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LT: Oh, yeah, um-hum.
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<br />SW: So, I’m just letting you know I can help. Any other comments, or discussion?
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<br />AA: Not seeing any, Abraham, District – 5, just to go off what Leomana was saying – you guys know
<br />I’ve been here for five years now and when I came in I was just a hunter just like anyone of you
<br />guys, and I didn’t really know anything coming in this thing, I knew maybe Ian Cole – that’s
<br />about it, but going through this whole process and being the Chair and just being in this
<br />Commission itself, as much as you put into it you going get out of it, right? Like – I like recently
<br />just this year I met Kim Kozuma – she’s awesome, you know, I didn’t know she lives like the next
<br />street down from me, right, so?
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<br />KK: It’s a small \[unclear\].
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<br />AA: Yeah, Big Island small world, right, that’s, you know, that term says very strong, as far everybody
<br />else, you know, I just – the question comes from anybody – from the public – from the
<br />Commission and I going do my due work to, you know, research it and whatever – I was put into
<br />this position and I put everything that I pretty much could have in this position – like the whole
<br />time should just getting everything - like I was told recently that, oh, if you going quit then, I
<br />mean, not quit but once your term is up then I going resign is like, oh, you shouldn’t do that
<br />because, again, you going, as much as you put in is as much going get back. Like me and Brian,
<br />ah, we fought for hunter check-in stations to, you know, the lower Puna area that we got. And
<br />that branched out to many other areas throughout the Island that hunters was complaining
<br />about hunter check-in stations that wasn’t there that’s now there. That’s part of – because of
<br />this Commission, right, 2021 we fought – we supported legislation and we got like 3 bills passed
<br />that year – there’s no other Commission that, I think, that really supported bills that went
<br />through and actually became laws and came like active resolutions, we got that game, I mean,
<br />the shooting, the shooting working group thing that’s still active, right? Justin Ackerman pretty
<br />much and Cortney taking head of that, you know, coming up within the next year and see what
<br />the status is that, um, you know, Leomana was, you know, in support of that legislative season a
<br />couple years ago, so, you guys, don’t feel bad or whatever because I’m leaving, you know, you
<br />guys got to put in you guys’ due work just like I did and know these people and know every,
<br />kinda like every aspect. And I like see – I kinda set up the ending of the year for you guys to keep
<br />moving forward like we got this working group – the west side – east side thing – going on, um,
<br />\[unclear\] with that DAR coming in, you know, so I pretty much set you guys up to keep this
<br />Commission going through the future and, you know, I can possibly come back in two years –
<br />we’ll see how everything goes, right? So, I know Sylvia going scold me…
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<br />SW: We don’t want your…
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<br />AA: ….right now probably for just rambling on but that’s pretty much…
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<br />SW: I was very close…
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<br />AA: I met a lot of people like I met, you know, Sylvia – she’s, we was butting horns in the beginning
<br />but, we kinda found one happy medium. Met Brian Ogawa is here today – talked to him a few
<br />times – Brian Ogawa, met, you know, Barbara, Barbara been working us for the last – working
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