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OHA trustees activate about $3.96 million in disaster aid for communities hit by March Kona low
Summary
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees unanimously approved redeploying approximately $3.96 million in existing funds on March 25, 2026, to provide immediate aid and home-repair grants for Native Hawaiian households affected by the March Kona low floods. The package reallocates EOLA funds, provides direct disaster grants and Malama Honua home-repair awards, and delegates implementation authority to OHA administration.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees on March 25, 2026, voted unanimously to activate roughly $3.96 million in disaster aid and OHA’s disaster-aid framework to help Native Hawaiian households affected by the March Kona low flooding.
Chair Kahele read into the record a motion that would redeploy up to $2.9 million in remaining encumbered EOLA (emergency aid) funds — including a $100,000 set-aside for community resource hubs and $300,000 reserved as bridge support for furloughed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workers — authorize $410,407 in FY26 disaster-grant funds for direct OHA disbursements, and use $250,000 from the Malama Honua home-repair program to provide $10,000–$20,000 repairs to affected households. The motion also delegated to the OHA administrator authority to award the grants and to set program parameters.
Interim OHA Administrator Summer Silva told trustees the three-part approach would pair rapid, redeployed EOLA assistance with…
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