2021-12-14 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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hunting seasons and the dogs have to be tethered – they can’t be on a tether more than 6-8 feet – and this goes back to something that prior to the park turning over to the county from state – our club had made little condos for each one of the cabins so that the dogs could stay inside and those have been pushed off to the side and we talked with Mayor Kenoi at the time and with the county park – we asked about having – being able to bring those back in and have it with the No Dogs signs all over the place but he said he actually had an engineer that was trying to design for such a thing – we’ve never heard a single word about it and Tony Sylvester can verify what I’m saying cause he was there at the meeting with him… AA: OK… Steve, that sounds good – we’ll try get that going. That’s exactly what we’re here for… SH: OK. I’ll try to get us more information and put it together in a package for you folks. AA: Yeah, yeah, let me know… Thanks, Steve… SH: Thank you… e. October 19, 2022, “Out Doors Day” planning AA: OK. Next one is October 19, next year – Out Doors Day planning. We’ll move this on but I’ll just give you guys a rough backing on it. So we have funding from the county – Tom Lodge, a previous chairman and other commissioners fought for our funding through the county council and he had a plan to have like an outdoor event which can bring together all outdoorsmen, hunters, fishers, gatherers, you know, whatever. So let’s see if we can get something together by inviting DOCARE, by inviting S. Tokunaga, G. Hara and just have an outdoor – some kind of event – kind of like an outdoors day fair or something so – keep that in mind and we’ll discuss it at our next meeting. f. Vote on shooting range development legislative bill. AA: Next one – Nani Pogline came up with information on the shooting range development – it already went to – actually, Nani, can you touch this up real quick? NP: Yes, Nani Pogline with the legislative committee – public member. Back in 2017 GMAC fought hard on the county level to get a bill put through – a resolution – in the county and we won it and it was a resolution supporting the development of a Hawaii Island Shooting Range. Did everybody get a copy of this resolution – the commissioners? AA: Everybody shaking their head Nani, so, yeah… NP: Oh, great, great. Anyway, so nothing happened with this and so would like a vote from the Commission to make this another bill in the legislature – that it may take a bill in involving the state to get our user-friendly public multi-purpose shooting range on the Big Island. Thank you. Action: S. Mendes motioned for GMAC to move forward and pursue the Legislature with a bill for the state to act on a user-friendly public multi-purpose shooting range for Hawai’i Island. Seconded by C. Okumura. Motion passed unanimously by voice vote. 28