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legislature recap Continued from page 4 > HB820, ALOHA Homes Program: Directs the Hawaiÿi Housing and Finance Development Corporation to formulate a plan for a program to provide low-cost condominium homes to be available for long-term leases to Hawaiÿi residents on state-owned lands near planned rail stations.
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for same-day voter registration, and offer assistance to voters with special needs. > SR146, ‘Olelo Hawai‘i Plan: In recognition of the U.N. declaration of 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages, requests that the ÿAha Pünana Leo bring together a coalition of Hawaiian-serving organizations and educational institutions to develop goals, strategies and measures for the next 35 years, to build on the successes of the ÿÖlelo Hawaiÿi revitalization movement and accelerate the normalization of ÿÖlelo Hawaiÿi.
> SB78, Charter School Pre-K Funding: In addition to establishing responsibilities of the executive office on early learning, Not Passed appropriates $4M over two fiscal > HB1326, Water years to keep open Rights: Would have 18 Pre-Kindergarallowed holders of ten classrooms in controversial monthcharter schools, most to-month revocable of which are in Hawaipermits to continue their ian-focused and Hawaiian ‘Ōhia. - Photo: long-term diversion of large Language Immersion ProJB Friday amounts of water, threatgram schools. ening the public’s interest in the valuable resource > HB1548, Rapid ‘Öhi‘a as well as Hawaiian practices Death Funding: Appropriates and subsistence-based lifestyles $750,000 for DLNR to study and dependent upon mauka-to-makai develop strategies to combat rapid stream flow. ÿöhiÿa death. > HB173/SB191/HB402, > HB1248, Vote by Mail: OHA’s Pro Rata Share of Public Establishes voting by mail state- Land Trust Revenue: HB173 and wide for future elections, starting SB191, companion measures prowith the 2020 election. OHA notes posed in OHA’s package, proposed that there will be voter service to codify and strengthen reporting centers in all counties to accept requirements for state agencies personal delivery of ballots, allow holding Public Land Trust lands
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and collecting Public Land Trust revenues to which Native Hawaiians (via OHA) are entitled a share. HB402, a measure offered by the Hawaiian Legislative Caucus, would have immediately updated the amount of revenues directed to Native Hawaiians as their constitutional fair share of the Public Land Trust proceeds. For more information on this issue, see www.oha. org/plt. > HB174/SB193, Hawaiian Health Practices Expert Membership on the State Council on Mental Health: Would have required a minimum number of seats on the Hawaiÿi State Mental Health Council to have experience with Native Hawaiian concepts of well-being, traditional healing and health practices and culturally-grounded mental health methodologies to guide the state in addressing the unique mental health challenges faced by the Hawaiian community including high rates of childhood abuse, suicidal ideation and depression. > HCR3/SCR2, Charter School Facilities Funding: An OHA package measure, would have requested the Charter School Commission to develop criteria for distribution of charter school facilities funding to highlight the state statute related to charter schools facilities funding, and move the state forward toward resolving the longstanding needs of the charter school community for adequate facilities funding.
OHA in the community Oha Maui ofFIce finds new home Starting July 15th, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Maui office will be moving to its new location at 737 Lower Main Street Suite B2, in Wailuku. For more questions on the move, please contact the Maui office by phone at (808) 873-3364. OHA’s Maui Community Resource Coordinators, Roy Newton and Thelma Shimaoka. Photo: John Matsuzaki
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Oha Board appoints Interim Chief Executive Officer By Office of Hawaiian Affairs
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he OHA Board has appointed OHA Chief Operating Officer Sylvia Hussey, Ed.D., as the agency’s interim chief executive officer (CEO) until a new CEO is hired. The Board of Trustees voted on the new appointment at a meeting on June 20, 2019. Dr. Hussey Sylvia Hussey begin as interim CEO on July 1, following the completion of the contract for former OHA CEO Kamana‘opono
serve our beneficiaries. We have initiated a number of substantial changes to the agency, including the development of a new Strategic Plan and a series of new internal governance and financial policies. Sylvia has played a key role in these projects and her familiarity with the agency’s operations will help provide a smooth transition between CEOs.” Dr. Hussey was hired as OHA’s chief operating officer (COO) in November 2018. She came to the agency with more than 30 years of experience in education administration, policy development and implementation, finance, operations, and information technology. She served in leadership positions at various institutions throughout
I thank my fellow Board members for coming together to timely appoint an interim CEO to ensure that our services to our community continue uninterrupted as we search for a new CEO.” — Colette Machado , OHA Chair Crabbe. The Board had already authorized the procurement of a professional consultant to assist in an executive search and recruitment of a new CEO. “I thank my fellow Board members for coming together to timely appoint an interim CEO to ensure that our services to our community continue uninterrupted as we search for a new CEO,” said OHA Chair Colette Machado. “OHA is in the middle of a critical period as we look to improve how we
the state, most recently as the executive director of the Native Hawaiian Education Council and previously was with Kamehameha Schools for more than a decade where she was the vice president of administration. An internal transition plan has been implemented to re-assign administrative responsibilities, including COO duties, to other staff to assist with operations until the Board appoints a new CEO.
