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WEST HAWAII TODAY | THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2015
selected to lead the Office
of Aging,” Kenoi said in a
text message. “I was not
involved in the hiring of
Dr. Alameda as the direc-
tor of the Office of Aging.”
The position was adver-
tised for 10 days and six
people applied, a Kenoi
spokesman said in April.
The Office of Aging,
unlike departments set
by the county charter,
does not require County
Council confirmation of its
director. But most council
members, when reviewing
the program budget on
April 23, praised Alameda
for the office.
Alameda has said he
didn’t think there is any
problem with his for-
mer role chairing Kenoi’s
successful mayoral cam-
paigns, as that part is over.
He said since Kenoi is
term-limited and can’t run
for mayor again, he doesn’t
think there’s an issue.
Kenoi’s
campaign
account remains open,
however, and as of
Wednesday, he hadn’t sub-
mitted paperwork to close
it. Under Hawaii cam-
paign finance laws, can-
didates can collect money
whether they’re running
for a specific office or not
and later use their cam-
paign accounts for other
state and local offices.
Greg Ayau, Kenoi’s
campaign treasurer, said
Wednesday he hasn’t
completed the paperwork
to close the campaign
account, as he’s waiting
for the last bank state-
ment showing the bank
account has been closed.
It should be soon, though,
he said.
Alameda has 15 years
experience in the state
Department of Health,
and previously worked
for the Department of
Education.
A former program
manager of the Office of
HealthEquity for the state
Department of Health, he
holds a master’s degree
from the University of
Hawaii at Manoa and a
doctorate in educational,
psychological and cul-
tural studies from the
University of Nebraska.
The Office of Health
Equity is an office of one.
Alameda’s previous expe-
rience as an instructor at
Argosy University for eth-
ics, child and adolescent
development and multi-
cultural counseling class-
es also doesn’t include
supervisory experience.
The position requires
at minimum a bach-
elor’s degree in social
work, sociology, psychol-
ogy, gerontology, coun-
seling, public health or
related field, according
to documents obtained
by West Hawaii Today.
Documents show the sal-
ary range for the position
is $63,228 to $110,988,
but Alameda was hired at
the top of the range.
ETHICS:
Kenoi’s campaign
account
remains open
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A
among other complaints to the
developer.
Wednesday, OHA said those
concerns still stand.
Greg Chun, an officer with
1250 Oceanside LLC — a new
company formed to move the
project ahead—saidWednesday
the developer is working to cre-
ate a new gate feature and a
wastewater treatment plant,
but is not developing or selling
lots. Instead, Hokulia consid-
ers proper treatment of graves
its highest priority before other
construction begins, Chun said.
In all, about a dozen homes
have been built in the subdi-
vision, which includes a golf
course, pro shop and other
features.
More graves are being discov-
ered all the time. Descendant
LeAnn Leslie, who took part in
recent surveys and organized
this week’s protest, said that
four graves were found from
last October through June as
Hokulia reassesses some agri-
cultural areas on the property.
Chun said there has been one
inadvertent discovery of a grave
as early as last week.
In recent grave discoveries,
only two descendants were con-
sulted out of 190, said Leslie.
Chun said that when a grave
is discovered, the developer con-
tacts SHPD, which then informs
the descendants.
“I can’t speak for how they
have handled notifications, but
certainly we are willing to sit
down and consult with (the
descendants) on how burials
should be handled,” he said.
Chun said the anger of resi-
dents is understandable given
the number of years that have
passed without proper treat-
ment of some sites. But the
new owners have only recently
gained traction in dealing with
an issue that far predates them,
Chun saiud. Only when Hokulia
emerged from bankruptcy in
June 2014 were developers able
to put money into mitigation,
he said.
“We have been pedal to the
metal since then,” Chun said.
In a site visit Wednesday
led by Chun, a reporter and
photographer observed a
cemetery said to contain the
remains of 36 children and
adolescents. The lower por-
tion of the bare soil and rock
cemetery held dried pools of
eroded silt, and the outer area
around the buffer contained
vegetation killed with herbi-
cide. Descendants contend
that vegetation around all
graves should be removed by
hand instead of being doused
with herbicide.
