2014-10-27 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes —October 27, 2014 M. Bartell: So if legislation came forward that said rule-making, how would you counsel legislators to vote? L. Hadway: If the rule making commission had a full time attorney general assigned to them perhaps it could be workable. M. Bartell: OK. Alright, so there needs to be underpinnings to that? L. Hadway: Yeah, what I would not like to have happen is a lot of work done by a commission and it ends up coming into legal conflict on certain things and if there's a way to clarify those legal components of it... ....you know, there are very — I would love the rules to be more simplified and much easier to understand and make the process a lot easier in terms of being able to set fees and those kinds of things. It's a very rare statute where we actually are set the fees in statute. Do you know in 1902 they paid $5.00 for a hunting license and today we pay $10.00? And if we did the math... M. Bartell: It would be more expensive than that... L. Hadway: Yeah, so, I'm... [Unclear] on the mainland where they paid $325,000 for a tag on the sheep. Chair Lodge: Excuse me Lisa; you do know that it was your department that rejected a higher license fee. We asked for $30.00 and they said absolutely no way, we can't do it more than $10.00. L. Hadway: Yeah, well... M. Bartell: OK. L. Hadway: No, its set in statute I'm pretty sure. Chair Lodge: Right, but... M. Bartell: So... Chair Lodge: They didn't want to... L. Hadway: Yeah... M. Bartell: That's all right. I think last meeting you gave us a challenge to say how is it we work together to resolve some of this. So I think we're coming back with — I think we want to help resolve this —we are willing to work together to resolve —we'll be creative on how we resolve this — so, I mean, I think we're trying to find some common ground, Lisa, and I think we've 32