Up to Wendish. He's got Pdoula in the front court. Doula gets the shot off but it gets blocked aside. fast break points as Lauriano Alejandra is cleaning the glass and >> we've got a timeout on the floor. The Wolverines lead now skyrocketed up to 3416. >> So Scott, we talked about back in the first half that you are the new president of the Ashlin Business Association. Can you tell us a little bit about that organization? Yeah. So, um you know, the ABA when it started around 30 years ago or so was really about advocacy for businesses in town. Uh they banded together um so that they could kind of have a voice in town uh when meeting with the town leadership, stuff of that nature. Um and really trying to get back to that now. Um so for example uh the conservation committee is has a sustainability uh bylaw that they're talking about where restaurants in town uh would need to have they they have to use recyclable materials.
Having the ability to control that kind of investment centrally um is a huge benefit. But importantly, nothing has happened in that regard. Those monies are 100% under the control of each of the individual campuses at this time. Um so I'm not sure where the perception came that it was centralized. It's not. It's actually held at each individual campus. There's nothing in fact that is standing between them and spending that money. And I have on more than one occasion asked those chancellors to identify strategic investments for w to which to to employ that money that is sitting there and um and I'm not I haven't seen anything particularly that we're able to move on. So part of my challenge is where are the centralized issues like EAB navigate and student success and creating a common standard of care for each student across the university is the point and it's not I I think Luis is new but we've always taxed those accounts to do centralized functions.
Hearing none. Uh questions. Members, I just have Go ahead, Senator. for the DOE. Have you awarded diplomas in the past? >> Aloha, Senator. Thank you so much for the question. Previously, this bill was um before 2020. So, we did award at that time 12 coupon diplomas to veterans. Since then, we do have two individuals um veterans who are interested in receiving their diplomas. At this time, we've issued them certificates. We wanted them to have the opportunity to celebrate and participate in graduation ceremony and we're hoping that if this bill passes we'll be able to issue them actual diplomas. >> So the bill in 2020 doesn't allow you to continue to do this. You have to come back every year to ask for those. >> We're hoping that with this amendment we'll be able to continue um but it did sunset in 2020 so we had to stop at that time.
Right? And we're not for or against or anything of that nature, but we want to make sure that every restaurant knows about it. Right? So let's say somebody bought your neighbor's house and they were going to tear it down and put up something like a I don't know, I'm making this up, a chicken farm or something, right? Well, you as an abutter would get notified, right? But restaurants aren't getting notified by this. Like you can read it in the paper. You can, you know, the town does its public notification, but they don't go specifically to each restaurant to say, "Hey, this may affect you." So, we want to make sure that we are helping businesses get notified of anything that might happen or change in town. Um, not to politicize anything or have an opinion on it, but just like, "Hey, this is a thing.
It's the only way that we can where there is you know common technology or there's common things that are employed across the 10. the fact that it's sitting in individual counts doesn't mean we aren't using it for the benefit of the whole. So that that there's no change there from where we currently have been.
>> So there's no end date on this? >> No. And how does the the DOE um how does a department verify eligibility of these individuals? >> Um great question. So we have an application and with that application they do submit documentation showing that they were enlisted and drafted during that time and then based on that application we then work in proceeding and processing the diploma. >> Very awesome. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you members. If there are no other questions, uh we'll move on to Senate Bill 2687. Description requires Department of Education to develop an imp and implement a 100 infantry battalion history curricula plan beginning with the 2027 2028 school year. Establishes a one-year 100 infantry battalion history curriculum pilot program within certain public high schools during the 2627 school year. requires a report to the legislature. U Kathy Hayashi, it's uh aloha chairs and vice chairs.
You should be aware." Um, and then they can know to to voice their opinions at the meetings. Mhm. >> Now we'll pick this back up the next stoppage. Clockers with the ball. Sabadini for three and he nails it. [applause] >> Big three-pointer for Sabadini coming out of the out of the timeout. Clocker still down 34-19. Just under five minutes to go in the quarter. >> Good block. [cheering] [applause] Little surprised with that foul call, but it looks like Ortiz is going to go to the line. He gave a little bit of a shove there to create some space and then somehow drew the foul. >> He was a block into a high five and it counts as a foul. >> So Sabadini gets whistled for the foul, his third. And Ortiz knocks down the first free throw. So with three fouls, he'll head to the bench replaced by Jacob Guyro.
