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OHA again proposes settlement for past due payments

Posted by Pono Kealoha on January 16, 2009 at 6:51am
jhkrischel wrote:How's this for a settlement - no government agency, including OHA, will ever again engage in any sort of limitation of services on the basis of race, and then OHA can have whatever share of the State of Hawaii budget it can get the legislature to pass.Hawaii's lands are for all Hawaiians, regardless of race. The public lands "ceded" upon annexation were returned to the State of Hawaii upon statehood. They belong to the entire public, and should never be divvyed up to people based on race.01/15/2009 6:18:53 p.mponosize wrote:Replying to jhkrischel:IGNORANT thats how !HAWAI'I IS STILL A SOVEREIGN " NEUTRAL" NATION, ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED and RULED BY ARACIST ,TERRORIST CONTROLLED GENOCIDAL CORPORATE PROGRAM " USA!http://hawaiiankingdom.orgCEDED ? How can you CED SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER YOUR'S TO BEGIN WITH !AGAIN YOUR THINKING IN A "USA RAICIST BOX" THIS ISSUE BELONGS IN "WORLD COURT " NOT USA'S!http://youtube.com/ponosizeStamp.jpghttp://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090115/BREAKING/90115067/-1/breakingnewsfront
HonoluluAdvertiser.com

January 15, 2009

OHA again proposes settlement for past due payments

By Gordon Y.K. Pang
Advertiser Staff Writer

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs will try again this legislative session to pass a bill seeking to resolve past due claims on income and proceeds generated by the Public Land Trust.

This year, however, they will not be going to the Legislature hand-in-hand with members of the Lingle administration as it did last year.

The Public Land Trust consists of those 1.2 million acres of ceded lands transferred to the state in the Admissions Act, excluding those lands under the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. It amounts to about two-thirds of all ceded lands, which refers to the crown and ceded lands that were taken over at the 1898 overthrow.

OHA and the state have long agreed that the agency is owed a portion of the proceeds generated by lands once owned by the Hawaiian monarchy. In fact, the state now pays OHA $15.1 million annually.

What’s been in dispute is how much OHA should have received in the 30 years up until July 1, 2008.

As it did last year, OHA is seeking a settlement valued at $200 million.

And under the plan unveiled at a press conference today, OHA once again is asking to gain title to two parcels of land – in Kaka‘ako Makai and along Banyan Drive in Hilo. The two parcels carry an assessed value of $127.2 million.

But recognizing the state’s financial straits this year, OHA leaders said, it will ask for the remaining $72.8 million to be decided and transferred next year.

A key change in this year’s proposal is that it does not propose any resolution of so-called “future” claims beyond continuation of the $15.1 million annual settlement. Extinguishing future claims was a key concern raised by Native Hawaiian groups who opposed last year’s plan.

“The Legislature’s support and enactment of the bill is essential to put to rest the 30-year old past due ‘disputed’ revenue claims on income and proceeds from the Public Land Trust,” OHA board Chairwoman Haunani Apoliona said

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  • Pomaikaiokalani January 16, 2009 at 8:27am
    OHA was created to be a Trust for our people, the Native Hawaiians. Not a Trust for the Trustees of OHA.
  • Pomaikaiokalani January 16, 2009 at 8:26am
    ALOHA Kakou, e Hawaii, The Office of Hawaiian Affairs was created to be a separte entity independent ot the executive branch of government of the State of Hawaii. When the OHA Trustees signed an Settlement Agreement with Governor Lingle, the OHA Trustees violated their creation of being an independent entity of the State of Hawaii. The OHA Trustees do not have to power of law or the right of the law to sign any type of agreement with the Governor Lingle in regards to the beneficaries of OHA. When the OHA Trustees signed the agreement with Lingle, they committed a very serious violation of their Trust Duty to our people. In the coming legislature I will be there to speak and testify against any and all actions of a Settlement on the 50 Years of Back Payments due to our people. The Back Payments are not due to the OHA Trustees. If it was not for our people, the Native Hawaiians there would be no creation of OHA.
  • Ululani January 16, 2009 at 7:33am
    P.S. Keep in mind that my approach is different from yours but the end product is the same: JUSTICE FOR HAWAIIANS.
  • Ululani January 16, 2009 at 7:31am
    I couldn't find the link til I saw it beneath your pic.

    I have experience with Krischel who is not a property "owner" but I know of some people who are not property "owners" yet do not act as though they know about title. He does that a lot and tries to get away with spreading mistruths. However I do point out the obvious....

    I just wrote this:

    Jere Krischel obviously condones conversion which is ILLEGAL.

    The "state" has to be extremely careful w/ this issue since they risk litigation if they use personal property w/o the consent of Hawaiians.

    The Hawaiian Homes Act explicitly states a relationship between Hawaiians and the "state:"

    http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol01_Ch0001-0042F/04-ADM/...

    In addition section 5 in the "state" constitution also explictly states that OHA holds some title in trust for Hawaiians

    "There is hereby established an Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs shall hold title to all the real and personal property now or hereafter set aside or conveyed to it which shall be held in trust for native Hawaiians and Hawaiians."

    http://hawaii.gov/lrb/con/conart12.html

    Conversion should never ever be tolerated including but not limited to the personal property of Hawaiians who still have some title. Their property rights must be respected.

    Aloha!... Lana
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