2013-04-15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes, April 15, 2013 Page 6 C. Bailey : Right, that would be fine as long as we're showing that it is bipartisan effort. I think the criteria is there had to be 3 Republican and 3 Democrats. But, I can take your question or you can review the organization material. If you still have questions I can research it. W. Camara : How do you think the legislator will take this? Would they be supportive to this? Is this going to be a lot more work for them? C. Bailey : Andy Treharne spoke to Rep. Cindy Evans and she is open to looking at this and moving forward with it. I know, Tom knows probably a half a dozen congress people that are sportsmen friendly and they can be introduced to it as well. It's just something that talking to the public in my district and other districts to see what we can do. There's this mechanism out there that we are apparently not using because Hawaii is not part of this Sportsmen's Caucuses. So, when things slow down in the legislature, say after May when congress people have time to sit down and talk about other issues than if GMAC want to vote on moving forward on in investing on this we can set up an appointment with the Western Regional Manager and say Cindy Evans and some congress people that Tom knows and maybe do it on a conference call with the County Council Chairwoman Willy's office where the Council is on it as well and see where it matures or dies from there. W. Camara : In what capacity GMAC will be in this? Is there another agency that we work with or is this something we will do within the commission? This is for the whole public? I'm under the understanding that we are advisory. Are we going to be setting up these meetings? C. Bailey : No, actually if you look at the organization materials for this National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucuses, it’s actually a commission by itself and what it is; we like the public will have access. We'll have someone in the Capitol all the time, where say, like recently we tried to submit House Bill 104 & 105, we can go to them and they can help you through the process if you don't understand the legislature process and help you bring our bill to fruition. Our duty would be to bring the issues to that caucus and then they will present to legislature and back to us on how to do testimony or whatever that would be. Actually, they are the go between for us to speak to the congress people at the Capitol level, basically the liaison person between us and the Hawaii legislative body.