MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE ON BENEFICIARY ADVOCACY AND EMPOWERMENT

DATE: Wednesday, October 21, 2026

TIME: 9:00 A.M.

PLACE: Remote Meeting by Interactive Conference Technology

Viewable at https://www.oha.org/livestream OR

Listen by phone: (213) 338-8477 Webinar ID: 914 4773 5478

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. Additionally, this meeting can be viewed live on ʻŌlelo Community Media http://olelo.org. 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.

 AGENDA

I.        Call to Order

II.   New Business

A.    BAE #26-06: Approval of Funds and Procedures for Island Burial Council Moku Representatives Stipends Per Act 96 (2026)

B.     BAE #26-08: Approval of Bills for OHA’s 2027 Legislative Package

C.    Update by Administration on Federal Advocacy Activities.

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 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 acting 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/bae, as soon as practicable thereafter.

Testimony 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.

(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 click on the link:  https://zoom.us/j/91447735478

To provide oral testimony online, you will need:

(1)  a computer or mobile device to connect to the remote meeting, internet access, and

(2)  a microphone to provide oral testimony.

Persons 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.

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

If 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.

Oral testimony online, by telephone or at a physical meeting location will be limited to five (5) minutes.