Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 36, Number 4, 1 April 2019 — Com'on OHA...have will to win! Stop letting everyone take advantage of our 'Hawaiianess'...our aloha spirit...our kind, gracious, generous nature [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Com'on OHA...have will to win! Stop letting everyone take advantage of our 'Hawaiianess'...our aloha spirit...our kind, gracious, generous nature

LEO ELELE TRUSTEE MESSSAGES

Translation: WhyIvoted NO on authorizing OHA 's Administration to start negotiations with the City & County of Honolulu to build a 'stinky ' Sewage plant on Kaka 'ako Makai..Yes, your ceded beneficiaries' land! PIease do not believe them when they say there will be NO SMELL! Right, this is wliat the Developers to!d Ironworkers Loeal 625 when they said that the Stadium steel beams would Never Rust!

But, the 'reaV question is "what do we Hawaiians get out ofthis?" Aloha Mai Kakou, This short pieee is written to help you understand what is happening to our Aloha 'Āina Kaka'ako Makai, and why I voted the way I did (the only No vote). Eleeted in 2014, I was quite idealistie in thinking that with the $2.9M Master plan Rob Iopa's WCIT created, we were going to be issuing

RFPs to implement them. Today it's 2019 and what have we done? Nothing. . . And now because the City needs to give permits to luxury as well as other types of developers and need a plant where 20,000 toilets need a plaee to flush, they tum to OHA' s waterfront property - ceded lands. After having a heart to heart talk with former Governor John Waihee, he agreed with me that onee a City-owned 'stinky sewage plant' is built on our lands, the value for the whole 3 1 acres would drop. Question he posed: "Why everything garbage on the Makai side...on OHA's beneficiaries' land? Why not Mauka side whose owners are KS and Howard Hughes. If they need the plant, why don't they build it on their side and with today's technology, they could build a Park over it. . .pay for it!" Why did the STATE give OHA land that contained a city dump in exchange for the $200M reparations owed to the Hawaiian people, and now the City wants to take over Lot I to build a sewage wastewater plant (whieh will smell). Sell for $29M? 'A'ole! 'A'ole! And now

the State wants Lot C for an Internaīional cable? I hear our beneficiaries saying things like "Why hasn't God given me more?" "Haven't I done enough to deserve a better life?" (As our people suffer, don't they deserve a better life?) "What's the point in trying? I could never be great at anything. MY LIFE is too hard. You wouldn't understand. Why doesn't

OHA do something with that land to help us?" If our mission, our goal is to change lives (for the betterment of our people), there ean be no room for compromise. Let's wipe away all excuses, distractions, and turn from negativity. . .and embrace positivity. Translation: (Why hasn't the State given us the 20% revenue due us as mandated by State law?) (What's the point in trying to do great things with Kaka'ako Makai if HCDA created/placed difficult obstacles to block whatever plans we had?) OHA (from the Trustees to the CEO) needs to instill that Will To Win if this Trust is to survive. ..if we are to build a secure sustainable trust fund for the many generations to eome, into perpetuity. Now you know why I was the only Trustee who voted NO on this Action Item at the Board of Trustee's March 7th meeting. Me ka ha'aha'a, In my humble opinion, Na'u me ke aloha, na Trustee Lei Ahu Isa ■

Leina'ala Ahu lsa, Ph.D. TmstBE, At-lsrgB

| [f-'2 OHA's Kaka'ako-Makai properties. - Photo: KW0 File