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BK: Go ahead...Chair...
<br /> CF: Thank you
<br /> LT: At this moment we're gonna have public testimony from Mr. Chuck Flaherty. We'll give
<br /> you 3 minutes...
<br /> SW: You announce 3 minutes, but since we haven't had that many testifiers, you change it to
<br /> 5 minutes now, and it's just going to apply to everyone else.
<br /> LT: At this point, I am changing the public testimony from 3 minutes to 5 minutes. We do not
<br /> have too many people inside here testifying, so I think it is okay, you don't need to talk
<br /> fast, you can have people express their understanding. So, any public testimony...Mr.
<br /> Chuck Flaherty. Thank you.
<br /> CF: Thank you, Mr. Chair, I appreciate your indulgence, I also want you to know that I will be
<br /> available for the rest of the meeting, if you all have any questions of me during your
<br /> discussions, if you have any questions about the documentation that I have submitted to
<br /> you. I do want to point out to you that I recently submitted to you communication 326
<br /> that was before the County Council Planning Land Use and Development committee,that
<br /> gives the schedule, the proposed initial schedule, for the County Council review of the
<br /> draft General Plan, starting on July 15. Again, that is a draft plan, they were suggesting
<br /> some changes,they haven't come up with it yet. But the first section that will be covered,
<br /> bio-cultural, collative bio-cultural stewardship and I think that is that's probably the most
<br /> relevant section to the Game Management Commission. So, I might shoot for that
<br /> particular, date as far as any testimony from the commission or as individuals, not as
<br /> commission members, but as individuals separately. As I said back in March, the
<br /> presentation to you all, I hope that you all have time to review it. It pretty much lays out
<br /> the regulatory environment, in which you are working,the primary section I hope you will
<br /> look at today it starts on page 5, under, no page 6, proposed solutions. Under the
<br /> proposed solutions...let's see, I have here for instance, the GMAC could recommend a
<br /> policy amendment that reads, "support and empower the GMAC to conserve and protect
<br /> the natural and cultural resources, and furtherance of self-sufficiency and long-term
<br /> subsistence, sustainability of aquatic life and wildlife in the County." So, the way the
<br /> General Plan is designed, you have objectives, and under those you have policies, and
<br /> under the policies, you have actions. Which are the actual ways, the action is how the
<br /> plan gets implemented. So the policy I just read, you would have it, underneath of it, for
<br /> instance, you can have some actions, to insure, things like, I admit...spoken to Bob, and
<br /> one of the things he had mentioned, was mapping of game management areas, so you
<br /> could have action, support the creation of an inventory of mapping of game management
<br /> areas complete with access and restriction information. Another one could be placed is
<br /> administration of game management-Game Management Advisory Commission, under
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