Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 25, Number 6, 1 May 2008 — OHA audit [ARTICLE]

OHA audit

A Senate resolution calling for a state financial and management audit of OHA has died in the state Legislature. SCR 138 died after not receiving a hearing by the Senate Ways and Means Committee. OHA is already scheduled for an audit next year, but Senate backers of the measure had said they wanted to provide the puhlie more immediate infonnation on how OHA is spending its money. State Attorney General Mark Bennett and OHA Trustees have described the fast-tracked audit as punitive and linked to coimnents they directed at three key Senate coimnittees that rejected a $200 million state settlement with OHA over ceded lands revenues.