2018-01-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 29, 2018 Puuanahulu project until it was delayed – to have a curatorship agreement – what that is, is where the Board of Land and Natural Resources can grant a 501 c 3 non-profit organization kind of the permission or the authorization ton behalf of the Department to conduct and manage and organize the activity of that particular thing. For example, like at a unused state park for a child care center or something like that – this would be for a shooting range so there is a precedent of the Board having approved such an agreement with On Target for the Puuanahulu thing when it is developed so that’s kind of what we would look for and have in mind with any other things like the Mile Marker 16. Sorry to interrupt. JO: No, that sounds like a good road map for the clubs to pursue. BM: Thank you. RF: And so to go back to your question of what do we envision up there? It’s really up to folks that have more experience – physically, you can look at the location and say you’re not gonna put 100 shooting stations in there – but certainly maybe 10-15 shooting stations – a little bit of cover – a little comfort stations for folks – certainly some trash cans to police the area... DY: So you’re saying you’re looking at a private – I hate to use this term but a private-public partnership? RF: That’s one option... DY: And what’s another option? Or could it be totally public? BM: Sure. That’s another option but I think we need to keep in mind our intention here is this is a work in progress – progressively set-up thing for development – it’s not gonna open as a full-on first class shooting range because that’s not possible at this point – but shooting has been going on – there are complications when certain caliber weapons that are not authorized for hunting are used and we get all kinds of issues – we don’t want to put our enforcement officers in a position of having to police something that we feel may not be necessarily reasonable but this is a hunting area – this activity has been going on so how our best shot at this point in consultation with people like Tom and others was why don’t we go ahead and see if we can get something started on this island that resembles a safe, public shooting range and so the Department felt like we’d want to support an effort to have something started rather than delay everything again. And that’s our intention. Now if that intention is ill-advised on your part – feel free to let us know and we can back off and dump this too. Thank you. TL: When you talk about calibers – when we went to the governor four years ago when he first got elected –we asked him about mile marker 16 and one of the 6