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Committee approves forwarding HSAC nominations for NACo and WIR seats
Summary
The committee forwarded nominations made by the Hawaii State Association of Counties for National Association of Counties and Western Interstate Region board seats to full council with a favorable recommendation.
The committee approved forwarding Resolution 617-26 to full council with a favorable recommendation. The resolution asked the council to approve HSAC’s nominations to the National Association of Counties (NACo) Board of Directors and the Western Interstate Region (WIR) Board of Directors; nominees named in the paperwork were from Kauai and Honolulu counties and the WIR nominees were named from Maui and Kauai.
Councilmember Kimball framed the item as a routine procedural approval under the HSAC bylaws and noted it was submitted before recent decisions in Honolulu; he described the nomination process and asked for colleague support. Council discussion included historical context and fairness of representation among counties; Councilmember Onishi urged a return to a model giving each county a representative on one of the boards. The committee voted to forward the nominations to full council with a favorable recommendation (8–0, one absent).
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