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Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate 1990 SUMMER PROGRAMS NI'IHAU 6 rP 5 7 8 12 9 KSjBE SPONSORED: 14 MOlOKA'1 1. Campus Summer School (Gr. K-12) 1-4 MAUl 2. Explorations (Post 5th grade) C'\ 3. Kulia I Ka Pono (Post 7th & 8th) lANA'I i<-.J 19 4. Komputer Kamp (Post 6th & 7th) 16 17 U DOE-KSjBE SPONSORED: KAHO'OlAWE 20 WAI" 5. 'Ele'ele (Gr. 1-8) 16. Lana'i (Gr. 1-6) 6. Kapa'a (Gr. 1-8) 17. Lahaina (Gr. 1-8) 26 7. Kaua'i High (Gr. 7-12) 18. Waihe'e (Gr. 1-8) / 8. Kapa'a High (Gr. 7-12) 19. Hana (Gr. 1-8) s<> 9. La'iejWaiahole (Gr. 1-6) 20. Kohala (Gr. 1-12) 21 10. Nanaikapono (Gr. 1-6) 21. Kealakehe (Gr. 1-6) 11. Nanakuli High (Gr. 7-12) 22. Konawaena (Gr. 7-12) 22 12. Makaha (Gr. 1-6) 23. Na'alehu (Gr. 1-8) 13. Wai'anae (Gr. 9-12) 24. Pahoa (Gr. 1-8) 14. Waimanalo (Gr. 1-8) 25. Keaukaha (Gr. 1-6) 15. Moloka'i (Gr. 1-12) 26. Waimea (Gr. 1-8) 23 For information or assistance, call the KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS representative for yo ur area: Hawai'i lana'i Maui O'ahu (West) Diana Nui Sol Kaopuiki Cordy Maclaughlin Summer Programs Office Phone 322-6044 Phone 565-6374 Phone 244-5449 Phone 842-8266 or 842-8671 Hawai'i Kaua'i Moloka'i (East) Robert Rosehill Donna Nakahara Ron Kimball Phone 935-5580 Phone 245-8070 Phone 553-3673 OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS 1600 Kaplolanl Blvd., Suite 1500 BULK RATE Honolulu, HawaII 96814 U.S. POSTAGE PAID Honolulu, Hawaii Announcing their agreement on the OHA ceded land trust were: (front) OHA chairman Thomas Permit No. 298 Kaulukukul and Governor Waihee. Back row (L-R): OHA administrator Richard Paglinawan and trust e Clarence Ching, Moses Keale, Louis Hao, Frenchy DeSoto, Manu Kahaialii, Moanlkeala Akaka and Rod Burgess. • • ... Center section on proposed ceded land settlement OOfjf\ OHA, Waihee agree on ceded lands By Deborah Lee Ward The proposed legislation would clarify: Editor, Ka Wai Ola OOHA • which lands comprise the public land trust The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Gov. John • which types of revenues, coming from the Waihee announced on Feb. 8 a joint agreement trust lands, will be shared with OHA which establishes a formula for calculating the • what process is to be followed to determine past due and future income that OHA is entitled to actual amounts due and a plan for repayment. for native Hawa ii ans as its 20 percent pro rata The first draft legislation establishes two types share from state ceded lands revenues. of revenues from ceded lands, "sovereign" and Announcement of the agreement culmiinates "proprietary." Sovereign income is the money the more than two years of painstaking, compli- state raises through its sovereign power to tax the cated negotiations between OHA and the Gover- population. OHA does not have a claim on this nor's office as the key responsible parties under sovereign income. law. "Proprietary income" comes from lease rents • An executive bill containing the terms of the and similar uses of the land. It is on this proprietary agreement had been introduced as companion income only that the claims for OHA's past-due 20 bills HB 2896 and SB 3104. A joint hearing was held percent income will be calculated. Feb. 13 by the House Committee on Economic The legislation provides that the past due Development and Hawaiian Affairs (chair Rep. amount for native Hawaiian beneficiaries will be David Y. Ige) and the Senate Committee on Hous- arrived at through a year-by-year evaluation of the ing and Hawaiian Programs (chair Sen. Mike type and form bf gross income, plus interest, com- Crozier). Gov. John Waihee receives a symbolic kauila pounded annually. In the next fiscal year the At press time the house committee indicated plant from OHA Chairman of Trustees amount due OHA under the proposed bill would that their bill would be reported out of committee Thomas Kaulukukui Sr. following presenta- be $8.5 million. This would be an increase of $7 .2 without amendment to the house finance commit- tion of the ceded lands proposed settlement at million over the $1.3 million OHA now rereives for tee. The senate committee held its bill and will wait the state Capitol. native Hawaiian beneficiaries. for the house version to cross over. Sen. Crozier announced he will schedule hearings on that bill in The state Office of Management and Budget will mid-March. This early notice is to allow more time The legislation clarifies the State of Hawaii's determine the total amount of past due income for community review of the bills and for public legal obligations, through OHA, to native owed retroactively to OHA. The determination input. Hawaiians of 50 percent or more Hawaiian blood will be based on terms of this joint agreement as Trustee Frenchy DeSoto complimented Rep. as they are specified in Chapter 10 of the Hawai'i applied year-by-year from June 