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Hawaiian Homes Commission approves $9M in FY26 grants, seeks release of $1M contingency
Summary
The commission approved $9 million in FY26 grants across four solicitations and gave preliminary approval to pursue an extra $1 million contingent on state release, amid testimony urging reconsideration of several denied applications and calls for more capacity building for beneficiaries.
The Hawaiian Homes Commission on March 16 approved $9 million in FY26 grant awards and authorized staff to pursue an additional $1 million that would be released only if the state frees the contingency. The package covers four solicitations: facility improvements (RFP 002), program implementation (RFP 003), capacity building (RFP 004) and disaster mitigation (RFP 005).
Lily Maka, acting planning program manager, and Gigi (GI) Cairo, grant specialist, led the presentation and noted minor corrections to the agenda tables before the commission took up the recommendations. Cairo said, “we did find a couple of oversights in the narrative. All the information is…
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