This meeting can be viewed via livestream on OHA’s website at www.oha.org/livestream or listened to 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 meeting, will be available at 560 N. Nimitz Hwy., Suite 200, Honolulu, HI 96817.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees (BOT) Committee on Budget and Finance (B&F) will be holding a series of informational briefings to review the proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 and FY2027 Biennium Budget. These briefings are designed to support informed decision-making by the BOT and provide OHA’s executive leadership team, department heads, division directors, and appropriate support staff with an opportunity to present and discuss their budget requests for the upcoming biennium.

AGENDA

I.     Call to Order

A. Presentation by OHA Board of Trustees: Budget briefings for the proposed Biennium Budget for Fiscal Year 2026 and Fiscal Year 2027 budgets of the office of the Board of Trustees. Question and answers with the OHA BOT Chairperson, Chairperson of the Committee on Budget and Finance, and appropriate staff.*

Webinar ID 864 9980 4951 and oral testimony online can be given using the link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86499804951

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II.   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. Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, Chapter 92, Public Agency Meetings and Records, 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/bf 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.

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.

Please note that 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 refer to the date-specific meeting links provided for in the Agenda above. If you are unable to link directly, please copy and paste the link into your web browser.

To provide oral testimony online, you will need:

(1)  a computer or mobile device to connect to the virtual 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 disconnect 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.