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<br />Hawai’i Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – April 21, 2014 <br />Man: \[Unclear\] <br /> <br />\[Group laughter\] <br /> <br />Man: You know what, he retired already. <br /> <br />L. Ashida: Seriously… You really should – remember when this whole GMAC <br />was formed in the campaign… <br /> <br />Man: yeah. <br /> <br />L. Ashida: One of the things that – and \[unclear\] remember what I said. Let’s <br />keep this out of the Charter because of the difficulty that we’re gonna have <br />amending it \[unclear\] way back \[unclear\]. I think we need to take this commission <br />back to the Charter to \[unclear\] this election – the deadline for submitting <br />legislation and put on the ballot for this November is probably like in May <br />sometime. But what I’d suggest doing is right now you’re pegged to having only 9 <br />members – one for each Council District. I think that’s seriously inhibiting for you. <br />It should be like – just as an example – the Leeward Planning Commission and <br />Windward Planning Commission – they have – they’re not peg to Council <br />Districts but they’re peg to regions of the island: Hamakua, Hilo, Kona and then <br />they have at-large members. So that way you’re not going to run into the <br />problem: Gee, we have this one issue – we cannot find people – anybody. There <br />might not be anybody that district you like work with, you know, but if we have an <br />at-large system – like the way the planning commissions have – guys like <br />Hisashima, you know, he like serve, I know, OK. <br /> <br />D. Yoshina: He don’t want to draft. <br /> <br />G. Hisashima: Huh? <br /> <br />L. Ashida: No, everybody, just give ‘em one can Spam. <br /> <br />\[Laughter\] <br /> <br />G. Hisashima: I’m serving already on the Ethics Board, so… <br /> <br />L. Ashida: Yeah, he services on the Ethics Board – but the idea is – you not <br />limited to these structured positions and we should look at other changes that we <br />should incorporate. I think, you know, what’s done is done, but perhaps the way <br />that this was created wasn’t done in a way which properly anticipated the issues <br />that we are now facing. I just throw that out but if you want to move on that <br />you’ve got to move right away because we got to get it to – we got to make it a <br />ballot question. I don’t know how you guys feel about that – you know you all are <br />grandfathered in your districts but instead of like \[unclear\]… <br /> <br /> 29 <br /> <br />