14, 1980 through Ige for the strength of his support. She also said: Revised Statutes. The joint agreement represents the 1990-1991 fiscal year. "Senator Crozier's action is an essential part of a a crucial first step toward resolving all controver- The proposed legislation makes clear it is not successful legislative strategy. Mike has, by his ac- sies relating to state trust obligations to Hawaiians intended to replace or affect the claims of native tion made passage both simpler and more likely." and native Hawaiians. continued page 8 Hawaiians vote to be one people Hawaiians have voted overwhelmingly to adopt On Dec. 5 last year, OHA began sending out se- a single definition of Native Hawaiian for OHA's cret ballots to the nearly 64,000 Hawaiians who trust and entitlements. were registered to vote in the 1988 OHA election. The definition identifies a Native Hawaiian as The voting period ended Thursday, Jan. 25. anyone who can trace their ancestry to the native The plebiscite results will be sent to the Hawaii peoples who lived in Hawai'i before the arrival of state lpgislature which requested and funded the Captain James Cook in 1778. plebiscite. Seventy-nine percent of those voting in plebis- An amendment to the state constitution is ne- cIte said they want to eliminate the distinction cessary for the single definition to be incorporated be ween Hawaiians with 50 percent or more into Hawai'i laws. Any new law will require ratifica- Hawaiian blood and those who do not meet that tion by a majority of all Hawaii's voters. requirement. The unofficial results of the plebiscite are as If enacted, the single definition amendment will follows: not apply to the past due entitlement to Native Hawaiians of 50 percent or more blood. Changes 63, 59 ballots mailed out to OHA voters in law can only affect the future, past due entitle- -3,046 undeliverable ments must - by law - comply with the law that was in force at the time. 60 ,813 deliverable ballots Approximately 41 percent of all deliverable bal- lots were returned. This high rate of participation 19 247 yes votes total for a mail plebiscite demonstrates the impor- 5,212 no votes total tance which the Hawaiian people place on the op- 103 blank votes portunity to determine their own membership, 46 overvotes (voted both "yes" and "no") On Valentine's Day, Amoe Kealoha received a OHA Chairman Thomas K. Kaulukukui Sr. said. bone marrow transplant and came through in 24,608 total ballots returned At the Jan. 30 news conference, following the satisfactory condition. The donor was a male, (41 percent voter participation) ballot tabulation, the chairman said, "The out- part-Hawaiian, unrelated, in his late twenties come of our single definition plebiscite is truly an according to Norma Kop public relations 79 percent "Yes" votes expression of self-determination on the part of our spokesperson for St. Francis Medical Center, 21 percent "No" votes continue page 8 Liliha. 'Ao'C\,o Elua (Page 2) Malaki (March) 1990 Auwe OHABoard In the February Ka Wai Ola OHA article on By Ann L. Moore 0 Rich Budnick's book on the "Street Names of Business O'ahu, the last number of the ZIP code was acci- ;::::.:;::::::::: :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.;.;.;.::::::::::::;:::::::;:::::;:::::;.. ::: ::::::::::::::::::;:;:;:: .........:. :.:.::::::::::: dently dropped. To order the book people may contact the author at P.O. Box 4183 , Honolulu , The board of trustees of the Office of HawaiiaJ"l Communications so OHA can provide informa- Hawai'i, 96812 . Affairs held its January business meeting Friday, tion to the general public on settlement, with the Jan. 26, at OHA's office, 1600 Kapiolani Blvd., governor, of the ceded land revenues issue as The front page story on the 'Aha 'Opio (Hawaiian Youth Legislature) in February's issue Suite 1500, Honolulu. mandated by the state legislature. The approval gave June 18-30 as the dates. That is incorrect. Present were Chairman Kaulukukui and trust- was made provisional on settlement of the issue. The 'Aha 'Opio correct dates are June 18 through ees Burgess, Ching, DeSoto, Hao, Kahaialii and The trustees voted unanimously to adopt a posi- June 23. Applications for the 'Aha 'Opio, and infor- Keale. tion statement recommendpd by the committee mation, are available now at high schools on all Chairman's Report which provides that a coordination of all interested The administrator and deputy administrator re- agencies, organizations and invidividuals will be islands. ported a call from Arnold Leong of the county of actively pursued by OHA and that OHA does not Publication of this month's notice of NHCAP's Kaua'i public works division about worried support, and will not support, any efforts which solicitation of project fu nding proposals was ori- Hawaiian residents concerned about possible exclude or ignore the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.