2014-09-15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – September 15, 2014 Hawaii review it before it becomes public – before public view that way maybe we could address the issues before. L. Hadway: You know, but, because they’ve gone through a process of public hearings – there’s a really – as Craig was mentioning, I think it’s HRS 91, the rules making process – once you get a rule through that process you can’t change them – make substantive changes in that time period. So what the process was, is once we gathered all the comments we had to take in all those comments, make the adjustments and then send that through the Attorney General’s. So basically, what’s coming out is the result of those public hearings… K. De Coito: And the comments is from…. L. Hadway: Hundreds of people all over the state – all the islands. Chair Lodge: That was a question – for when is it going to come up for review again…when it starts… L. Hadway: So once the rules are, if approved, and they’re put out – they will, you know, we could open that back up again. We, I would like to be sure that’s there’s the proper kind of staff in place, for example, a legal fellow or some sort support staff that’s very good at moving administrative rules through the formal process that is involved with it. Chair Lodge: There’s a lot of issues, I know, the bird hunters have and questions also. L. Hadway: Yeah, I believe there’s gonna be no question, there’ll be ideas about improvements to the set of rules. And of anything, I would love to see them simplified myself, but… M. Bartell: This is Mark from Kona. So, Lisa, when did this process start? L. Hadway: I honestly don’t even know. I know it was after the lawsuit and we lost the stamp and then that was the intention and then it went from there… M. Bartell: Someone said 2007? Chair Lodge: I think that’s when the lawsuit was – when it was finalized, I think, and I think that’s when we started the public hearings. M. Bartell: So 2007, it’s now 2014. So seven years to make changes to hunting rules. So number 1, just an observation, it’s obviously an insignificant priority somewhere within the government otherwise it shouldn’t take seven years. So that’s an observation. Cause, you know, it’s important if we got it handled way quicker. Do we understand how another state might do this? 21