Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 15, Number 9, 1 September 1998 — Senate Bill 109 [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Senate Bill 109

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From Page 9 meeting was whether, under the loan guarantee section of the bill, access to sources of private financing to Native Hawaiian families would be limited to eeiiain areas. According to Zell, unlike the block grant section of the bill whieh specifically limits activity to Native Hawaiians under the HHCA, 50 percent blood quantum living on the homelands. the loan guarantee program could be eonstrued to be available to HHCA beneficiaries residing off the homelands, as well as non-HHCA beneficiaries who are residing on or off the homelands. Onee the questions were answered, the LAGA committee voted in favor of approving and supporting the passage of S.109, the Native Ameiiean Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Amendments of 1998 by the 105th Congress. Because Congress will

be winding down in October, it was very important that the LAGA committee move forward to approve the S. 1 09 action item so that the issue ean be raised before the OHA Board of Trustees and OHA ean take a position on this matter. The LAGA committee would like to thank all the beneficiaries who have attended our meetings lbr their wonderfuI and thoughtprovoking comments and suggestions. A special mahalo goes out to Aunlie Clara Kakalia, Lela Hubbard, Virginia Kepano, Pōmaika'iokalani Kinney and Kaleo Lindsey for their continued efforts to inform OHA of the sentiments and concerns of the Hawaiian people. With the support and input of our beneficiaries, OHA will ntove forward steadfastly into the next century. ■