2018-09-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – September 24, 2018 Charter Commission is requesting is that you look at section 6-9.3 which is the Game Management Advisory Commission – and basically it talks about, you know, how many members you’re supposed to have and what your purpose is and all that kind of stuff and what they’re actually – actually every commission in the County is how you would either, you know, if you have suggestions for them on how you would like to change it – if there are any – and this isn’t for this year’s ballot – this is for the 2020 ballot. So if you guys want to go home and read the Charter section – it’s not very long – probably about 2 paragraphs and then next meeting you guys can come back with if you have ideas and then Tom can re-send his email and then you can come back and see if you guys have any ideas of if you want it - leave it as it is – you like it – or if you want to add or amend – but, again, these are just suggestions because the Charter Commission at the end of the day has the power to, you know, create the amendments or not to be put on the ballot, so, that’s the overview of what the Charter Commission is doing. Any questions about that? TL: Nani has some comments – want to bring those up now or do you want to wait till next meeting? NP: I could comment on it. I thought at first I was really happy with the way our charter is – but then after thinking about it for a while there’s something I would like to change about it and I’d just like to throw it out there – that as far as the qualities of the commissioners that we have – I’d like it to be changed or include that commissioners need to be commited to the perpetuation of ouir natural resources as a sustainable and renewable resource – make that more specific as a qualities of the commissioners because the way it is it isn’t clear about that so... I suppose it’s premature to make a motion about it but maybe next meeting – I’d like to make a motion we add that – so maybe if anyone else has something to bounce off of it or tweak it in some way... TL: Yeah, that and there’s the other thing, too, it’s, there’s been suggestions that should this Charter Commission, I’m sorry, should our Commission have at- large members or a net-large membership. Right now we’re pretty unique in that we represent each of the Council Districts so we service those areas that we’re familiar with, generally speaking. But there are people that think that, you know, maybe we should be or have more of an at-large position as well, so that we don’t have vacancies like we did – these are all thoughts and we don’t mind hearing from the public on this too, you know, what would you like to see as far as your commissioners here, and, again, are we doing a good job and how can we do it better, that’s the main thing and how do we get our word out. OK. So we will defer this until our next meeting in November. BK: Ah, Chair, I have a question. This is Kalei. Is there a rough timeline that it’s needed by 2020? 23