Date:

Thursday, 05/01/2025

Start Time:

10:00 AM

Place:

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.

Agenda

MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

DATE: Thursday, May 1, 2025

TIME: 10:00 A.M.

PLACE: Remote Meeting via Interactive Conference Technology

Viewable at www.oha.org/livestream Or

Listen by phone: (213) 338-8477, Webinar ID: 895 5433 0893

This virtual meeting can be viewed and observed via livestream on OHA’s website at www.oha.org/livestream

or listen by phone using the call-in information above. A physical meeting location, open to members of the public who would like to provide oral testimony or view the virtual meeting, will be available at 560 N. Nimitz Hwy., Suite 200, Honolulu, HI 96817.

AGENDA

I. Call to Order

II. New Business

  A. John A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Native Hawaiian Health - Presentation

  B. Status of OHA Activities: Ka Pouhana/CEO and Administration’s Update on OHA’s activities.*

    1.Update on OHA’s participation at the Hawaii State Legislation Job Fair held on Friday, March 28, 2025, and Operation Hire Hawaii (OHHI) Job Fair held on Friday,        April  11th and Saturday, April 12, 2025.

  C. Committee on Beneficiary Advocacy and Empowerment – April 30, 2025

    1. 2025 OHA State Legislative Package – Matrix 1*

    2. 2025 Legislature: OHA Position on Bills Naming OHA – Matrix 2*

    3. 2025 Legislature: OHA Position on Bills Affecting the Public Land Trust – Matrix 3*

    4. 2025 Legislature: OHA Position on Bills Affecting HRS Chapter 6E (Iwi Kūpuna)-Matrix 9*

  D. Committee on Budget and Finance – April 23, 2025

    1. Action Item BF #25-28: Approval of OHA funding for a Hoʻākoakoa Lāhui Event Sponsorship to Hāna Arts for the 2025 Mei Mele: Hāna Hoʻolauleʻa Series Event on May 2- 16, 2025, in the amount of $5,000.*

    2. Action Item BF #25-29: Approval of OHA funding for a Hoʻākoakoa Lāhui Event Sponsorship to The Waipā Foundation for the 2025 Waipā 'Āina Festival on May 3, 2025, in the amount of $4,000.*

    3. Action Item BF #25-30: Approval of OHA funding for a Hoʻākoakoa Lāhui Event Sponsorship to Hui Mākua Pūnana Leo o Molokaʻi for the Hoʻomau Molokaʻi 2025 Event on May 3, 2025, in the amount of $14,500.*

    4. Action Item BF #25-31: Approval of OHA funding for a Hoʻākoakoa Lāhui Event Sponsorship to ECOH Education Foundation for the Prince Kūhiō Film Festival on May 3, 2025, in the amount of $10,000.*

    5. Action Item BF #25-32: Approval of OHA funding for a Hoʻākoakoa Lāhui Event Sponsorship to the Homestead Community Development Corporation for the 2025 Hawaiian Homelands Sovereignty Conference Event on June 2-4, 2025, in the amount of $15,000.*

  E. Committee on Investment Land and Management

    1. Action Item ILM #25-07: Approval of OHA Hawaiʻi Real Estate Strategic Plan (strategies for OHA’s ownership, management, and decision making over investment and non-investment real estate).* 2nd reading

III. Community Concerns and Celebrations

IV. Announcements

V. Adjournment

If you need an auxiliary aid/service or other accommodation due to a disability, please contact Everett Ohta at (808) 594-1988 or by email at everetto@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.

In 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.

Public 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.

* Document(s) associated with this agenda item are anticipated to be included in the board packet for this meeting. The 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, OHA’s neighbor

island offices, and on OHA’s website https://www.oha.org/bot no later than two business days before the meeting. The 72 Hour rule, pursuant to OHA BOT Operations Manual, Section 49, shall be waived for distribution of new committee materials.

§ Notice: This portion of the meeting will be closed pursuant to HRS § 92-5.

Testimony can be provided to the Board of Trustees either as: (1) written testimony or (2) live, oral testimony online or at the physical meeting location during the remote meeting.

(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 scheduled 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.

(2) Persons wishing to provide oral testimony online during the remote meeting, please click on the link below:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89554330893

To provide oral testimony online, you will need:

(1) a computer or mobile device to connect to the remote meeting;

(2) internet access; and

(3) a microphone to provide oral testimony.

Persons wishing to provide oral testimony at the physical meeting location can sign up the day-of the meeting at the physical meeting location.

Once your oral testimony is completed, you may be asked to disconect from the meeting. If you willfully disrupt the meeting or do not disconnect on your own, 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.

Oral testimony online or at a physical meeting location will be limited to five (5) minutes. Oral testimony by telephone/landline will not be accepted at this time.