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AG: Aye. <br /> <br />AA: District – 7, Natalie Reynolds? <br /> <br />NR: Aye. <br /> <br />AA: District – 8, Cortney Okumura? <br /> <br />CO: Aye. <br /> <br />AA: District – 9, absent. Six ayes, no nays, motion carries. <br /> <br />d. Deliberation & Decision Making re: Rules & Regulations Related to Manta <br />Ray Tours Committee Report. <br /> <br />AA: Deliberation – moving on to New Business, section d. Deliberation & Decision Making re: Rules <br />and Regulations Related to Manta Ray Tours Committee Report. Natalie? \[Unclear\] for this? <br /> <br />NR: So, it’s the first report I did. So, I just want to make sure I did it correctly, so our committee does <br />not support it and you guys were given the report last month as well as this month thank you, <br />Barbara. We are not supporting it based primarily on the lack of communication between <br />DOBOR, the small businesses, permit owners, and large businesses \[unclear\] everybody was <br />involved in the suggested proposed rules as well as, the safety precautions and thirdly most <br />important the, taking away native Hawaiian sustainability, for the manta tours because it’s <br />made up of a lot of native Hawaiians – we do not support the current proposed rules and <br />regulations in regards to the manta viewing sites. <br /> <br />AA: Abraham, District – 5, so we not supporting the rules – we’re not in support of the rules – you <br />asking the Commission not to be in support of the DOBOR rule changes but you came up with <br />your own committee suggestions and you want the Commission – you’re asking the Commission <br />to support that? <br /> <br />NR: Yes. <br /> <br />AA: Did everybody get the chance to go over these rule changes from Natalie’s committee? I guess I <br />have one – did your committee investigate where that extra $300 dollars was going – of <br />additional fees? <br /> <br />NR: That’s the part of the lack of communication. <br /> <br />RD: You know, Chair, I, as an outdoor journalist, I requested that information from DOBOR, which <br />was essentially the breakdown of the money – how much – like how many permits for $300 and <br />also one because it’s commercial that DOBOR every month gets a percentage of the revenues – <br />so was asking for like quantification from DOBOR of like what is the \[unclear\]? I heard zero back <br />from DOBOR. <br /> <br />34 <br /> <br /> <br />