08-11-2019, 04:15 AM
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Originally posted by ironyak
@Frank - what exactly is OHA's mandate and the calculated costs required to achieve it?
They aren't being investigated for a lack of funding but for corruption and malfeasance. Surely you are not suggesting even more public money should be poured into their coffers?
No, I'm not suggesting even more money pour into Oha...to the contrary, I'm suggesting, given their mandate (see below) there would be No money left to fund the protectors if the State did not allow it... plus the amount $50 million in 2019 was something on the average of $2-5 million per year up until 2010...where is this horde of cash that OHA has stashed for just such an event as the TMT protest?
below taken from ...https://www.oha.org/about/abouthistory/
n fact, the public nature of these lands predated the creation of OHA by many years. The ceded lands, consisting of crown lands, once property of the Hawaiian monarchy, and of the government lands of the Kingdom of Hawai‘i, totaled 1.8 million acres upon annexation in 1898. Pursuant to the Joint Resolution of Annexation, all of these lands were considered transferred or “ceded” to the United States government “for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands.”
Upon statehood in 1959, the federal government returned to the State of Hawai‘i all ceded lands not set aside for its own use. Section 5(f) of the Admission Act, directing the state to hold the lands in trust, listed the following five purposes:
The support of public education
The betterment of the conditions of native Hawaiians as defined in the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920
The development of farm and home ownership
The making of public improvements
The provision of lands for public use