07-29-2019, 07:45 AM
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Originally posted by geochem
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Originally posted by Frank
......there is that follow the money collected and doled out (at the States discretion I might add) by the State...Fair? does the State give a crap about the Hawaiians plight? Reckoning may be upon the State and Hawaiians will get their fair share...Management of that share is another thread
see entire post @ http://www.punaweb.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26358
Define for me "fair"... The State collects lease fees for ceded lands: 20% of those funds go directly to OHA (someone please correct me if I am wrong here) as do, I believe, 20% of mineral/geothermal royalties specifically and exclusively for Hawaiians' benefit. The upshot is that Hawaiians benefit from 80% of the income from ceded lands proportionately to all the rest of Hawaii's residents but get a carve out of 20% exclusively for them.
Part of the unhappiness on the part of OHA is that the telescope leases are paid in-kind rather than as income to the University that OHA can get "their" 20% carve out and hence, the benefits to the University are distributed proportionately to Hawaiians' participation at the University. However, some (many?) of those leases were executed before implementing the 20% carve out for OHA.
Is a 20% carve-out insufficient? If not, what is sufficient? And how do you propose to deal with the activist faction that insists that all ceded lands be turned over to exclusive control of Hawaiians?
Fair in $$ sense has not reveled itself yet...OHA’s annual revenue is capped at around $15 million. ONLY $15 mil?..after 40 years of doing business together with the State??
can we begin here?...https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/04/oha-presses-for-a-bigger-share-of-money-from-hawaiis-trust-lands/