2014-02-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 24, 2014 IX. FUTURE MEETING DATES  March 24, 2014  April 21, 2014 Meetings will be held at 6:30pm in the Puna Conference Room and Mayor’s Conference Room in Kona via video conferencing. X. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Chair Sylvester: Ok, Glennon’s the upcoming shooting range in West Hawaii. Glennon Gingo: How you’re doing, Mr. Chair Sylvester and members of the advisory committee. Thank you very much. Lisa (Hadway), I don’t know about congratulating you, but it sounds like you’re going from the pot to the frying pan. So good luck in your new position. It’s great to have a former representative direct from the island of Hawaii. I hope the best for you and I hope hunters will all become your friends and you’ll become their friends. Thank you very much, as chairman of the friends of the NRA for the island of Hawaii just a quick update for you – the Hawaii Island Public Shooting range in Puuanahulu we’re still moving ahead on that – for some of you that also understand the Pittman-Robertson funds are also used for the support of firearm safety or range development as well and you can thank all of yourselves or anybody in that room that has purchased a firearm or any type of hunting equipment because that’s where that money comes from – those are federal taxes that are filtered to the state for those uses, so it’s not just limited to other related conservation areas. The range development is going along, we have some additional work that’s being done on the sound propagation. There’s some concerns that have been raised by the Waikoloa Resort Association – we’re addressing those issues. The first sound test that was performed by our engineering group at PBR Hawaii registered no propagation of noise by gun fire. We staged our gun firing at several points around the area where the construction of the range will be and the instrumentation that was used in that testing had registered nothing. There was more ambient noise around the resort, i.e. automobile traffic; traffic on Queen Kaahumanu highway, traffic within the resort, people yelling, screaming, tires, and motorcycles had more registered noise. So the resort association has asked the congressional delegation through a letter of complaint that DLNR takes steps to do another committee based sound propagation test. That committee met last week and they’ll be scheduling a second round of sound propagation studies. That seems to be the issue that the Waikoloa Resort Association has raised about this even though the group working on this on targeting incorporated in prior time target there were several other working groups around range development for the past 10 to 12 years – we’ve been fully transparent with the Waikoloa Resort Association as to the 24