2014-02-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 24, 2014 both ways but I think we’re at a point where if we can kind of come to some kind of common understandings and recognition of some of our additional obligations but know that we certainly I’m hopeful and that’s pretty much all I can tell you right now. Chair Sylvester: Okay, one more, Tom wrap it up. T. Lodge: I appreciate all that you are doing. But, one of the things that I see in asking – that it’s not just the money. There has to be a will in DLNR I mean in dealing with the island community. \[Unclear\] dealing with the advisory councils basically at a ground level you kind of like fractured, you know you have one at Puuwaawaa, you have one in \[unclear\], Willie-Joe here, and they partner with all these other people and really you should be partnering with the hunters as well in all these areas. You know top down fashion. We should have somebody who is dedicated to the community, the hunting community, when you start thinking about these projects, so that he can guide you \[unclear\] coming in and saying hey, well this is what we’re going to do – it’s more of hey, this is what we want to do and how should we do it. Chair Sylvester: Thank you. M. Bartell: First off, Lisa, I want to say thanks. I think that presentation was excellent and I think transparency is very welcome, right, because I don’t think we were getting it before. A couple comments. I was with Malama Solomon late last week. She did a presentation on DOFAW priorities. If you’re a hunter watching this thing it’ll make your stomach crawl, right, I do think that as the new head of DOFAW – you know a lot of people count on the renewable resources we have and they need to be a priority for DOFAW, right. And coming back to priorities, priorities – words are great. I talked about results and I think we need some. Frankly, and I’m counting on you and I’m counting on GMAC to help you get there, right, but you know, when we were at the legislature on Friday I made the comment that priorities are really dollars – and as you look at this administration, if you look at the legislature, if you look at the money stacked up on watershed, invasive species, fencing and eradication – the fact that we actually have the opportunity to get $750,000 this year is probably a first, but when you look at the hunters and we look at the budget on which priorities are based, we don’t even make the page, right? We just don’t make the page. So the words are good, I think the intent is there, money against these programs are what we need. Money and people who are accountable. And I think we have accountable people now – and together we’ve got to figure out a way to get some money to put against this stuff – cause that’s they way we’re gonna get some results. And with that – those are comments not questions, Lisa, if I can help in any way, shape or form, you got my number. Chair Sylvester: Thank you, Mark (Bartell). 21