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SUMMARY:Meeting of the Board of Trustees - Office of Hawaiian Affairs
DESCRIPTION:Council: OHA Board of Trustees\n\nOfficial Notice: https://calendar.ehawaii.gov/calendar/meeting/77712/details.html\n\nMEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
\nPLACE: Remote Meeting via Interactive Conference Technology
\nThis meeting will be held virtually and may be viewed live via OHA’s website at www.oha.org/livestream or listened to by phone by dialing (213) 338-8477 and entering Webinar ID: 922 4983 8391. Additionally\, this meeting can be viewed live on ‘Ōlelo Community Media https://olelo.org/. A physical meeting location will be open to the public for those who wish to provide oral testimony or observe the meeting in person at: Office of Hawaiian Affairs\, 560 N. Nimitz Hwy.\, Suite 200\, Honolulu\, HI 96817.
\nAGENDA
\nI. Call to Order
\nII. Approval of Minutes
\n  A. April 16\, 2026
\n  B. April 24\, 2026
\n  C. April 30\, 2026
\nIII. New Business
\n  A. Presentation by the Institute for Policy Studies: “The Trust Cost of the Military in Hawaiʻi: A comprehensive analysis of the Economic\, Environmental\, Strategic\, and Social Impacts of the U.S. Military Presence in Hawaiʻi”. Presenter: Davis Price\, Senior Domestic Policy Strategist at the NDN Collective.
\n  B. Presentation by the ACLU of Hawaiʻi: “Stewardship at Stake: Legal Considerations for Protecting Hawaiʻi Lands from Government Overreach”. Presenter: Salmah Y. Rizvi\, Executive Director ACLU of Hawaiʻi
\n  C. Informational Briefing\, Update and Presentation on the OHA Military Lease Lands (MLL) Technical Advisors Group (TAG). Presenter: Chair Kaiali'i Kahele\, OHA Administration and Members of the TAG
\n  D. Discussion and update regarding the impacts of Hurricane Lala across the State of Hawaiʻi and the status of OHA’s response efforts\, including ongoing data gathering and assessment of impacts on Native Hawaiian beneficiaries and communities\; coordination with governmental\, nonprofit\, and community response partners\; and implementation of authorized emergency relief resources through OHA’s Lala Emergency Relief Fund\, including Program #1\, the Kōkua Kaʻū Relief Fund.
\n  E. Committee on Budget and Finance – August 26\, 2026
\n   1. Action Item BF #26-18: Approval of OHA institutional participation and funding not to exceed $75\,300 for a ten-person Hawaiʻi delegation to the International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development (INIHKD) – Reclaiming Indigenous Ecologies of Love for Future Generations (RIEL) Conference in Rarotonga\, Cook Islands\, November 9–13\, 2026.
\n   2. Action Item BF #26-19: Authorize the release of Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 funds totaling $442\,600 for continued implementation of OHA’s Kūlana ʻĀina Food Systems & Workforce Program pursuant to the FY 26–27 Biennium Budget.
\nIV. Executive Session§
\n A. Approval of Executive Session Minutes
\n  1. February 5\, 2026
\n  2. March 19\, 2026
\n B. Legal Matters. Discussion and possible Board action regarding an employment-related claim arising from an OHA recruitment and selection process\, including potential settlement. The Board anticipates convening in executive session pursuant to HRS § 92-5(a)(4) to consult with its legal counsel regarding the Board’s powers\, duties\, privileges\, immunities\, and liabilities concerning the matter.
\nV. New Business – Continued
\n F. Legal Matters. Discussion and possible Board action regarding non-privileged matters relating to an employment-related claim arising from an OHA recruitment and selection process\, including potential settlement.
\nVI. Community Concerns and Celebrations
\nVII. Announcements
\nVIII. Adjournment
\nIf you need an auxiliary aid/service or other accommodation due to a disability\, please contact Keola Fong at (808) 626-5484 or by email at keolaf@oha.org as soon as possible. Requests made as early as possible have a greater likelihood of being fulfilled. Upon request\, this notice is available in alternate/accessible formats.
\nIn the event that the livestream public broadcast is interrupted and cannot be restored\, the meeting may continue as audio-only through the phone number and Webinar ID provided at the beginning of this agenda. Meeting recordings will be made available on OHA’s website https://www.oha.org/about/leadership/board-of-trustees/ as soon as practicable after the meeting.
\nPublic Testimony will be called for each agenda item and must be limited to matters listed on the meeting agenda. Community Concerns and Celebrations is not limited to matters listed on the meeting agenda. Hawai‘i Revised Statutes\, Chapter 92\, prohibits Board members from discussing or taking action on matters not listed on the meeting agenda
\nThe board packet will be available for the public to inspect at OHA’s main office located at 560 N. Nimitz Hwy.\, Suite 200\, Honolulu\, HI 96817\, no later than three full business days before the meeting. The board packet will also be made available on OHA’s website\, https://www.oha.org/bot as soon as practicable thereafter.
\n§ Notice: This portion of the meeting will be closed pursuant to HRS § 92-5.
\nTestimony can be provided to the Board of Trustees either as: (1) written testimony or (2) live\, oral testimony online\, by telephone\, or at the physical meeting location during the remote meeting.
\n(1) Persons wishing to provide written testimony on items listed on the agenda should submit testimony via email to botmeetings@oha.org or via postal mail to Office of Hawaiian Affairs\, Attn: Board of Trustees Meeting Testimony\, 560 N. Nimitz Hwy.\, Suite 200\, Honolulu\, HI 96817. Testimony is requested to be received at least twenty-four hours prior to the
\nscheduled meeting to allow board members with sufficient time to review the testimony before the meeting. All written testimony will be posted on OHA’s meeting website. Please omit or redact any personal information (e.g.\, name\, email address\, phone number\, home address\, or materials) that you do not want to be disclosed publicly online.
\n(2) Persons wishing to provide oral testimony online during the remote meeting\, please click on the link below:
\nhttps://zoom.us/j/92249838391
\nTo provide oral testimony online\, you will need:
\n(1) a computer or mobile device to connect to the remote meeting\;
\n(2) internet access\; and
\n(3) a microphone to provide oral testimony.
\nPersons wishing to provide oral testimony by telephone during the remote meeting may dial the phone number listed at the beginning of this agenda and enter the corresponding Webinar ID. Telephone participants will be able to provide oral testimony during the meeting.
\nPersons wishing to provide oral testimony at the physical meeting location can sign up the day of the meeting at the physical meeting location.
\nIf you willfully disrupt the meeting\, support staff will remove you from the Zoom meeting. You can continue to view the remainder of the meeting on the livestream or by telephone\, as provided at the beginning of this agenda.
\nOral testimony online\, by telephone or at a physical meeting location will be limited to five (5) minutes
LOCATION:virtual meeting can be viewed and observed via livestream on OHA’s website at www.oha.org/livestream or in-person at 560 N. Nimitz Hwy.\, Suite 200\, Honolulu\, HI 96817.
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