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

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you can give me a list of items of what you’d like to see. I can just go down the list and try to address whatever I can. I mean, this process does take some time and after talking to my administrator the Fish and Wildlife service the people that manage these grants, it’s all open information and we have no problem in sharing. Abraham – Thanks Jason, I guest at this time, just work together with Brian, Kean and Sinclair. Then they can come back with a report at our next meeting or another meeting in the future. Jason – I think the starting point, is to just look at what we are proposing what we are going to do with the money and what is going to be implemented on the ground from there. Like I told Brian in the past, we may ask for 10 grand to do something, we don’t ever get to that project, because there’re lots of other things that is going on, so that money goes back into the pot. It goes back to the Feds; it really never comes to us in the beginning. None of this money actually comes to the department, we actually request it from the Feds as we spend it. It’s not like they ship over 4 million bucks; we just start spending it. We have to demonstrate 25% match on this, even though we are spending Federal money, we still have to, the State has to come up with about 7-8 hundred thousand dollars to even use that money. We have all that information, I think if we look at the proposal and we can kind of start from there. Abraham – Okay, sounds good. Jason since we have you on the phone, hold on Nani. We got another representative from Kona, Teresa Nakama, she put her application for State GMAC. Did you take a look at her application and do you know status of her application? Jason – Well, I don’t actually review the State GMAC commission member information that goes straight to the Governor and he makes his selection, I do get inquires, from folks if they can join the GMAC and I recommend they look at the Board and Commission website and submit their application. Abraham – You can do that on your guys own. Brian – We can discuss again. I don’t know… I just pulled up the Pittman Robinson thing. It says for Hawaii, the fishing received $3,697,000 and for the animals $3,678,000 for a grand total $7,376,044. 15