and we are starting the regulatory approval cycle with USDA to receive our grant of inspection, um, as well as Department of Health for managing any waste products that come out of this. So, um, our targeted startup date at this point is in April and, um, assuming everything goes well with our regulatory approval process which we're planning on being up and running in that time frame. So with that — what we can do is have Gino take you through a —just a quick graphic— and I do mean graphic— this is actually from one of our practice sessions so you will see the process in all its glory in here. So if that's challenging for anybody, please speak up quickly and we'll try and [unclear] hop through that as fast as we can. JE: Yeah, it's really important that we demonstrate and enlighten people that, you know, what this is — it's a meat wagon — it's a mobile slaughter unit and, you know, what we're trying to do is become sustainable here in these islands and be able to make sure and ensure our families, you know, that we're capable of putting food on the table. At the same time become an industry of small producers that might be able, you know, to feed the rest of the state as well as, you know, maybe do some exporting. We don't have any exporting industry or anything like that right now, OK, so, you know, since the plantations went out— so what we're looking at is hopefully being able to put this meat processing together and be able to sustain life in these islands. So I'm gonna go ahead and start on this first slide, ah, Hawaii Island Meat Cooperative — Mobile Slaughter Unit— February 22, 2016 — and it's a presentation to the Hawaii County Game Management Advisory Committee. OK? So the first one we have right here— it's the mobile slaughter unit is a trailer— is it a forty foot? MA: It's 36 foot footprint. JE: Yean, and, ah, it's really a cool unit. As we go through you'll be able to see what I mean by this. OK. Now this is from the back entrance of the mobile slaughter unit —the end part of the trailer— and this is the wash and harvesting section and basically, what we have is the necessary hooks and implements to raise the animal in order to make it easy for processing or "harvesting," you know, we like to call it. OK. Also in the back section of the mobile slaughter unit we have the view of the chill compartment and the harvesting rack or the track. Naturally, when we pull the animal up then it'll be hoisted up onto these rails and then from there it becomes 5