{"id":165149,"date":"2022-09-13T15:12:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T01:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=165149"},"modified":"2022-09-13T15:12:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T01:12:33","slug":"8-nominees-mauna-kea-authority-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/13\/8-nominees-mauna-kea-authority-board\/","title":{"rendered":"8 nominees proposed for new Mauna Kea authority board"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/system-maunakea-1.jpg\" alt=\"Maunakea\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-147801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/system-maunakea-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/system-maunakea-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/system-maunakea-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gov. David Ige submitted the names of eight nominees for the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority, a new management body tasked with decision making and stewardship relating to Maunakea. The list of nominees now heads to the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Senate for confirmation. A <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> professor, former <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> associate professor, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Board of Regents member and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo chancellor are among the proposed members for the new Authority which was established via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.hawaii.gov\/session2022\/bills\/GM1358_.PDF\">Act 255 (<abbr>HB<\/abbr>2024)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to thank these individuals for stepping forward. Through this new stewardship model, I believe we can find a way for science and culture to coexist on Mauna Kea in a mutually beneficial way,&rdquo; said Ige.<\/p>\n<h2>Nominees<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kamanamaikalani Beamer<\/strong>: An individual with &#699;\u0101ina (land) resource management expertise and specific experience with <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> island\u2011based management. Beamer is a professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/hshk\/kamakakuokalani\/\">Kamakak\u016bokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies<\/a> in the Hui &#699;\u0100ina Momona Program at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/li>\n<li>Gary Krug: An individual who is recognized as possessing expertise in the fields of preschool through 12th-grade public education or post-secondary education.<\/li>\n<li>Rich Matsuda: A representative from a list of three names submitted by Mauna Kea Observatories.<\/li>\n<li>John Komeiji: An individual with business and finance experience who has previous administrative experience in managing a large private-sector business.<\/li>\n<li>Pomaikai Bertelmann: An individual who is a lineal descendent of a practitioner of Native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices associated with Mauna Kea.<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Mangauil: An individual who is a recognized practitioner of Native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices.<\/li>\n<li>Paul Horner: An individual from a list of three names submitted by the President of the Senate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelle &ldquo;Noe Noe&rdquo; Wong-Wilson<\/strong>: An individual from a list of three names submitted by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Wilson is a retired <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> CC Hawaiian Studies assistant professor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three ex-officio, voting members will also serve on the Authority<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, or the chairperson&#8217;s designee. This position is currently held by Chair Suzanne Case.<\/li>\n<li>The mayor of the County of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, or the mayor\u2019s designee. Mayor Mitch Roth has designated Douglass Shipman Adams, director, research and development management.<\/li>\n<li>The chairperson of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents, or a designee. Chairperson <strong>Randy Moore<\/strong> has designated <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Regent <strong>Eugene Bal <abbr title=\"the third\">III<\/abbr><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Chancellor will be an ex-officio, non-voting member of the Authority. This position is currently held by Chancellor <strong>Bonnie Irwin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new management body will be tasked with decision-making and stewardship relating to Maunakea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[72,61,1503,659,14,9,947],"class_list":["post-165149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-board-of-regents","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-kamakakuokalani-center-for-hawaiian-studies","tag-maunakea","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165164,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165149\/revisions\/165164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}