2021-07-20 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes (2)

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you like to view our proposals. Look at our financial and performance reports, and that shows what we do with those monies and where they go. Personnel it supports, the activities on the ground. The only part that takes a little bit of time, we all have P-cards. When you run a P-card through a transaction – it says First Hawaiian Bank, I can see what branch is spending that money, but I would have connected with each biologist to look at their P-card activity to see how those funds are spent. Of course you know, we have a general idea they are buying tires for their truck, or buying new sprayers, herbicides or whatever they are doing. That information is totally available. I talked to Brian awhile back and I couldn’t really get an idea of what he wanted. Does he want for Hawaii Island, all the islands? What activities, we have 38 different projects in our grant. All this stuff is public information. He did reach out to the U S Fish and Wildlife Services my counterpart there was wondering why I didn’t provide the information. It’s our right to do that or you guys can do a FOIA. That’s up to you guys. I was going to ask them, the Fish and Wildlife Service can we provide the actual financial report that we send to you guys? He said, yes. I relayed that information. We don’t have any problems providing you. You know, one we don’t get 8 million dollars, you can see what each State gets in the announcement from the Fish and Wildlife Service, sorry, it’s Department of Interior. You know, let’s say this coming Fiscal Year, generally Fiscal Year 2021 Hawaii was given 2.682 million, Hunter Ed was given 1.3 million. Out 2.682 million, half of that goes to non-game, half goes to game. So really the hunting program only actually really utilize about 2 million - 2.5 million out of the portion we receive. We have never seen 8 million dollars in 15 years I’ve worked here. This dollar amount does go up a little bit every year and sometime it fluctuates and goes down. What I was telling Brian previously we get 2.5 million bucks, a million goes for salaries, and the rest goes to operation and overhead. In my new budget FYI 2022, starting in September because we changed our grants to the Federal Fiscal year. The operation for the whole entire state is 650,000 for operation only. We can break that down into details on each of things are spent. How they are spent, why we decide, how we decide how we are going to spend the money on. But mainly it is for routine maintenance, we are doing fence checks, we are buying signs, fixing check stations, monitoring guzzlers, there’s a slew of different things. We’ve done a lot of research on the Island Maui, Oahu, we just finish ungulate distribution models on the island Kauai. This money goes into a lot of different pots for research and maintenance type of projects. You guys want to give me a list on what you guys want to see? I can give you the proposal and you can ask questions on that and I can provide financial information on that. You know 14