Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 14, Number 12, 1 December 1997 — Board Business [ARTICLE]

Board Business

On Nov. 25, The Board of | Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian i Affairs held its annual meeting on | Kaua'i where it took action as fol- : lows: | • PARLIAMENTARIAN PAY - MENT: deferred payment; | • LĀNA'I HIGH SCHOOL: unanimously appropriated $4,500 to the Hawaiian language program for the 1996-97 school year, i • STAFF ATTORNEY: approved direct supervision by the BOT Chairperson; : • KE KUKUI MĀLAMALAMA ! AND KE KUKUI PO'OKELA AWARDS: unanimously approved recommended candidates (to be announced Dec. 11); ; • PAUL, JOHNSON, PARK AND NILES: approved a sole-souice procurement of $74,000 for legal services in kuleana cases; i • NAĪWE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION: unanimously approved a sole-source procurement of $726,843 for legal services in land title and native rights

projects; • KAHULUI AIRPORT: approved participation in the programmatic agreement (see article left); • OHA'S LEGISLATTVE PACKAGE: included inl998's legislative agenda bills providing for - an OHA representative on the six-member Board of Land and Natural Resources - an OHA representative on the nine-member State Land Use Commission. - designation of OHA's chief procurement officer by the Board of Trustees - exemption of Hawaiians from fees for birth certificates required by law to prove Hawaiian ancestry - escheat of abandoned kuleana lands to OHA. Editor's note: Board decisions are not official until minutes of the meetings have been approved. At press time, minutes of the Nov. 25 meeting had not yet been approved. For a discussion of Nov. 1 0 decisions, see the trustee columns. ■