2014-09-15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – September 15, 2014 K. De Coito: Thank you for that and Tom, I going enlighten you on that one. Yeah, I can call Lisa (Hadway), you been calling Lisa, you been calling everybody. Do you find results? Chair Lodge: Sometimes… K. De Coito: Sometimes. That’s what I’m saying. We here – we will make a difference together. Whether it’s your concerns – I back you up – they back you up. My concerns you back up – then we go to these guys. But to say I going represent my district and just go to her directly and just call her that’s just like one typical phone call. Well, that’s not what I’m getting at. I’m getting at we get one format stating OK Kau district this what we asking – this is what we looking at, your district. It’s not an individual person doing whatever – it’s the district – it’s each and every one of the public addressing in the different areas. And we need to put them in format where we can present them to these guys and they figure out who, what department needs to come here and address the situations. Chair Lodge: I agree… K. DeCoito: It’s not for me go call her and if she going give me whatevers and the next thing you know we, oh, you know, that’s so and so’s department and you call but they don’t want – they no longer work there so whatever he or she said no longer exists because it’s considered a hearsay. Chair Lodge: That actually happened… K. De Coito: See, I’ve been doing this just as long as you – and that’s why I’m saying, you know, I’m tired of it. And every public people in this County of Hawaii is tired of it. And that’s why we were formed. We were formed to make people accountable. To hear the voices, whether it’s Hawaiian gathering rights, whether it’s hunters’ rights, fishermen’s rights, not what environmentalists and everybody else public changing, parks changing, but nobody seems to know what rules is what. Whether it is target practice guys, whoever, nough already. We need to be accountable to our public, to our district. We don’t represent Kauai, Lanai. We represent Big Island of Hawaii, County of Hawaii. We go state of Hawaii we representing other islands? Who are we to speak out in behalf of the other islands? Chair Lodge: Craig, do you have a question. C. Masuda: Chairman. I think what Commissioner De Coito – correct me if I’m putting words in your mouth – I think what Commissioner De Coito is asking for is like a place within – a set place within the agenda – where the different representatives from districts – we can have like OK District 8 reporting whatever and then that’d be discussed as a body here, not as resolving things individually for each district and then you end up with 9 different answers for 9 different 11