AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoMilitary Lands: The Army has closed Makua Valley training ranges and asked DLNR to begin ending leases on several Oʻahu parcels; cultural access will continue. The Navy and NASA also withdrew the final environmental review for Kauaʻi military facilities. New Leadership: Honolulu’s City Council elected Tyler Dos Santos-Tam chair, and state Senate leaders announced committee assignments, with Lorraine Inouye named vice president. Election Fallout: Gov. Josh Green won a second term, Democrats expanded their hold on the Legislature, and Lahaina organizer Pāʻele Kiakona is set to become Hawaiʻi’s first third-party state lawmaker in more than a century. OHA and State Government: Longtime trustee Robert Lindsey lost his seat, Ikaika Anderson won an at-large trustee race, and Green did not reappoint the attorney general who led a corruption probe. Police Oversight: Maui Police Chief John Pelletier, on paid leave during an investigation into oversight of the department’s intelligence unit, plans to ask the Police Commission to reinstate him. Public Services: DLNR is seeking removal of a website it says impersonates the Hawaiʻi Invasive Species Council and could confuse the public.
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