“I’m trying to explain to them
that this is the flesh of of these
people’s bodies,” Leslie said
Wednesday evening.
Chun said the burial treat-
ment plans are silent on the use
of herbicide but that Hokulia
is committed to engaging
descendants in discussions of
other treatments.
Development at Hokulia —
and burial treatments as outlined
in a 2006 settlement agreement
— languished for years in the
economic downturn and in legal
battles. Arizona-based develop-
er Lyle Anderson launched an
early incarnation of the project
in the early 1990s with plans for
hundreds of upscale homes. But
lawsuits and financial problems
forced the project into bankrupt-
cy, with a U.K. bank foreclosing
on $1 billion in debt in January
2008. The development is now
owned by mainland-based
SunChase Holdings.
Leslie said she plans to hold
Hokulia to its promises.
“If anyone was to dig up some-
one else’s grave on the main-
land, it would be a huge prob-
lem,” said Jonathan Droge, a
descendant standing across the
highway from Hokulia’s gate.
“It’s not a big deal in Hawaii
for some reason.”
HOKULIA:
About a dozen homes have been built in the subdivision, which includes a
golf course, pro shop and other features
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A
The burial site of 36 children and adolescents sits alongside the Hokulia Golf Course. The vegetation in the foreground, outside
the buffer wall, was killed with herbicide. A pool of silt erosion can be seen inside the lower portion of the inner complex.
Printed with family permission.
LAURA SHIMABUKU/
WEST HAWAII TODAY
Voyaging canoe Hikianalia returns to Hawaii
HONOLULU
—
Modern voyaging canoe
Hikianalia
arrived
home Tuesday, guided
by a team of apprentice
navigators who faced
some one of their
toughest challenges yet.
The doubled-hulled
vessel
returned
to
Hawaiian waters after
logging some 14,000
miles across the Pacific
during the first year of
a worldwide sail called
Malama Honua, or
“Care for the Earth,” the
Hawaii Star-Advertiser
reported.
Its
15-member
crew contained three
apprentice navigators
who used the stars
and swells to guide
Hikianalia home, led by
veteran Oahu voyager
and
Iolani
School
teacher Catherine Fuller.
“The
navigation
was tough. The winds
weren’t the best. The
doldrums, we were stuck
there for six days or
more,” said apprentice
navigator Kekaimalu
Lee, referring to a
stretch of ocean near
the equator that is
frequently marked by
stagnant winds.
“But we found home;
we
pulled
Hawaii
out of the sea,” he
added.
Polynesian
voyagers often describe
encountering
their
island destination, as
it nears the canoe, as
“pulling it from the
sea.”
Leaders
of
the
Polynesian
Voyaging
Society consider these
Pacific legs of the three-
year Malama Honua
journey to be critical
training runs for a new
generation of wayfinding
navigators.
“Each one had a night
that was just total brain
damage, and each one
came through and made
the right decisions and
we got to the right place,”
Fuller said. “It really was
a test of will and a test
of endurance and a test
of character for all of us.”
The
Hikianalia
originally left Hilo last
May to serve as the
science, technology and
safety escort forHokulea,
which is continuing on
the Malama Honua sail.
But PVS President
Nainoa
Thompson
said it would be safer
for Hikianalia to avoid
the volatile waters of
the Indian Ocean and
head back to Hawaii. A
modern sailboat with the
power to tow for longer
distances will now
accompany Hokulea.
The canoe, which
is often called “Hiki”
by crew members, left
Tahiti 28 days ago and
spent the past two
months sailing back
from New Zealand.
As crew members set
foot on the ground for
the first time in nearly
a month, they were
swarmed by a crowd of
200 or so people who
came to welcome them
and give lei.
PVS officials have
a new mission for
Hiki, now that she has
returned home. They
plan to bring community
members aboard the
canoe to serve as crew
for an additional 16,000
or so miles of sailing
among the islands.
Hikianalia will sail
solo as far as the French
Frigate Shoals and as
far south as Loihi, a
seamount off Hawaii
Island.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PVS officials plan to bring community
members aboard the canoe to serve
as crew for an additional 16,000 or so
miles of sailing among the islands.
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