2014-04-21 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawai’i Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – April 21, 2014 PUBLIC TESTIMONY ON AGENDA ITEMS Work with the County Council and develop a resolution asking for the State of Hawai’i to look into the endangered species list and see if some species can be delisted. L. Ashida: Do we have anybody signed up for public testimony? Does anyone want to testify? OK. Go ahead. You have to take testimony before any agenda items that are to be discussed. Chair Sylvester: OK. Your first and last name My name is Steven Araujo. I’d like to comment on while you have the agenda in front of me but it would be under unfinished business – I think it would be second to the last. Ah yeah. Working with the County Council and develop a resolution asking for the State of Hawai’i to look into the endangered species list and see if some species can be delisted..The comments I would like to make on that is that what should be done in this case is not to have the County Council just develop a resolution on something that they’re not familiar with. What I suggest is that this body – create the package and submit the package with the species that can be delisted and those that can be found listed along with a cover letter stating the reason why and also create the legislation for it. So in other words you’re going to give the County Council a complete package and maybe they might just have to amend the resolution to their words that kind of thing, but you’d actually do the work for them because if the County Council –the way I look at this is and being that I’ve done this before, yeah, is that if you’re just going to create a resolution and submit it to the DLNR which I guess is the State that you’re talking about – State of Hawai’i – the response could come back saying – we are presently not relisting at this time. Pau. End of conversation. So I mean this takes some discussion. If you guys would like to discuss this thing – I going stay here till the end of the meeting at the time when you guys want to somehow the logistics on how to do it –I would be more than happy to give you guys the... D. Yoshina: I think that is a good idea and invite Mr. Araujo to participate by giving us a draft. S. Araujo: Okay, I… D. Yoshina: And if you don’t want to do that I’d really like to sit down with you and go over –but you need to help me with that. S. Araujo: OK. I need to assist this body, OK. When I did it myself – back in the 90s – it took me a month to go gather the information, compile the information and do it. OK. One month is too long. OK. If you looking at delisting, delisting has 2