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2008 State of OHA and the Native Hawaiian Community
Written by Public Information Office
Friday, 05 December 2008
OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS
State of OHA and the
Native Hawaiian Community
Remarks of Trustee Haunani Apoliona, MSW
Chairperson, Board of Trustees
Friday, December 5, 2008, 11:00 a.m.
Central Union Church
Aloha, e nā ʻōiwi ʻōlino mai Hawaiʻi a Niʻihau a puni ke ao
mālamalama. Aloha e nā kūpuna a me nā 'ōpio. Aloha e nā
kama'āina a me nā malihini kekahi. Aloha nō kākou a pau
loa. Aloha.
On behalf of the OHA Board of Trustees and our staff from Hawaiʻi to
Washington D.C., I am pleased to welcome all of you once again to the
State of OHA and the Native Hawaiian community. This 2008 address
to the community marks the 6th year of our annual State of OHA
gathering. I thank you for your presence today, here at Central Union
Church and across this brilliant world.
Let me start with the difficult news. The year 2008 was a
challenging one at OHA. I would like to talk about three streets:
South Beretania Street, Wall Street, and the "dark" street.
On South Beretania Street, the ceded
lands revenue settlement worked on for nearly four years was not
approved by the Hawaiʻi State Senate in 2008. The cash and land payment
was put off and the Legislature adjourned leaving resolution of the
payment for "disputed" income and proceeds from the Public Land Trust
for the 2009 Legislative Session. We are hopeful.
On Wall Street,
OHA suffered as well from a decrease this past year in OHA's investment
portfolio of $120 million due mostly to the decline in the value of
investments worldwide as financial markets collapsed and investors
attempted to adjust. This economic downturn, local and worldwide, has
and is still affecting all personal and institutional investment
portfolios. The Hawaiʻi Employee's Retirement System, Kamehameha
Schools investments, and Union portfolios have been impacted as well as
all business segments that affect our livelihood here in Hawaiʻi.
On the "dark" street,
2008 marked the year when "dirty politics" — as played out in other
local, state and federal elections — sadly emerged and sought allies in
OHA's election. In media, print and on internet platforms, there were
untruthful attacks targeting OHA as an organization, launched by
misinformed but opportunistic individuals.
There were personal attacks targeted at individual OHA employees and trustees,
which were equally untrue. By our Hawaiian cultural standards, we would
measure such actions as distasteful and offensive.
In affirming that OHA is conducting its business lawfully and with
documented accountability for its actions, we want to draw your
attention to OHA's website (www.oha.org) and a side bar entitled
"Setting the Record Straight."
Irresponsible statements are disarmed by facts, and liars are disabled by truth.
OHA's website provides you substantive information and a matrix that
will enable you to sort out fact from fiction in a timely manner.
Even with these unfortunate events and despite the critics and
difficult times, we have much to celebrate, as we work hard to improve
upon our efforts so that progress continues.
The community affirmed OHA's recognizable progress through the strong
vote of confidence the Hawaiʻi electorate provided to incumbent Trustee
candidates on November 4.
The voice of the electorate acknowledged OHA Trustees for their work in
making prudent, sometimes bold, many times difficult, decisions that,
over the long term, will prove substantive and long-lasting in terms of
stabilizing the future for Native Hawaiians within the context of
Hawaiʻi's multicultural environment.
Here are some of OHA's key accomplishments in 2008:
OHA advocated and secured passage of a property tax
exemption for kuleana landholders on Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi island, and Kauaʻi,
and will continue to work on an exemption for Maui kuleana landholders.
OHA's Board approved an "unprecedented" 30-year, $3 million annual
grant to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to trigger a $100
million bond for homestead development and improvements across the
State of Hawaiʻi which will result in placing thousands more native
Hawaiians in homes on Hawaiian land.
OHA took an active role with the Papahānaumokuākea Monument in the
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. As a member of the Monument
Management Board, through our staff, OHA helped to draft the management
plan and application to have Papahānaumokuākea named to the United
Nations' World Heritage List.
OHA, through two of its LLCs, Hiʻilei and Hiʻipaka, assumed day-to-day
management of Waimea Valley in February. We held a grand opening
for state legislators and the public in August, and restored the Hale O
Lono heiau at the Valley entrance, which had been inactive and in
disrepair for many years. Recent rains and flooding have impacted
Waimea, and repairs and restoration are underway.
