Bill Text: HI HR14 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Commending The Students And Teachers Of The aalii Program At Nanakuli High And Intermediate School For Their Commitment To Their Civic Duty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-02-04 - Resolution adopted in final form. [HR14 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2019-HR14-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.R. NO.

14

THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

COMMENDING THE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF THE AALII PROGRAM AT NĀNĀKULI HIGH AND INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO THEIR CIVIC DUTY.

 

 

 


     WHEREAS, a group of students from Nānākuli High and Intermediate School participating in the AALII PROGRAM started working at Kaala Farm in Waianae Valley to learn about watershed resource management and agriculture; and

 

     WHEREAS, the students learned how Hawaiians had used the water from streams that flowed through the valley for traditional agriculture and fish ponds and that water had been capped and diverted by the sugar plantations in the late 1800’s only to be used later for residential development; and

 

     WHEREAS, they also learned that releasing the water into the stream will help to feed our aquifers, allow the stream to flow to the ocean, and create brackish waters that will allow the endemic species of oopu, opae, and other fish like the anae to spawn, as well as promote limu growth; and

 

     WHEREAS, there are at least four streams in Waianae Valley - Kūmaipō, Hiu, Kalalula, and Nioloopua - that no longer flow year-round due to water diversions; and

 

     WHEREAS, the students began to research the laws and policies on water resource management as part of their experiential learning; and

 

     WHEREAS, based on their research, they learned that the Commission on Water Resource Management has the responsibility to protect the traditional and customary practices and natural resources dependent on streamflow, and found that Waianae is the only place on Oahu that does not have a water management area designation; and

 

     WHEREAS, community members from the ahupuaa of Nānākuli, Lualualei, Waianae, and Mākaha have expressed a desire to restore the water being diverted out of Waianae back into the stream, to allow mahiai (farmers) who use generational and traditional Hawaiian plants in Waianae; and

 

     WHEREAS, these AALII PROGRAM students attended the Waianae Coast Neighborhood Board meeting on November 1, 2016, and through their efforts the board unanimously passed a resolution researched and written by the students; and

 

     WHEREAS, the students also presented their resolution at a community meeting held in the Waianae Moku where a panel of expert members on water resource management were present; and

 

     WHEREAS, the AALII PROGRAM students additionally attended an agriculture committee meeting to prepare for this panel discussion and to propose their resolution on restoring water to the watershed for this panel to deliberate; and

 

     WHEREAS, at the 2016 and 2017 Annual Conventions of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs in Las Vegas, Nevada, and in Seattle, Washington, the resolution based on the one drafted by the AALII PROGRAM students was introduced by the Princess Kaiulani Hawaiian Civic Club and Ke One O Kākuhihewa, Oahu Council, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs recommended that the resolution be deferred and that association members work with the students to rewrite the resolution; and

 

     WHEREAS, the resolution submitted by the AALII PROGRAM students was amended and eventually passed at the 2018 Annual Convention of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs in Kalapaki, Kauai; and

     WHEREAS, the Kamehameha Schools Kapālama, 98th Annual Song Contest Pre-Show, featured the process that the AALII PROGRAM Students took to engage with the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, supporting a movement started by Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaole over 100 years ago; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirtieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2019, that this body, on this 4th day of February 2019, hereby commends the students and teachers of the AALII PROGRAM at Nānākuli High and Intermediate School for their commitment to their civic duty and offers its warmest aloha and best wishes for continued success in all future endeavors.

 

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

Commending the Students and Teachers of the Aalii Program.

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