>> Members, any any questions? >> Senator, >> thanks President maybe you can clarify what what are the balances that you know I guess maybe start with the biggest which is Monoa and you know who's the biggest, who's the smallest and what's the aggregate I suppose if you add them all up. >> Sure. I believe um >> VP Salivaria has that information. >> Thank you, Senator. Uh Luis Salivia, vice president, CFO for the University of Hawaii. Uh right now the largest balance uh of the uh tuition and fee special fund does exist within Monoa. But if you look at the overall distribution of uh of how it is between the four years and the two years, the four-year campuses have approximately 185 in tuition and fee special balance, but the community colleges have approximately 142. So it's very close when you think about uh the difference between the four and the two-year colleges.
Terry Yoshiima, assistant superintendent from the department of education. So, uh we stand on our testimony providing comments. While the state uh department of education values the history of the 100th infantry battalion, it suggests that SB2687 is not needed because the topic is already integrated into existing social studies standards and the bill conflicts with the board of education policies regarding curriculum governance that is with the teachers and the schools. Thank you for the opportunity to testify. So, you're not you're not in support of um we don't think it's necessary at this time. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Um let's see. Hawaii Military Affairs Council in support. Anyone else here wishing to testify on this measure? Yes, please come forward. Yes. Just identify yourself. My name is Kathy Hayashi and I'm the president of the 100th Infantry Battalion. >> Okay. I thought I called you but I guess got mixed up with you.
Two of the three Jacobs on this roster now in on the floor for the blockers as Ortiz hits the second free throw. >> They did that specifically for you just to make [laughter] your job easier. >> So, the funny part is that both Jacobs have brothers that are the same age as my younger son, Logan. >> Fun fact. >> Very fun. [laughter] Actually, that's the most fun fact we've heard tonight. >> You're going to fit right in here, Scott. [laughter] >> 3619 Wolverines with the ball. Three ball attempt. Iron no good. Deep rebound out of bounds. Clocker ball. Want to give a quick shout out to our crew tonight. always uh making the extra effort to be here early, get things set up, and they are the ones responsible for bringing you the audio and video live here on YouTube. So, special thanks to Luis Miranda, Brady Monosino, and Jeff Hall.
But to specifically answer your question, Monoa is the largest with approximately 93 million in the tuition and fees special fund. The smallest in this particular case would be Winward Community College at about 6.6 million. >> And then what what is the difference between what is your policy versus what is excess? >> Uh it is approximately about 100. It's aboutund and 116 170 million between the 16% policy versus the balance. Cuz right now the balances that we have in the reserve in the reserve accounts is approximately 144 of which the total balance in the tuition and fee special fund right now is 326. >> Okay. >> Thank you chair. >> Uh because currently uh uh you can retain your unspent balances and you don't have to report it. >> No, we we do report you report it. Um but I think the bigger picture is the disclosure and the reporting process because how often do you report it?
>> I think I got mixed up with the other one. I'm sorry guys. I'm a hayashi too. That's why. >> Okay. May the >> I'm sorry. Go ahead. >> Oh chairs, vice chairs, thank you so much for hearing this. Um we stand on our testimony and we want to strongly support this bill. Um my father Toku Chihashi was in the hundth as well as the 442 and we believe there's a lot of value in sharing the legacy of these men that were plantation workers segregated and distrusted and they were able to rise above all of this to become the most decorated in US military history. There are a lot of values on how they were able to do it that we'd like to share like the obligation which is like giri don't shame the family name a lot of values that I think I have uh learned from my father and also I was um senior vice president of Verizon and went to Smith College as well as a lot of leadership and I believe that we should share these values with our kei so they can become high performance thinkers.
>> There we [cheering] go. Good movement. They just pushed it around. Got to the open man right under the basket. Great job. >> I'll tell you what, Padoul is finding himself open in the low post frequently tonight. hasn't always gotten the shots to fall to, you know, to make his presence felt, but he did it there. Just under four minutes to go now. Long pass off the backboard. [cheering] >> Rossy brings it down and that press gets pulled back just a little bit here. Scott. >> There's the double team. Almost forces a turnover. Anish reels it in. [cheering] Back to Cassandra. Here's a three ball attempt. No good. Rossi with the rebound. Puts it back. No good. Another rebound for the Clockers. And this time it's Guyro for two. So, so frequently we see this Clocker team with multiple opportunities getting some rebounds, but they can never get those shot that shot to finally fall.
