2017-01-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 17, 2017 state and local economies. There’s a couple of examples: in Ohio every year Camp Peery National Matches bring 20 million dollars to the local Ohio community – 20 million. Illinois – the scholastic placed target program national championships over three years brought in 15 million th dollars. The SCTP program, by the way, which is a school age – 5 grade through college, ah, shot gun shooting program: skeet, trap, sporting plays – we just got it established in Hawaii – we have the first registered team at the Hilo Skeet and Trap Range – we think when we get this going we’re gonna have – it’s gonna go gang busters throughout the state – at least that’s what we’re hoping. To summarize – a properly developed, suitably managed and publically accessible shooting facility is needed that will accommodate the islands’ community’s legitimate, recreational shooting needs and provide the means for delivery of instruction in safe firearms operation and responsible use. With visionary design and operations, such a facility can simultaneously generate revenue for the local economy. TL: Thank you. Does anybody have any questions for Richard Hoeflinger? None. All right. NP: Thank you Richard – that was excellent. DY: Can we ask for a written copy of this report and put it on our record? BCH: It becomes part of our records. If anybody asks for it from the public they can get a copy of it. TL: OK-does everyone hear that. Anybody from the public who would also like to have access to that report once we get it would also be available to you just ask. Will Lt. Shopay and Sgt. Reynold Kahalewai come up? The police departments has needs for a shooting facility for many years and we’d like to hear from them as to what they require as part of the shooting facilities. I appreciate you folks helping us out this evening with this. b. Representative of Hawai’i County Police Department and their need for an adequate shooting facility. LTS: I’m Lt. Shopay and I’m representing the police department along with Sgt. Kahalewai. I manage currently our department’s tactical team and we do a lot of the training for our officers and annual certifications for firearms. Our biggest challenge is range availability. We have an indoor range at our Hilo facility which is dated – has been updated but can only house so many officers at a time. We have a challenging situation where our personnel from the west side of the island and our recruits have to travel to a private range which is quite a distance away incurring travel time and again, we’re limited to the availability of that rang since it’s not a county owned facility. So that’s the challenges we have for our department and 5