Date:

Monday, 11/24/2025

Start Time:

09:00 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: Monday, November 24, 2025

TIME: 9:00 A.M.

PLACE: Remote Meeting via Interactive Conference Technology

This 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: 882 8519 4516. 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.

AGENDA

I. Call to Order

II. Executive Session§

  A. Approval of Executive Session Minutes

   1. September 23, 2025

  B. Legal Matters. The Board anticipates convening in an executive meeting pursuant to HRS § 92-5(a)(4) to receive updated information, consult with its legal counsel, and take any necessary action regarding the Board's powers, duties, privileges, immunities, and liabilities with respect to matters relating to Zurishaddai C. Aki v. OHA, Civil No. 1CCV-25-0001598.

  C. Legal Matters. The Board anticipates convening in an executive meeting pursuant to HRS § 92- 5(a)(4) to receive updated information, consult with its legal counsel, and take any necessary action regarding the Board's powers, duties, privileges, immunities, and liabilities with respect to matters relating to Stacy Kealohalani Ferreira v. OHA, Civil No. 1CCV-25-0001822.

III. New Business

  A. For Action and Decision Making: Consideration of the OHA Administrator’s previously requested personal leave pending an internal investigation related to allegations in Stacy Kealohalani Ferreira v. OHA, Civil No. 1CCV-25-0001822.

  B. For Action and Decision Making: Determination on whether to continue the Interim OHA Administrator appointment and application of OHA policy regarding temporary assignment salary differentials.

IV. Announcements

V. Adjournment

If 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.

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.

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, 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.

§ 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/88285194516

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.