Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 16, Number 12, 1 December 1999 — Springer resigns leadership [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Springer resigns leadership

Machado,DeSoto quit GAS Committee

By Paula Durbln Hawai'i Trustee Hannah Springer announced her resignation as vice chair of the Board of T rustees

and as chair of OHA's Land and Sovereignty Committee Nov. 1 5. She had been elected vice chair of the board when it reorganized subsequent to the 1998 eleetions and had been chair of the Land and Sovereignty Committee since

the board's previous reorganization in October 1997. On Nov. 18, Moloka'i-Lāna'i Trustee Colette Machado announced her resignation from OHA's Committee on Governmental Affairs and Sovereignty, citing differences with GAS chair, Trustee-at-Large Mililani Trask. "This resignation does not affect my duties as the chair of the Committee on Program Management and my committee memberships on Budget and Finance and Policy and Planning," Trustee Machado clarified in the memorandum she circulated. See RESIGNATION on page 3

RESIGNATION

From page 1 The same day, Trustee-at-Large Frenchy DeSoto also resigned from the GAS Committee on whieh she had been serving as vice chair. She cited differences with Board Chair Rowena Akana and with T rustee Trask. ■