Should UH manage Mauna Kea's summit?

[TomK]

Eric - it was no argument, I was replying to a couple of Obie's posts which have since been deleted. And yes, if you look back a few posts, having no representation from the observatories is one of the biggest flaws in the bill but by no means the only one. It says a lot that both those that oppose the TMT and those that support it oppose the bill.

[TomK]

I haven't seen any media reports about the latest hearing on SB3090 SD1. Over the weekend I emailed someone involved in the case and this was their reply. The bill isn't dead but will be amended and sent to the Senate.

"The Ways and Means Committee passed the bill out with amendments. We will now expect to see SB 3090 S.D. 2 with the amendments incorporated. It will then be voted on by the full Senate, and assuming that it is approved will be sent to the House.

Most of the amendments are legalistic and technical. Here is a summary:
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Take the Attorney General recommendation to amend chapter 199 to give DOCARE and the county police department the power to enforce Mauna Kea regulations

Clean up any constitutional concerns, Article VII, Section 5, is applicable, related to appropriations

Clean up amendments to replace references to chapter 171,

Clean up amendments to delete reference to renewable energy producers

Clean up amendments to replace “department” with “authority”

Committee report will suggest further discussion on hunting and NARS

DLNR recommendation will be adopted that will clean up amendments to explicitly state that the Maunakea authority is prohibited from selling public lands and that the DLNR's recommendation that all reference to purchase will be deleted

The UH System’s recommendations to clarify section 45, that revenues to OHA only applies to use of public land trust lands

The DLNR suggestions of amendments to clarify chapter 92 that the sunshine law does apply to the Maunakea authority

Kahea’s recommendation page 3, line 8 – 11, delete references to self-funding

Appropriation is blank"

[TomK]

In the meantime, there's this:

"UH Regents Vote For Internal Mauna Kea Audit"

http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2018/0...kea-audit/

I don't know enough about this to comment further.

[TomK]

Kahele will be trying to push his vision of the future of Mauna Kea in some public presentations in the near future. The one on the Big Island will be:

"A meeting has been scheduled for the Big Island in Hilo with Sens. Kahele and and [sic] Rep. Chris Todd at Keaukaha Elementary School on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 from 7 to 9 p.m."

Unfortunately, I will be off island at the time otherwise I would attend, but please go if you have strong views.

http://bigislandnow.com/2018/03/01/commu...-maunakea/

[galileo]

http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/03/hawaii-...anagement/

The Hawaii Senate on Tuesday passed a measure to wrest management of Mauna Kea from the University of Hawaii and establish a new entity to oversee the Big Island mountaintop.

[TomK]

Crazy.

[rainyjim]

i'm at a loss here Tom...
So the 'protectors' are against this bill, the astronomers/UH are against this bill, nearly all the testimony submitted was against this bill - yet it passes 25-0 ... who exactly is for this bill? just OHA?

I really don't get it...

[punaticbychoice]

rainyjim @11:36:10, 03/07/2018-
Something like that.
Follow the money and influence and future plans
for Hawaii.
Think about why OHA and DHHL exist.
I don't think for the betterment of the average Kanaka Maoli.
Or anyone else. Despite the words of their founding charters.
The various factions of the local elites? Yes. Absolutely.

[kalakoa]

I don't think for the betterment of the average Kanaka Maoli. Or anyone else.

Most organizations become selfish when the financials hit seven figures.

[TomK]

Nearly all of my colleagues, with a little more knowledge than I of how politics works in Oahu, think the bill stands no chance of getting through the house. There are rumors as well of Kahele being angry that his bill got so little public support.