2017-01-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 17, 2017 JO: That’s a good place to meet. One of things when we looked at the range with Command Sgt. Major was a minimum of materials would be needed to set-up, um, a firing point – firing points for the pistol-rifle line – basically some lumber for a cover, maybe some sheet metal for a roof, materials for a bench or seating and I’m told that the engineers that come over from Oahu – the army engineers and some of the other groups – they have need of things to do – so operate heavy machinery, pound nails, or whatever it is – that we could probably enlist some of them as well as many of the volunteers who would certainly show up to help that happen, so... I don’t want to put Tom on the spot here... SMC: Well, I can continue on with that. You’re exactly right - the material is the long pull – the labor piece – the engineers – both the reserve engineer unit here in, at KMR, as well as the engineering units back on Schofield is – one of the challenges they’ve got stick time and they’re looking for projects to build – to maintain their proficiency on their equipment somewhat have you so projects like this fits right into their training objective – it’s free labor, I mean, that’s where the have – PTA gets most of their projects done up there is through what we call troop labor and that’s where I really want to attack this club again is to use that to get the material to build a building – what we need to get ‘em started – that’s actually – the archery range stuff – is troop labor that got all that put together for us – if we can get the lumber we can get volunteer help to do the labor.?? TL: I have a quick question, you said that you were looking towards a program that would run into perpetuity, in other words it’s an outside of a change of command, if something like that was to be addressed or allowed up here at PTA – what would be the opportunity for say a gun club or, even the county or a combination of gun club? The county may participate in building a bathroom. Their investment would be sort of assured if that would be the long term. That could be like a long-term lease, you know, thirty, forty, fifty years. SMC: Right – it would go into a user-agreement. It would be a written agreement between the army with the county that this land will be used or designated recreational range with – and the county has use rights. But once we get this into writing and get both sides lawyers to agree on it is – that’s really what’s gonna be the venue for this thing. A person made a comment but did not state his name. ?: Yeah, I’m hearing all this that you got to build all this stuff and yet, you’ve got it right there in Hilo. You’ve got everything there. You’ve got 32