Fiscal-sustainability

OHA puts fiscal sustainability plans in motion

December Ka Wai Ola cover story by Francine Kananionapua Murray As Hawaiians cared for and managed natural resources in the past, OHA plans to manage its financial resources for the future Around the 15th century, the Hawaiian population was growing so quickly that ruling chiefs in their wisdom became concerned that certain resources were becoming scarce. The land was surveyed and the islands separated into sections like pieces of pie, each including mountain peaks and flat lands spreading out and down to the ocean reefs. Each division included fresh water and had borders, often natural boundaries like rivers, mountain ridges…