2014-10-27 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes —October 27, 2014 sell that conservation stamp again — so we should hopefully see the revenues potentially double in the next—well as they come in — because we're almost halfway through the FY and FY 15 — our fiscal year runs from June 30th to July 1St. So what happens now after that rules package was passed by the board it then needs to go to the Attorney General's office for full — to ensure that it's all up to form — then it— as I understand it— it goes to the Governor's office and once it's signed off by the Governor it comes effective 10 days after that. So we'll be sure to let everybody know when that actually proceeds. I suspect with the change in administration it might get held a little bit. So then I was asked what the main expenditures are of the WRF. And a solid proportion of it goes to the island of Lanai. We pay lease rent there — this reflects a payment of$51,000 and we are now in a 3-year agreement with Pulama Lanai and we're paying $35,000 a year now. It also pays for 2 '/2 bodies — staff members across the state —the majority of them are on Lanai but we also have a staff member who's half time or partially half of their pay comes from the WRF and they're the ones that are mostly involved in the license sales out of the Hilo branch office. So I just wanted to also show you what the expenditures are on Hawaii Island. $44,000 of the fund comes to this island across between East Hawaii and West Hawaii and again we run as a single branch on Hawaii Island so that personnel expense actually is reflective of the position on the island that assists with us. So the legislative report, if you want me to go through, let's see if I have — that's it for slides — so the legislative report I can go through island by island the types of things that they were spent on aside from personnel, Lanai, vehicle maintenance, but for example on Oahu they bought ring necked pheasants for the bird release program, you now, bird feed, traps, those kinds of things. It's all outlined in the legislative report which will be available and provide a breakdown of expenditures branch by branch. Anybody have any questions. Yes? Man: [Did not state his name]...you said you going to bring back the conservation stamp, can I ask you what will that funds be used for? L. Hadway: So that's actually a good question and one of the types of things that could be potentially funded out of this. So what are the types of things that could potentially be funding — come from this would be funding like a state wildlife commission —we estimate that staff time and moving commissioners around statewide to have meetings, etc., they usually try to budget around $100,000 dollars for that to have staff support and the travel costs associated with it. So that's one potential thing. There's ongoing —there's the development of the shooting / archery range on 26