2014-09-15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – September 15, 2014 V. Budget Report: Copy circulated to board members. Current remaining balance is $7,139.00. Action: W. Camara moved to accept the budget report as circulated; seconded by D. Yoshina. Motion carried unanimously by voice vote. VI. Public Testimony on Agenda Items R. Hefflinger: My name is Richard Hefflinger. My comment is a fairly short one. I think your agenda is out of order. You indicated earlier that you encourage the testimony and encourage or try to engage the public but I don’t understand how your agenda works where you have the public testify before you ever get to the agenda item. You publish an agenda that the discussion items – it’s unclear to me what really you want to discuss and so there’s two ways to handle this, in my view. One would be when you publish your agenda, publish a short abstract on what it is you’re gonna discuss so people who come to the meeting will be prepared to discuss that or change the order of the agenda and put the public discussion after the – the public testimony – after the discussion. Thank you. It was determined that a brief synopsis of what the actual item is instead of just the title will appear in future agendas. P. Pacheco: Yes, Mr. Chairman, before I make any comment I see only a – number 3 Lisa Hadway – Game Rules and Regulations – Strategy if Delayed, a) HRS License Fee Increase – I would like to hear HRA hunting fee before I make any comment, I would like Lisa to try to explain this further so there can be something said about it – I mean since I see her name there. Would you mind if she comes up and explain to us and I reserve my questions after, I mean my comments after? Chair Lodge: That’s quite – we’re gonna be discussing that here in a minute. P. Pacheco: Thank you very much for right now. I want to say that’s all I have for her right now and it’s just that we cannot discuss what Nelson said, Nelson said earlier because of… Chair Lodge: Not part of the agenda. P. Pacheco: Yes, yes, yes. That wasn’t part of the agenda, I understand that, and also they’re like Willie-Joe Camara said, that there’s lotta things were said and even though I said something there’s nothing in there that I’ve said it – I mean apparently who does this print what you like – write – but you don’t print what the people say. So let’s make it correct and if we’re gonna type – get 4