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so, then you have the release of pigs across the landscape, the introduction of strawberry guava, <br />worms, a lot of other things that increased their abundance and the introduction of guns and <br />metal based knives and other things that increased hunting practices – the practice of hunting <br />with dogs – those kinds of things that are now really common – those are still and we were <br />really cautious in our talking about this in the paper – that doesn’t make it any less Hawaiian to <br />hunt – the fact that it is an evolving practice over time – that’s an indigenous trait – it’s evolving <br />with the times and the resources and the changes over time to persist and thrive, right, and so, <br />um, the, you know, I think the important things is to recognize that pigs being super abundant <br />across the landscape, deer being super abundant across the landscape – it wouldn’t have been <br />that way 200-300 years ago and so those impacts that we’re seeing are kind of result of <br />colonization and the changes to the environment so that’s – those are all things that I’ve been <br />taught from listening to other people, um, and I can’t speak to them as things that I came up <br />with on my own – those are things that I’ve been taught by others who I was listening to. So as <br />far as the bill goes – these are really complex problems in figuring out how to get the deer and <br />the pigs and the goats where we want them so people can access them, eat them, have food <br />provisioning and have them not impacting resources we care about like, you know, causing <br />erosion and impacting fisheries, impacting native plants and stuff. Those are complex issues and <br />I need to take another look at the bill before knowing whether that addresses the problem at <br />the level it needs to be addressed. So, my apologies for a long answer on that. I hope it’s helpful. <br /> <br />6. OLD BUSINESS: <br /> <br />a. GMAC Quarterly Report to Mayor Roth and County Council – draft by <br />Commissioner Cortney Okumura. <br /> <br />AA: OK. Thank you. Ah, moving on. Thank you for the presentation. Looking forward to working with <br />you guys in the future. Moving on to Old Business – GMAC quarterly report to the Mayor and <br />County Council drafted by Cortney Okumura, so, all the Commissioners I’m pretty sure by now <br />have the quarterly reports emailed to you guys, you guys looked over it. So, at this time can we <br />make a motion to approve the quarterly reports, um, we can go back and forth – these quarterly <br />reports. <br /> <br />SW: \[Unclear\] <br /> <br />AA: This quarterly report for the third and fourth quarter – July 19, August 16, September 20, <br />October 18 and November 2022. <br /> <br />Action: R. Duerr made a motion to accept the GMAC quarterly report as circulated. Seconded by B. <br />Ley. The motion passed unanimously by poll voice vote. 7 Ayes, no nays. <br /> <br />RD: I make a motion to accept the report, Duerr, District – 1. <br /> <br />BL: Ley - District – 4, I second the motion. <br /> <br />AA: Any discussion on our quarterly reports. Not seeing none, oh, not seeing none, I’ll make a roll <br />call vote. District – 1, Robert Duerr. <br />22 <br /> <br /> <br />