2024-11-19 GMAC Meeting Minutes DRAFT

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Game Management Advisory Commission County of Hawai’i Minutes Meeting Date: November 19, 2024 Time: 9:00 am to 11:00 pm Place: Zoom and In-Person 25 Aupuni Ctr., Ste #1501, Hilo HI Aloha everyone – thank you guys for joining us today. The meeting of the Game Management Advisory Commission will now come to order today, Tuesday, November 19, 2024, at 9:00am. This meeting is being held at the Puna Conference Room, at the County building in Hilo and on Zoom. Today we have our Deputy Corporation Counsel Miss Inha Kandatsu-Kang. Mahalo. Some housekeeping rules: please make sure your cell phones are turned off or on silent mode so all of us attending here in person – please remember to speak into the microphone when speaking today – statements can be recorded. Under the Sunshine Law, GMAC may remove any person who willfully disrupts the meeting or prevents and compromises the conduct of our meeting. For people who want to submit testimony – for those in person if you’d like to submit testimony, please fill out the public statement registration form. To those on Zoom, if you’d like to testify on any of the agenda items, please provide your name and identify which items you’d like to testify in the Chat. Something special we do is we take questions if they pertain to what we’re talking about on the agenda so if you have any questions from the public for those on Zoom you may drop your questions in the Chat, if you’re here in person please write it on top of the yellow piece of paper we have on the desk. We may or may not ask or answer your questions – at the discretion of the Chair. Moving on to take roll call of the Commissioners, 1. CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL: District 1 - Robert Duerr, Present, in person District 2 – Taysen Wong Chong, present, in person District 3 – Rhon Leomana Turalde, Present, in person District 4 – Brian Ley – Present, in person District 5 - Vacant District 6 – Vacant District 7 – Vacant District 8 – Cortney Okumura – Present via Zoom District 9 – Justin Ackerman – Present via Zoom Quorum Established with 6 in attendance. STAFF: Inha Kandatsu-Kang Deputy Attorney, Corporation Counsel – in person Barbara Kossow, Administrative Specialist – via Zoom 1