Department of Hawaiian Home Lands

Note: This release has been edited.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 16, 2020

 

DHHL Cancels Waimānalo Community Meeting

(KAPOLEI, OʻAHU) – The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) has canceled its March 16 Hawaiian Homes Commission (HHC) community meeting in Waimānalo.

As a majority of DHHL’s audience for community meetings is known to be kupuna, and in an abundance of caution, the Department is following the Centers for Disease Control’s advice against gatherings of 50 or more individuals.

A decision on future scheduled HHC meetings and additional DHHL activities will be made as appropriate.

The regularly scheduled HHC board meeting on Tuesday has also been canceled. For information about HHC meetings, visit the Department’s website, dhhl.hawaii.gov/hhc.

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ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS:

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands carries out Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole’s vision of rehabilitating native Hawaiians by returning them to the land. Established by U.S. Congress in 1921, with the passage of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, the Hawaiian homesteading program run by DHHL includes management of over 200,000 acres of land statewide with the specific purpose of developing and delivering homesteading.

 

MEDIA CONTACT:
Cedric Duarte
Information and Community Relations Officer
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands
(808) 620-9591
[email protected]