2014-10-27 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes —October 27, 2014 Chair Lodge: Yeah, I want to get to Lisa here too, so... J. Sanborn: Real quick on the PTA thing. I think someone should take notice and let the commander know that this is a big scam. The whole PTA, every single area in PTA is fenced off currently. So now they're talking about a game management plan —well this past four years while they've been doing fencing I have friends on the fence — I know this for a fact— they're won't be no animals to manage in PTA. The 1,200 animals is done. They took four years — all of the animals — all of the 900 and something animals that was counted in Hawaiian Homelands actually belonged to PTA. Those are animals that were pushed, pushed, pushed, pushed to pressure, pressure, pressure —went across the street and are safe in now DHHL lands. They often, every night, three or four hundred animals go back into across the street— there are videos on You Tube of them going across the street and going back into PTA. But they're continuously pushed out. So the game management plan — there is none — because you're only talking about impact area and the impact area has very little animals. I have a lot to say and will help in any way I can. 4. DOFAW Administrator Lisa Hadway —Accounting of the Wildlife Revolving Fund. L. Hadway: OK. So I was asked to present the Wildlife Revolving Fund situation and what I want everybody to know is our legislative report for FY 14 was due in October and it's come out of— it's up in the Governor's office and it should be approved by the end of the week— so at this point I can't hand the legislative report out to everybody but by the end of the week it will available on line — so but I can present it to you just in terms of what the funds were in FY 14, so it's actually a very dry presentation in terms of pictures and stuff. So basically — revenues in FY 14 and I'll go — I'll show another chart— but there was $178,000 that came into the Wildlife Revolving Fund (WRF) and the WRF in the next slide I'll show you the revenue sources. It was established basically for— it's got in statute and that's part of the legislative report— but basically when you see that the expenditures were actually more than the revenues —what that demonstrates is that there were staffs who are funded from other sources were contributing to work associated with the WRF. So we actually had a negative cash balance at the end of FY14. So these are the summary of the revenue sources, you can see that hunting license sales brought in the majority of the funds - $168,000 and there's small other fees that came in and as Ryan mentioned and others mentioned we did get the rules package approved by the board on Friday, late in the evening. So what that means is the new rules will allow us to 25