2021-02-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

Home

Abraham — I don't have much to add — basically Dick informed me on a lot of things... AA: OK. So basically, my questions would be — where can we go forward with this on the Forestry side because two years ago- like I told you before — I was in a meeting with Tom Lodge and Bob Masuda and you know some of the other guys and everything was a yes — now everything is at a standstill, but at this point — everything was yes before COVID so can't really blame COVID so what would be the state's stance on it right now, I mean, maybe you guys can use COVID as lack of funding — but, what would be the state's point on this? IC: Yeah, I think my experience — the only reason the state was involved is cause they were carving the shooting range of the Puuanahulu GMA, besides the funding that wasn't coming directly through DOFAW or DLNR — the historical — when DOFAW per se got involved but the monies was from Pittman -Robertson — I did ask the PR Hunter Ed folks what had happened in — to the best of my answer was that the match that had existed prior to match — what I think was mostly PR money — correct me if I'm wrong — Pittman -Robertson money — I'd be redirected to Kauai which was more ready to go [unclear]. AA: OK. ?: [not speaking in mic] IC: The match... RH: No, I don't — I remember the year — Cindy Evans asked for an allocation of, as I remember, was $800,000 dollars to do the two things that I mentioned before — complete and EIS and to do a time phased real — a cost estimate — nobody, by the way, expected that this thing was all gonna be — that the thing I was talking about was gonna get built in one full swoop — but we had a design that would accommodate all these facilities and the would be — it was OK [unclear] at least and then it would be built out as funding could become available. Cindy put that bill in and we — it didn't pass and that was the year they allocated 1.6 billion dollars to Kauai to build a range — that 13