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<br />RD: I’m gonna abstain. <br /> <br />AA: Yeah, District – 2, vacant. District – 3… <br /> <br />LT: Aye. <br /> <br />AA: District – 4, absent. District – 5, Abraham support. District – 6, Austin Griffey? <br /> <br />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: So, we got 5 ayes, 1 abstain, 1 absent, motion carries. OK, moving down to – the agenda… <br /> <br />SW: And just for clarity, Austin to draft. <br /> <br /> <br />b. Derek Risch, Conservation and Wildlife Planner and Ungulate Program <br />Coordinator for the University of Hawaii, present on the University of <br />Hawai’i Ungulate Program for Hawai’i Island. <br /> <br />AA: Yes, Austin will draft up the letter. So, moving on to Derek Risch and we also have Melissa Price <br />– they’re both from the University, they will speak about the ungulate program on the Big <br />Island. Go ahead… <br /> <br />DR: Yeah, thanks for that. Thanks for the invitation. Do I have a shared screen I have some slides <br />that I’d like to share. Oh, yeah, hold on a second. All right, is that showing up? <br /> <br />SW: Yes. <br /> <br />DR: OK, cool, ah, yeah, so thanks for the introduction and thanks for the invitation to present today <br />at the Hawaii County GMAC meeting, ah, today, I’m gonna talk a little bit about the research <br />we’ve done on ungulates over the last six or seven years now. We currently have a project going <br />on Hawaii Island. We’re kinda half way through some field work on that and I’ll share a little bit <br />about that a little later on but just to introduce myself, I’m Derek Risch, I am the research <br />coordinator or a research coordinator in Dr. Melissa Price’s lab at UH Manoa, um, and I’ve been <br />working on this research since 2016 on or off as a tech and now as the research coordinator for <br />it. So just to kind of preface here and kinda introduce the different ungulate species that we <br />have across the Hawaiian Island. I know we’re in a GMAC meeting right now so probably most of <br />13 <br /> <br /> <br />