An AI generated and office reviewed report summary. Report No. 25-07 Audit of the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority In 2020, as it entered its third decade, the Hawai‘i Tourism concluded that it needed a change. Its continuous drive to increase visitor numbers had taken a toll on Hawai‘i’s people and their natural environment. What was needed was a “re-balancing” of priorities, and for that reason, “destination management” would be the Authority’s focus and at the heart of the new s...
An AI generated and office reviewed report summary. In January 2016, Governor David Ige announced in his State of the State speech that he was working to cool 1,000 classrooms by the end of the year. That May, the Hawai‘i Legislature approved $100 million in general funds to cool 1,000 public school classrooms by the end of that calendar year. The department’s plan would later be referred to as the “Cool Classrooms Initiative.” Three years later, the State’s heat abatement e...
In Audit of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Report No. 23-04, we examined certain OHA activities with respect to land, including both its commercial properties and legacy lands. Specifically, we report our findings with respect to OHA’s process to identify and select commercial properties to acquire, OHA’s development of those commercial properties, including its Kaka‘ako Makai lands, and OHA’s oversight and management of its legacy lands, which include culturally significant properties...