OHA, working with Native Hawaiians, achieved phenomenal success with
our restructured Mālama Loan program in partnership with the federal
government and First Hawaiian Bank, approving more than 500 loans and
injecting more than $11 million into Hawaiʻi's economic engine.
Applying the "multiplier effect," economists say this amounts to
approximately $21 million of economic activity infused into the Hawaiʻi
economy.
OHA recently received approval from the Defense Logistics Agency of the
federal Department of Defense to establish Hawaiʻi's first "PTAC,"
Procurement Technical Assistance Center. OHA's partners include the
University of Hawaiʻi College of Business and the William S. Richardson
School of Law. OHA's PTAC staff will provide procurement
technical assistance to help small businesses get contracts to sell
their goods and services to the federal, state, and county governments.
In Community Investment, most significantly, OHA distributed more than
$18 million in grants to the Hawaiian community, the largest amount
ever disbursed in 30 years of OHA's history.
Financial assistance included:
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$2.3 million for the homeless;
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$10.2 million for education;
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$626,000 for health;
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$1.1 million for economic development;
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$800,000 for housing;
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$1.6 million for the protection of native rights and culture;
and much more. The details are provided in OHA's Grants Report being released today.
In terms of the near future --
Our economic development department is continuing to explore the
shipping of liquified natural gas from Alaska to Hawaiʻi for low-cost,
environmentally sound alternatives to Hawaiʻi's dependence on oil.
We are embarking on a strategic planning process, to address the next
decade, which will invite community input and help to set OHA's
priorities for the coming years.
As a first step toward resolving long-standing differences with the
military involving responsible stewardship and expectations of
responsible stewards on Hawaiian lands, OHA is positioned for greater
access to military sites and first-hand look at important cultural
resources that would not otherwise be accessible to the general public,
to monitor and intervene, when necessary, for protection of traditional
and cultural sites by agreed conditions in the recent settlement of OHA v. Gates.
As we look toward the horizon before us, what should OHA and the Hawaiian community be envisioning and doing for the long-term?
The results of the Presidential and Congressional elections open a
window of opportunity for Native Hawaiian initiatives and Hawaiʻi
initiatives.
Based on previous expressed support for the Akaka bill by
President-Elect Obama, a smoother and timely passage and enactment of
the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act is anticipated.
No more waiting time to ensure that Native Hawaiians have similar
recognition and legal protection as the other two indigenous groups in
the U.S., American Indians and Alaska Natives.
We often hear proclamations from community, political, and business
leaders that Hawaiʻi has so much to offer the world – our aloha spirit,
our island values, our appreciation of multiple cultures, and lessons
from our collective ancestors.
A Divine Hand, and our ancestors, indeed have guided this moment for
Hawaiʻi and the Spirit of Hawaiʻi to be one with the 44th President of
the United States born and raised in these islands.
With equal anticipation all of Hawaiʻi awaits impending Sainthood to be
declared for Father Damien and Mother Marianne Cope — humble,
compassionate servants for the many who struggled to survive with
dignity on the rugged and remote Kalawao peninsula on the island of
Molokaʻi.
Both Father Damien and Mother Marianne led others in commitment and
service in caring for the "shunned," those claimed by Hansen's Disease,
and now rise as two Saints destined for worldwide recognition, one with
the Spirit of Hawaiʻi.
This humanity affirms what is very special about Hawaiʻi and our island home.
Consider further and particularly that Hawaiʻi and its "specialness" is
rooted in Hawaiian tradition and values, culture and history
millennia-old; and imagine what we, together, in collective effort, can
accomplish.
In Washington, D.C., the statue of Kamehameha, once in a dark corner of
Statuary Hall in the Rotunda of the Capitol, now stands prominently
under a skylight open to the heavens in Emancipation Hall in the new
Capitol Visitors Center that opened to the public just 3 days ago on
December 2.
In 2003, the Hawaiian Benevolent Societies (the ʻAhahui), the Hawaiʻi
Congressional delegation, the Ke Aliʻi Makaʻainānā Hawaiian Civic Club
and OHA served as catalysts urging that this statue be
relocated to a more appropriate venue.
Beginning in 2003, a collective effort began and the partnership with
the Washington D.C. Capitol Architect culminated this September in
relocating Kamehameha to where he now stands — beneath the heavens in a
place of honor, lighting the way for Hawaiʻi and Hawaiian culture.
