2022_04_19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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BO: Hand on, I going to share the screen. RM: I cannot see that… AA: Hold on, it’s coming right there… RM: OK. Yeah… AA: I know what you’re saying about the, about your attendance and people expressing their things to you but I don’t think so, and if, that forest – that hunting area is actually open 7 days a week so if you guys open it up again, open up the road again you’ll get more hunters in the area that going be more observant of the times of when the facility is closed and that’s gonna be like free security guard while they passing through the area. RM: Well, I think that’s the challenge is we need to have a better understanding of our responsibility and DLNR’s responsibility when it comes to accessing the land behind our transfer station because, you’re right, we got a road – if we open it up they’re gonna go all the way in the back of the transfer station. Vehicles, you know, are gonna end up parking there – is not gonna be noticeable from the main road as you come in so are you suggesting that there’s a security that goes up there at a certain time of the day? AA: No, what I’m saying is – if the road gets open again and hunters go up there cause it’s an open hunting unit 7 days a week and hunters access that road 7 days a week it’s like having an extra security person there while they’re trans versing in and out off of that road. So you have like an extra presence because right now if the facility is closed, you actually have no one there to patrol the facility, right? RM: Well, the whole idea is… MK: Hey, Ramzi, it’s Mike Kaha with Solid Waste Division… RM: Yeah, oh, Mike, yeah, thank you, Mike, I… MK: I’m so sorry, um, so I’d like to speak to that, again, hi everybody, my name is Mike Kaha and I’m the Acting Solid Waste Chief working for Ramzi, um, I appreciate Ramzi speaking up earlier and if I could add my manao as well – Ramzi is doing his best to provide comment but it’s kinda a little bit unfair because he’s only been with the Department for a little over year so, um, to answer some of the questions – I appreciate that video there, um, the thing that I want to speak about really is the idea from the hunters’ side that if we open the site open that there’d be more people that would be helping guard the area, I mean, that sounds good and everything. I just want to say two things, the real part of it is when we did open that road up, um, we were actually seeing more of the break-ins in so what (unclear) seeing that it is 100% or some percentage of the hunters doing it – what I would go back to is saying what Ramzi said before – that it allows bad actors – whether or not we’re saying hunters or not and I’m not making that statement but we’re gonna allow bad actors access to an area that is not visible. People typically do bad things in the dark of night when they can’t be seen and they’re not going to do it where 3