2013-09-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – September 23, 2013 Mr. Aila: OK. So in terms of your frustration – I was invited to this meeting which wasn’t a meeting to address a larger \[unclear\] it was to address the four things that I was asked. Recognizing the question I was asked earlier, I made a commitment to come back on a Saturday and spend all day if need be. OK. So I apologize that this meeting does not have the opportunity to answer all the questions that everyone in this room wants to but recognizing that I will come back. OK. So I’m sorry that you had to \[unclear\]. Man: Mr. Aila this meeting is held here, this commission is held here. This island is one of the most rural islands. I think only Molokai is more rural than we are and the people here – there is a large part of the population that depends on the mountain to sustain their lifestyle, to eat, to feed their families. And we have sat here for years and watched everything being taken away from us. Chair Sylvester: Can we move on with the commission? I would like to ask Aila’s some questions. Man: This is very, this is not right that you come here, people calling, oh, we know Aila’s going to be here and we’re going to get a chance to speak to him and then what happens. You guys come here and you guys talk for half an hour, forty minutes and then you gotta leave. That’s not how you conduct business. That only shows us, the people of Hawai’i, what you feel about the hunting and where we stand. Chair Sylvester: We just wasted seven minutes of Mr. Aila’s and our time right now sir. Woman: I want to ask one question. Can you implement the County planning into this plan because County planning \[unclear\] development have domino effect to your folks plans because the County don’t know what you folks are doing. They go ahead and develop and people want to develop the mountain areas like they want to do Hokukano and above Kealakekua and there’s no planning with the mountain area that they want to develop. Chair Sylvester: We understand but can we – we have to stick to this agenda items otherwise this meeting is a failure for myself, the commission and Mr. Aila’s time. So we need to move on as a commission and then we can entertain the public and the input as the time permits. R. White: Just so everybody here knows, yes I am representing Kona but I’m actually, we are a game management advisory commission which means our job being here today right now is to represent you guys and ladies. OK. So we’re doing the best that we can do in a short amount of time that we have here today. So I understand there is a lot of emotion. I’m emotional, we’re all emotional but honest to God we’re doing the best we can in the shortest amount of time that we 10