Then we have the Hawaiʻi Commemorative Quarter, the Kamehameha Coin,
part of the collection of coins memorializing each of the 50 states.
Kamehameha's arms are outstretched to all the islands with the
meaningful message, Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono (The life of
the land is perpetuated in righteousness). This coin is now
established and circulating around the United States and the world with
this message of pono.
The Commemorative Quarter is a powerful voice for Native Hawaiians and
all of Hawaiʻi as it further focuses on Kamehameha an indigenous,
native leader and bears witness to his leadership and unification in
1810 of these islands into one governance that survived for nearly 85
years.
Although Queen Liliʻuokalani's government ended in 1893 and Hawaiʻi was
annexed in 1898, history notes that throughout the 1900s, there were
many efforts by other Native Hawaiian leaders to improve and stabilize
the social economic, political, and cultural condition of Native
Hawaiians.
These efforts included establishment of the Aliʻi Trusts, the Hawaiian
Civic Club movement, the ʻAhahui (Hawaiian Benevolent Societies), the
Hawaiian Homes Commission, OHA , organizations of the Hawaiian Service
Institutions and Agencies, other Hawaiian councils and associations,
federal programs, and the 1993 Apology Bill -- to mention only a few.
Today, in our lifetime, Hawaiian governance guided by Native Hawaiian
leadership is at the threshold, poised to re-emerge, poised to
re-organize with passage of the Native Hawaiian Government
Reorganization Act (the Akaka Bill) as an option.
Reconciliation with Native Hawaiians by the United States, as called
for by the 1993 Apology Bill, continues to evolve along its grueling
but progressive path, supported by this Public Law acknowledgement that
the indigenous Hawaiian people never relinquished their claims to their
national lands — the lands that we today call the ceded lands.
In the same moment, Native Hawaiians have been edged to the brink of
battle in the United States Supreme Court that could "vacate" the
unanimous decision by the Hawaiʻi State Supreme Court which orders "an
injunction against the plaintiffs - the State - from "selling or or
otherwise transferring to third parties (1) the Leialiʻi parcel and 2)
any other ceded lands from the public lands trust until the claims of
the Native Hawaiians to the ceded lands have been resolved".
In two years, we will mark 200 years since Kamehameha's bold unification and formation of Hawaiian governance.
Will we mark 2010 with decisive progress in Hawaiian governance and
management over Hawaiian assets? Or will we be "stuck" in self-service,
dissention, and unrealistic expectation as the seas of political and
economic reality swirl in an undertow around us?
Will the U.S. Supreme Court have provided cover for the State to
diminish these land assets — Hawaiian national lands — before
reconciliation is done? Will our indecisiveness and division among
Native Hawaiians make us fail? And if we fail, what do we tell our
children?
It is time for unified effort, for Native Hawaiians to write history
for the next 200 years with even greater success and achievement by
bringing the best of our culture and its values into the present — use
our deep values of aloha and lōkahi to create a dignified future while
respecting our unique multi-cultural, diverse community.
The bottom line is this: if we want a transformation in
self-determination and self-governance, Native Hawaiians must be the
ones to make it happen and then lead it. No one will do it for
us.
In the process, we can expect to be attacked by well-organized, big
money entities. They are already mobilizing against indigenous
people and minorities across the continent.
Our best defense is to be a unified, informed community that works
from facts and not falsehoods. The truth of our history and who
we are as a people will prevail if we are pono in all we do.
Let us memorialize the milestone of Kamehameha's leadership 200 years
ago as we lay the groundwork for the next 200 years of inspirational
Hawaiian leadership.
Let us find and encourage Hawaiian leaders who are informed,
compassionate, humble, hardworking, courageous, and ethical, committed
to service, not self-service.
Let us move forward … unified, focused and disciplined … guided by
Hawaiian values, spirituality and lōkahi … to strengthen Native
Hawaiians and through that effiort … all of Hawaiʻi nei.
Imua e nā pokiʻi a inu i ka wai ʻawaʻawa ʻaʻohe hope e hoʻi mai ai.
Pūpūkahi i holomua.
Mahalo and aloha.
OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS
Key Activities, Funding & Accomplishments in 2008
Supplement to the "State of OHA and the Native Hawaiian Community" Address
Beneficiary Inquiries
•Responded to 31,214 beneficiary inquiries through walk-ins, telephone calls, and e-mail requests
Advocacy at the Federal, State and County Levels
• Continued to seek passage of the Native Hawaiian Government
Reorganization Act, also known as the Akaka Bill, and other measures
important to Native Hawaiians.
• Worked to prevent elimination of Native Hawaiians from existing U.S. policy and law.
• Submitted testimony in support of the small business act and Kalaupapa Memorial.
• Advised and assisted Department of Defense in development of a draft
Native Hawaiian Consultation protocol and cultural communications
training.
• Educated Senate Small Business and House Financial Services Committees on retaining Hawaiians in reauthorization bills.
• Promoted and protected Native American political status,
entitlements, and expressions of self-determination of the indigenous,
native, aboriginal people whose ancestors lived and exercised
sovereignty in the Hawaiian archipelago that later became part of the
United States.
• Maintained and expanded a network of allies supporting Native
Hawaiian issues at the national level by hosting or sponsoring more
than 30 events and attending more than 50 organizational meetings and
events.
• Lobbied successfully at county councils for passage of ordinances to
establish real property tax exemptions on kuleana land on Hawaiʻi
island and Kauaʻi.
• Reviewed 6,737 proposed bills and resolutions to the State
Legislature, tracked 896 bills and resolutions, and submitted testimony
on 345 bills and resolutions.
• Introduced 31 bills relating to Hawaiian issues including:
• Settlement of back due ceded land revenues
• Establishment of a grandparent preference for out-of-home placement of children
• Establishment of the Haʻikū Valley Cultural Preserve Commission
• Membership of Native Hawaiians on boards and commissions
• Held a Native Hawaiian Think Tank and stakeholders meeting with
sister organizations and the Aliʻi Trusts to gather input on
legislative priorities.
• Sponsored two mayoral debates, one for the primary election of
Honolulu candidates and the other for the general election of
candidates for Honolulu, Kauaʻi, and Hawaiʻi island.
Nation-Building
• Continued to seek passage of the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, also known as the Akaka Bill.
• Worked with legal advisors, Hawaiʻi's congressional delegation and
key staff, congressional co-sponsors, American Indians, Alaska Natives,
various Pacific and Asian Pacific American organizations and an array
of civil rights organizations to urge passage of the Akaka Bill.
• Hosted dozens of Native Hawaiians and other visitors in Washington
D.C. to raise awareness of Native Hawaiian issues, especially the Akaka
Bill, and to increase the visibility of OHA's D.C. office.
• Briefed thousands of allies on the status of the Akaka Bill and presented at local and national meetings and conventions.
• Continued to register Native Hawaiians in Kau Inoa with registrations now totaling 97,000.
• Conducted registration at 127 community events.
• Produced and broadcast four new celebrity testimonial television spots.
• Hosted 9 coffee hours.
• Awarded 127 small grants to community groups and individuals to conduct Kau Inoa registration.
• Continuing to work with shopping centers and store managers to permit Kau Inoa registration at their sites.
• Continuing to work with the Department of Health, Department of
Hawaiian Home Lands, and Kamehameha Schools to obtain their assistance
with ancestry verification of registrants.
• Convened a planning committee to organize a summit consultation with
sovereignty organizations to better understand the positions and claims
of each group.
Protection of Native Rights & Culture
• Reviewed 1,050 requests for input and commented on 712 requests
relating to land development and land use changes, environmental review
documents, consultations, and disputes involving the Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and other cultural
issues.
• Tracked over 300 pieces of legislation in the 2008 session, provided
testimony, and participated in the special session on Hawaiʻi
Superferry.
• Continued to work with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
to develop a Department of Defense-Native Hawaiian Consultation
Protocol to increase meaningful consultation with Native Hawaiians
across branches of the military in Hawaiʻi.
• Came to agreement with the U.S. Army on Stryker litigation and protection of Hawaiian cultural sites.
• Funded legal assistance for beneficiaries through Native Hawaiian
Legal Corporation and alternate law firms in the amount of $1.1 million.
• Developed a plan that mitigates adverse impacts resulting from H-3
Freeway, which will support design and implementation of projects for
cultural preservation in Hālawa Valley and the return of taro loʻi to
the hillside along H-3 and Likelike Highway.
• Continued with litigation for restoration of streamflows of Nā Wai ʻEhā on Maui.
