2022_04_19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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TN: Excuse me, Teresa from the public… If there was a hotline to access the code after-hours that would be an idea to consider. AA: Abraham – District 5. MK: So this is Mike from the County, so, um, I like the direction that this is going, it sounds like it’s more of a – if the Game Commission now is all right with the idea of a gate with a combination that somehow can be figured out I think the details then can be worked out between DOFAW Fish and Wildlife and the County. I think for purposes of this call if we’re saying that seems to be something good – I mean I’m liking the direction of this… AA: OK, Mike, my next question – next question Mike – Abraham – District 5. So the other thing was brought up to me – with through DOFAW was who’s gonna pay for this gate. Now came back to me that DEM wants the State to pay for the gate but it’s on County facility so why should DOFAW pay for the gate to have gathering access? MK: OK, so, I’m hoping that we can all see that this is our attempt to try to work with everybody here… AA: Yes… MK: Again, I do not know of any existing – anything that exists now, that says that this is something that exists – I’m glad to hear cause, there’s obviously a lot of people on site – when I got here in ’14 and we did put up a public notice to everyone in the community that we’re going to be working on that site and we started development in ’15 and then we, um, finished the site, I believe, in ’16 – but we put up the public notice, we let everybody know what was happening. The access right now, I’ve seen of the pictures from before, it’s a far cry from what it used to be so I won’t sit here – for the people that were hunting and gathering in that area from before if you are saying that where the trailhead is now and where it comes off the road that this was exactly how it used to always be – I’m gonna say that that’s not what I had on my records as far as the development of the site – it was not that at all – it was very overgrown – if there was a road – it wasn’t like it exists now. So I just – two things – it seems to me that – I just want to be clear – what exists now is so far better than what it used to be to say that this is a better area for everybody – it makes sense – why develop another area above the site or below the site go through EISs and all of that. We’re also seeing that our division is for solid waste – that’s our purpose, we’re, our background profession is to make sure that there’s an efficiency base for you guys – the community – not just hunters and gatherers – but the community take their rubbish – just last week we had break-ins and there were like three of my containers that the winches were ripped off of it and so we were having a hard time figuring out \[tape gap\] take scrap metal to the scrap metal vendors and we were able to figure it all out we got it all taken care of – but these things do happen – so I’m not gonna – somebody said earlier that break-ins happened before and it’s happening now. I never said that it wasn’t – I said that it – when we opened it up – unfettered access – that the break-ins rocketed and that when we put the rocks back that it decreased – but you’re absolutely right – that kind of stuff happen. And they happen across our island and you’re right, you know, you guys all – me too – we all pay taxes for those things to get handled but we also pay, you guys pay us to make sure that we manage the area correctly, right, like we’re not just like closing our eyes and going home every night – that we’re 15