2014-02-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 24, 2014 Chair Sylvester: Thank you, Kalani. OK. I’ll just wrap this one up. The money that we put into the wildlife revolving fund is not enough to maximize that PR funds, right? So where does the rest of the money come from? L. Hadway: That’s correct. We have to match it with staff time and/or if by chance we get other, you know, the revolving fund can take in funds from other types of things – Joe, I don’t know if you have any other examples but for the most part it’s just the license sales. So that account is actually running I think around $80,000. So it barely pays for half a position and a lot of the effort… Chair Sylvester: But is there other, I mean, to maximize the match right now – aren’t we maximizing the match already with money from other programs or other… L. Hadway: It’s not cash, it’s basically a staff that is non-federally funded, which is sometimes hard to find – staff wages. So it’s not operating funds. So it really actually limits your ability to implement things when you’re working with not as much cash, but it’s just staff time. Chair Sylvester: Thank you. D. Yoshina: Can I make a suggestion here. \[Unclear\] look at matching using volunteer kind stuff? L. Hadway: Yeah. There’s opportunities for volunteers. Volunteers come in at a certain price range and we’ve run into the past where sometimes we love to bring kids out to help us with volunteer projects but it’s viewed as unacceptable in some cases by some of the federal programs, so we would have to look into that. But, yeah, volunteer time is, is… Chair Sylvester: OK. Thank you. Tom, wrap it up. T. Lodge: Lisa, also you know in section 183D 10.5 Wildlife Revolving Fund – the mandate of the revolving fund is to use the wildlife revolving fund money for any matching Pittman-Robertson funds. Yet, when you do that Pittman-Robertson I know that money is un-able to be used for game mammal enhancement. Is there any way that you propose any way to increase or to bring in additional funds in there that would be free from that responsibility? For game animal enhancement, basically, cause when you match it, it can’t be done for that. L. Hadway: I’m just trying to get to the section (on power point presentation). Here we are. This is Wildlife Revolving Funds at 183 D 10.5 that you were talking about. And if any of you folks want to know how to navigate what I just got to so you can all see these Hawaii Revised Statutes and everything I can show you the website where all of this is on cause it’s not easy to find but it’s good information to have – Again, we would certainly be in a situation where we would need to be 9