• Represented OHA at a conference on ocean and coastal resource
management in Spain, delivering a presentation on the Pāpōhaku Dunes
Management Plan.
• Maintained a kuleana lands database to assist in protecting family lands and applying for kuleana land tax exemptions.
• Continued to develop the Wahi Pana Database, a comprehensive listing of historical and culturally significant areas.
• Developed a database of cultural practitioners and resources.
• Represented OHA at the Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums Conference.
• Continued to use GIS mapping expertise and equipment to assist in cases on Maui, Molokaʻi, and Oʻahu.
• Engaged vigorously in protecting iwi kūpuna and burial sites in more than 20 cases across Hawaiʻi and the Continental U.S.
• Continued to work with organizations and individuals to ensure the
protection of more than 20 culturally significant sites and kuleana
lands, trail access, quiet-title land litigation, exercise of
traditional and customary practices, and protection of the traditional
cultural landscape and wahi kūpuna (ancestral places).
• Assisted the Native Hawaiian Historic Preservation Council, a community advisory group to the Board of Trustees.
• Assisted in coordinating a conference to discuss and identify the
most endangered Native Hawaiian cultural traditions, practices, and
rights.
• Participated in meetings of state and local boards, commissions, and councils and assisted with legislative issues.
Economic Development
• Provided more than 500 business loans totaling $11.5 million to
Native Hawaiian businesses through the Mālama Loan program in
partnership with the federal Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
and First Hawaiian Bank.
• Provided 38 personal loans totaling $197,000 to beneficiaries through OHA's Micro Loan program.
• Created Hawaiʻi's first Procurement Technical Assistance Center
(PTAC) with co-funding from the federal Defense Logistics Agency to
assist small businesses in obtaining contracts to sell their goods and
services to federal, state, and county governments.
• Provided community-based economic development (CBED) grants to 13 organizations totaling $350,000.
• Facilitated the development of Pacific Network TV (PNTV), an
internet-based TV station focusing on Hawaiian issues and concerns.
• Facilitated the acquisition of Makaweli Poi and creation of Hiʻipoi LLC for management of the poi mill.
• Provided training and technical assistance to more than 83 Native Hawaiian-owned businesses.
• Investigated the economic benefits of shipping natural gas from
Alaska to Hawaiʻi for low-cost alternatives to Hawaiʻi's dependence on
oil.
Education
• Continued third-year funding in the amount of $2.2 million to
Hawaiian culture-based charter schools, supporting 15 public start-up
and conversion schools.
• Facilitated early childhood education tuition assistance awards for
96 families in communities on Molokaʻi, Maui, Hawaiʻi, Kauaʻi, and
Oʻahu.
• Provided $500,000 in higher education scholarships assisting 279 Native Hawaiian college students.
• Provided grants and support in the amount of $408,900 to three
programs in early childhood education for scholarships for
preschoolers, publication of standards and guidelines for early
childhood education providers, and delivery of literacy services for
homeless keiki.
• Provided grants and support in the amount of $4.5 million to 17
programs and initiatives for K-12 level of education including a
leadership training initiative, programs for gifted and talented Native
Hawaiian keiki, services for keiki with special needs and learning
disabilities, college prep and financial workshops, career planning,
mentoring for at-risk keiki, and supplemental programs in DOE schools.
• Provided grants and support in the amount of $2.3 million to 18
programs in higher education and adult education including indigenous
teacher education and curriculum development, support for Masters
Degree candidates working in Native Hawaiian-serving agencies, GED
preparation and support for at-risk youth and adults, support for
current and future Native Hawaiian law students, support for increased
success of Native Hawaiians in Hawaiʻi's community colleges, and
programs for incarcerated Native Hawaiians.
Housing
• Approved $3 million per year for 30 years, for a total of $90
million, to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to assist with
infrastructure and development costs.
• Approved $1.5 million grant to Hawaiʻi Habitat for Humanity for a
5-year program assisting 15 Native Hawaiian first-time buyers with up
to $20,000 matching funds for a home loan.
• Provided $500,000 to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for HOAP, a homeownership assistance program.
• Completed a housing plan and strategy to help guide OHA's housing decisions in coming years.
Health
• Provided funding to 13 community organizations totaling $426,000 to
support programs on diabetes, asthma, neonatal care, early screening,
nutrition, first aid training, and long-term car services for kūpuna.