Not annually. >> Oh yes, >> we do report annually. It's part of the annual report that we do provide to the legislature. >> Yeah, this is this is all very public information that repeatedly is reported. Part of the reason we're talking about it is I have raised the issue as you know Senator Kim of my concern that we are not using these funds. We should never be sitting on on these kind of funds without productively employing them in some type of research or a return for the university. I think um I'm just hoping people don't go in and out um because the every time the door opens it's hard to hear. Um I think the concern is that the way it's it uh it's put out because it's not all in one place sometimes even when we ask a bud a budget way and means um it's not clear.
So we stand ready to work with the DOE on sharing some of this legacy because there's only six living veterans right now. And for my father, you know, we they're we're all in our 70s. So as far as sharing the legacy of living with these men and modeling their behavior, I think there's a time is of the essence to to share these values.
They did it there. >> Yep. >> Good. >> Keep it up. [cheering] >> And he's with a wild reverse layup. His [cheering] second basket of the night. Three-pointer in the first half and a field goal here. Clockers still down 36-25, but the Clocker student section coming alive. Rossy with a block. [cheering] >> Suffocating defense down there. [laughter] >> I'll tell you what, if I had knew better, I would have think he was building a campsite at the bottom of the lane. I was waiting for that 3se second call. >> So, Padulla gets whistled there, his second foul. team's third. >> Lauriano Anderson misses the first of two. >> Knock that one down. So, he has hit the trifecta here in the second half. A free throw, a field goal, and a three-pointer. 245 in counting to go in the third quarter. Clockers down 3725. Wide open three for Guo.
I know you sent me the CIP. I called you back and I said, you know, I still not getting the information that we asked for. So, I think that's where um some of the points is coming is that while you give us pages and pages of stuff, it's very hard to decipher because it's not clear >> as to how some of these some of these funds. >> It's like now when you look when we had this reserve balance, you lumped up all of the community colleges, correct? And then I asked for it and then we had to ask again to finally get it broken down by community college to see exactly there is seven commu seven or nine community colleges seven community colleges and four right for um four year >> three three four year so and they're almost the same but you got seven campuses at the at theund >> 42 million >> I I think part of that and we're always happy to report in whatever form that you prefer but you allocate the money to the as a number.
So any questions you have? >> Thank you. Why don't you sit there? Members, uh, anyone else wishing to testify on this hearing now? Sit. >> Singers. >> I'm fine. Go ahead. Please identify yourself. I think I know you, but you can go ahead and testify. Identify yourself, >> please. [laughter] >> I thought you were talking to somebody on the floor. I'm so sorry. Uh, hi um, committee chair and, uh, committee. Thanks for allowing me to testify today. My name is Steve Sue. I'm a filmmaker currently producing a feature documentary on the 100th 442nd regimenal combat team. I stand on the written testimony that I submitted uh, for SB2687. And I I would like to point out that as a filmmaker, I do a lot of research around the community. And if the DOE does have a line item for this type of information, I can tell you that they haven't really been fulfilling that goal because I just know people don't know this story and that's why we're making a movie on it.
No good. Follows his shot, but >> ends up getting called with the foul. You know, that's that fine line between just hard defense and, you know, that way. >> Sure. >> But being aggressive and being too aggressive. >> Yep. >> But they put the effort in. >> Free ball by Ortiz. No good. Rebound. Wolverines. >> Thought Connor Bots had a clean block there, but refs thought differently. >> Wolverines head to the bonus. And Bas with his first foul of the night. >> So Liano Alejandro back to the line to shoot two. >> Looks like he's starting to find his touch. >> Is that his This is his fifth and sixth free throw. >> I've lost track. I just count the points. >> [laughter] >> And even that I have trouble with it. As our longtime listeners know, I'm a bit math challenged. >> Bots has got position in the lane, but can't get the shot to fall.
And so we both have the reporting from the from the Senate and and the legislature as to how we receive the money and then we have internal accounting principles of how it's broken down between the seven. Quite often that money is held at the community college level for that system within a system. So it actually is it's both and it's and it's how you want that information reported. We're happy to provide it. >> Yeah. And I think the problem is with while it sits at the community college now the understanding is that there was poss there was a a proposal possible proposal to take all of the money and centralize it from each of the community colleges and the I know the community colleges are concerned because some of them have been very fiscally responsible so they have some nice balances there um and you know and then I know like in Manoa's case there's a lot of spending that have gone on in a lot of areas in which they have some possible shortfalls uh there and so the community colleges feel like you know that they shouldn't be supplementing for Monoa and some of the mistakes that Monoa might have made.