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Commission approves FY27 operating and CIP request, quarterly fund transfer and a docket correction
Summary
The Hawaiian Homes Commission voted to approve the department’s FY2027 operating and capital improvement program request to the governor, to transfer Hawaiian Home receipts to the General Loan Fund and to approve a deferred docket with one item removed for further investigation.
The Hawaiian Homes Commission on Sept. 16 approved three formal actions on the agenda: the department’s fiscal year 2027 operating and capital improvement program request to the governor; a routine transfer of Hawaiian Home receipts into the Hawaiian Home General Loan Fund; and a previously deferred Homestead Services docket with one item removed for further investigation.
Katie Lambert of the department presented the supplemental budget request. She told commissioners the submittal included 22 new positions spread across divisions and that several requested roles — described in the narrative as compliance officers and land agents — would strengthen enforcement and land management on the neighbor islands. Commissioner questions focused on line-item details and on how proposed requests compared with the FY26 budget; Katie said staff would provide further documentation comparing FY26 and FY27 requests and noted some FY27 asks rolled forward work that was not funded in FY26.
Following discussion, a motion to approve the FY27 operating and CIP budget request for presentation to the governor was moved, seconded and carried. The commission also authorized the chair to approve technical corrections before incorporation into the governor’s executive budget.
Shortly after, the commission approved the department’s routine quarterly action to transfer receipts deposited into the Hawaiian Homes Receipts Fund into the Hawaiian Home General Loan Fund; that motion was moved, seconded and carried.
Earlier in the morning, the commission took up a deferred Homestead Services item (docket D-7). Homestead Services Division Administrator Juan Garcia explained that item 39 on the D-7 list was omitted before the submittal went to the commission and that the department recommended approval of D-7 with item 39 removed pending further investigation with the State Department of Health. The commission voted to approve D-7 with item 39 excluded.
Each motion was carried by voice vote; explicit roll-call tallies were not recorded in the meeting transcript.
Ending: Staff committed to provide supplemental budget comparisons and billing-code detail for the debt-service line queried by a commissioner.
