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AA: District – 8, Cortney Okumura? <br /> <br />CO: Aye. <br /> <br />AA: District – 9, vacant. Six ayes, no nays. Motion carries. <br /> <br />SW: Rules were accepted. <br /> <br />AA: The committee report accepted, um, would somebody like to make a motion to ask for <br />\[unclear\]. <br /> <br />SW: You can just call for a motion. <br /> <br />AA: Call for a motion. Floor is open. Call for a motion. <br /> <br />RD: Um, I’d like to make a motion that, um, that the what’s called the Manta Ray – the folks on the <br />Manta Ray Committee draft a UEFA request for specific information affecting the manta ray <br />tours – and this would be primarily what we would know is they had numbers – they’re <br />collecting money from commercial operators and that would help us to put a dollar figure - 1) it <br />would help us put a dollar figure on the economic impact – but it would also show us if in fact <br />their records are reasonable and exact. <br /> <br />SW: Ah… OK. There’s a couple things in there. As GMAC does not have regulatory power over DOBOR <br />but GMAC can request records of DOBOR. You can’t necessarily require them to answer <br />question so you could ask for – it sounds like what you want – what you’re trying to ask for is <br />budgetary information regarding… <br /> <br />RD: No. Receipts, receipts, because manta ray – because what’s happening to the manta ray <br />industry is what is a taking. So essentially what the operators were communicating is a) we’ve <br />invested in life savings, hey, we have a boat, hey, now, hey we have a permit and now DOBOR <br />wants to change which will change our livelihoods because it will affect the amount of money <br />that we’re making – we’re afraid we’re gonna loose our boats and our livelihoods. So DOBOR <br />hasn’t come forward to, now, this may also be – because there’s attorneys representing these… <br /> <br />AA: Homeowners… <br /> <br />RD: Yes. <br /> <br />NR: Private owners and the native Hawaiians. <br /> <br />RD: And the \[unclear\] so we could communicate with them as well to finding out what records <br />they’ve received… <br /> <br />SW: Ah, you don’t want to get mixed up with talking directly to attorneys who may have pending <br />litigation with the State and with County. That is getting into very sticky waters – you are a <br />County Board – I would say stay away from that. <br /> <br />37 <br /> <br /> <br />