2025-06-17 GMAC Minutes Final Draft

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RD: Do we...you know how important...Robert Duerr District 1...how important is it for us to give testimony as a commission on this General Plan in front of the County Council? LT: Uhhh...see I don't know because, we already interact with them so much that ..having an official presentation by us...ummm CF: Mr. Chair, Mr.Chair Chuck Flaherty here if I may, its it would be far more influential I guest I would say, for you to submitted as the commission, then as individual because it would show, it would give a public show that the commission is unified in it's decision and in it's testimony to the County Council. LT: Thank you. Okay... Long term work on it... short term within next month because we're falling under this first call chapter, which is biosecurity, cultural solution, so I think...As individual we know we'll testify, then we work on commission presentation. RD: Duerr District 1, you know, we have seen this before, essentially this has been a zero-sum game, with differ and deflect. We've had Mr. Flaherty on the agenda since March, with the attempt to be able move forward with resolve from this commission,we've stymieing, and we have been road blocked. And that is a differ and deflect, hunters, fisherman and gathers have seen this in the past from other attorneys. Attorneys who sit at the tables against, hunters, fisherman, gathers and native cultural practitioners, play a zero-sum game. And that zero sum game is the first thing is you have no ability to be at the table, you're not a stake holder. And so, this is something totally unacceptable. How do we move fo rwa rd...how do we move forward; one, I'd like to make a motion...I'd like to make a motion...Let's first find out how important it is.... SW: You already in a motion you have a motion on the floor... LT: inaudible.... that motion...okay yeah...going from there... KW: If I may, LT: Yes ma'am KW: Mr. Chair, Deputy corporation counsel, Kayra Wong, I think one option might be like Mr. Duerr was saying to perhaps hold a special meeting at that special meeting, so essentially at the special meeting will happen between today's meeting and your regularly next scheduled meeting in July. And I hear you guys want to meet that July 15 deadline in order have something to submit. So, it might be beneficial if we can maybe take a pole of the members right now to see what dates would work. And the sole purpose of the special meeting would be to come, like do a work session. This is what we want to put in the documents to submit to the council. So that helps, because we'll be able to meet 24