2019 01-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 29, 2019 TN: I have a report and I’m gonna read it because I wrote it. On Tuesday, January 15, I travelled to Oahu to attend two meetings with the Legislature as a representative of our County GMAC. These meetings were about the introduction and support of our bills – also in support and attendance of the meetings were three commissioners from the State GMAC – the Chair, Laurie Buchanan of Molokai; Robert Kramer of Kauai and Stanley Ruidas of Lanai. The first meeting was at 1:00p with Representative Ryan Yamane and Yamane agreed to submit three of our four bills under the condition that we vowed to get behind the bills and work hard to gain more support and he made us vow and we did and one bill is designed to give teeth to the State GMAC in relationship to DLNR decision making because the State commission was formed but now they’re finding that they have no impact – no effectiveness with the DLNR, so the bill is to put their – put it to them – that they have to work with the State GMAC and another bill is to give the State GMAC say in allocation of the Wildlife Revolving Funds where they can have influence where that money goes and, hopefully, get that money to go... MH: Sorry. We need to pause the meeting until we get connection back. BKK: What are the number, Nani, do you have the numbers for the bills? NP: These were the bills for the House and then we have two set of bills also which are here – on the top here... \[Technical difficulties\] GH: Now I can hear you guys. BKK: Can you see us? GH: No. MH: I’m sorry, as long as he can hear us... BKK: Oh, can you answer your phone? MH: As long as he can hear us and we can hear him it’s fine... BKK: Grayson, we’re gonna move on with the meeting but as long as you hear us we can continue. Are you OK with that? GH: Yes, I am, thank you... BKK: OK. Thank you very much. Nani – please proceed. 26