• Provided follow-up funding for ʻAha Kāne 2006 to continue its work in
assessing male health and promoting positive health outcomes.
• Provided funding to American Red Cross to train Native Hawaiians as nurse aides.
• Sat as a Board member of Papa Ola Lōkahi to assist in increasing the
capacity of the five Native Hawaiian health systems and delivery of
healthcare services at their 29 clinics.
• Provided funding to increase the capacity of the 5 health systems and
29 clinics with billing, statewide health planning, Medicaid, Medicare,
and other state programs.
Human Services
• Funded Alu Like's Multi-Service Project in the amount of $700,000 to
assist 8,600 Native Hawaiians with emergencies by providing
information, referrals, case management, emergency financial
assistance, financial literacy services, and Individual Development
Accounts (IDA).
• Hosted ʻAha Kūpuna conference.
• Worked with homeless coalitions and alliances to address problems
faced by the homeless, and funded Kahikolu ʻOhana Hale o Waiʻanae in
the amount of $1.2 million to provide housing and on-site services to
homeless on the Waiʻanae coast.
• Provided $300,000 to Nā Maka Walu, a program providing services for incarcerated and homeless populations.
• Provided $500,000 to Hale Kipa for construction of a support center and residential shelter.
• Provided $1.2 million in funding to 21 programs assisting kūpuna, the
disabled, the homeless, the incarcerated, persons with substance abuse
problems, and youth at risk.
• Participated in the Governor's Mental Health Transformation Working Group (TWG) to transform services to the mentally ill.
Land Acquisition & Management
• Assumed day-to-day management of Waimea Valley, implemented Hawaiian
cultural training for Waimea employees, and restored Hale o Lono heiau.
• Facilitated donation of small parcel in Waimea Valley from Maui Holdings to Hiʻipaka LLC.
• Analyzed properties for Public Land Trust past-due settlement and worked on proposal to 2008 Legislature.
• Held 51 public meetings to gather community input and answer questions on the Public Land Trust past-due settlement.
• Prepared legislative report pursuant to SCR 49 on the Public Land Trust proposal.
• Participated in Act 178 meetings to create a uniform statewide reporting system for calculating ceded land revenue due to OHA.
• Conducted feasibility analyses for several proposed acquisitions, exchanges, and donations.
• Hosted radio programs and delivered over 20 presentations on
traditional Hawaiian land management practices, a Hawaiian sense of
place, land trusts, land conservation, and water issues.
Grant Making
• Conducted 26 grant workshops statewide, reaching over 650
stakeholders seeking funding and resulting in 124 grant applications.
• Supported 28 community events totaling $380,000.
• Facilitated grant making for all divisions with grants and commitments totaling $18 million.
• Continuing to create grants database that will allow quicker and more
accurate reporting on OHA's grant making from 2005 forward.
Communication with the Hawaiian Community & the Community at Large
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Held 51 public meetings to gather community input and answer questions on Public Land Trust past-due settlement.
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Produced "Ceded Lands: The People's Legacy," a live one-hour primetime broadcast on KITV.
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Produced 24 Hoʻoulu Lāhui Aloha Roundtable television forums for ʻōlelo broadcasting.
• Expanded OHA's morning radio talk-show Nā ʻōiwi ʻōlino to broadcast
on the neighbor islands on both AM and FM radio stations and once a
week in Las Vegas.
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Produced two remote broadcasts of OHA's morning radio talk-show on Maui and Hawaiʻi island.
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Completed major overhaul of OHA website with new sections for programmatic updates and reports.
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Published 12 issues of Ka Wai Ola, OHA's monthly newspaper with a circulation of 60,000.
• Broadcast informational advertisements on major television events:
Merrie Monarch Hula Festival, Kamehameha Schools Song Contest, Nā Hōkū
Hanohano Awards, and Queen Liliʻuokalani Keiki Hula Competition.
• Launched the Community Consultative Network (CCN) to bring together
OHA's various communication vehicles and add videoconferencing
capability.
Improvements to Internal Operations
• Developed Fiscal Procedures Manual outlining major fiscal processes
and procedures, planning, budgeting, general accounting, and reporting.
• Established a custom SharePoint system for quicker communication and greater efficiency of all departments.
• Conducted position analyses and salary studies to evaluate appropriateness of assignments and compensation.
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