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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – November 28, 2017 <br />TN: Yes that would be a good thing. <br /> <br />MH: I think that would probably be the best way to begin a dialogue so that you’re <br />not just at the ledge and then fighting against each other. <br /> <br />TN: Thank you for your suggestion. <br /> <br />NP: Good idea. <br /> <br />TL: This is the Apprentice License Program that we want to introduce, um, <br />speaking and I’m gonna close this off here right now.... <br /> <br />DY: Dwayne “Ike” Yoshina made a motion that GMAC support this license. <br />Seconded by Willie-Joe Camara. Motion carried unanimously by voice vote. <br /> <br />TL: Let me ask you guys out there in the public – what do you think about $50.00 <br />dollar hunting license. <br /> <br />Where does the money go? Right? The biggest problem people have today is <br />that the money they see is not going to where we want it to go. In my opinion, <br />get rid of those stamps and all this other stuff and just have a hunting license <br />fee that’s thirty dollars, never mind all these stamps and other stuff. It costs <br />more money to issue the license because of the stamps. All the others things <br />is not doing anything to serve the resource and you’re paying for a stamp that <br />you don’t get when you do it online. We’ve been wanting to do just a flat <br />$30.00 dollar hunting license fee for a long time. It’s recently come up – OK, <br />look, if you’re gonna go after the Wildlife Revolving Fund – if that passes – <br />why not up the hunting license fee? So I’m just curious what the public would <br />think about something like that? <br /> <br />TN: If it passes with the Revolving Fund – the fees go up? <br /> <br />TL: You’re thinking that if redoing the Revolving Fund to give the commission – <br />the State Commission – access to the decision making of where those <br />monies are spent – that for the purposes that we would like and that is to <br />improve habitat primarily – you were talking about watering units and these <br />other things – those are the kinds of things that they are not going to do – the <br />State is not gonna do it and – not with their own money – and they’re not <br />going to do it with federal money ever – and, so, how do we get our own <br />money to do our own thing? That’s the question – where does that money <br />come from and... <br /> <br />TN: So the fees that are paid now – where does it go? <br /> <br />TL: A lot of it goes into equipment – a lot of it goes into bird hunting – none of it <br />goes into mammals. <br />11 <br /> <br /> <br />