2014-02-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

Home

Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 24, 2014 to happen overnight and it takes funding to make things happen and it takes us going through planning processes in dealing with some of these issues such as the Endangered Species Act. D. Yoshina: OK. I think it would really help me to get over some of my cynicism if you could, or the department could put down some real tangible targets that you’re moving towards and if you can report back to us – well maybe not to us but to everybody – to the public generally – to show that you’re really serious about this, because in 30 or 40 years that I’ve had relationships with DLNR it’s been a lot of talk but not much action. So I’d like to see that, you know, so it’s not that I doubt you, but I just think that the department needs to have these real tangible kind of action things that go on so that users of the resources can start seeing it. Thank you. L. Hadway: Thank you. Chair Sylvester: Thank you, Ike (Yoshina). Kalani? K. DeCoito: So basically this is a draft, not implemented… L. Hadway: This, when you request funds from the legislature you constantly get questions on how it might be spent. And so this was a way of helping to communicate that kind of overall picture. This was just put together like in the last month, month and a half, to help us communicate, as we mentioned when Esther Kiaaina– I think you were at that meeting when Esther (Kiaaina) was there when we initially said we would be asking for the $1.5 million – so the initial hope was that we would have the full suite of the funds – you know this is for $750,000 in the first FY15 – FY16 we’re hopeful, but like I said, we’re already looking for an avenue to ask for an additional amount of funding at the legislature through House Bill1902. K. DeCoito: What I getting at is not the financial part that you know we’re going to have to play politics on – it’s more in the concerns of who has the capabilities of helping you form this. I mean, yeah, the public interest is the biggest, you know, that’s where \[unclear\]. And to have someone else out of that – you know people like us recommend something – to draft this kind of things and to say oh what’s good for one island is good for all islands is – it’s not right. You know like forming one commission under you, to help you, for each island, you know, that’s what I looking at. It’s not just environmentalists saying that this is what it is – game management – this is how it’s gonna go and shove it down everybody’s throat. \[Unclear\] It’s more like people that we know that will speak out on our behalf and say, eh, wait, this is what we on our island like or what they want on their island and this is how the outlook should be and not, you know, emphasize oh this is what it is, take it or let it ‘cause power so called environmentalists say that’s the best thing or biologists say that’s the best thing. OK. 8