STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3133

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    GOV. MSG. NO. 426

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred Governor's Message No. 426, submitting for study and consideration the nomination of: 

 

Island Burial Council, Island of Molokai

 

G.M. No. 426

KEKAMAIKAIKAMAIKALANI HELM,

for a term to expire 6-30-2014,

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     Your Committee has reviewed the personal history, resume, and statements of the nominee, and finds Kekamaikaikamaikalani Helm to have the necessary qualifications for the Island Burial Council for the Island of Molokai.

 

     Testimony in support of the nomination was submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Mr. Helm is presently a member of the Island Burial Council for the Island of Molokai, and represents the geographic area of West Molokai.  He is presently employed as a Community Building Facilitator for the Queen Liliuokalani Children's Center, Molokai Unit.  Mr. Helm has served on the Board of Ka Honua Momona International, as a member of the Native Hawaiian Historic Preservation Council, and is presently a member of the Aha Kukui O Molokai Canoe Club, Special Olympics Hawaii, Hui Malama O Moomomi, and Na Pua Nohi Naauao.  He served on the Hokulea crew on the first leg of the voyage from Hawaii to Rapa Nui in 1999, and participated with the Hokulea and Makalii voyaging Inter-Island Sailing Project from 1995 to 1996.

 

     Mr. Helm learned subsistence hunting, gathering, farming, and fishing practices from his family and considers these practices essential to his physical and spiritual well-being.  He is deeply committed to marine resource protection, traditional management methods, and education.  While he worked as a Resource Manager for Hui Malama O Moomomi, he planned, implemented, and coordinated projects for on-site classroom activities involving students of all grades from neighbor islands and the mainland.  He has more than fifteen years experience counseling and working with youth to pass along his skills and knowledge of subsistence living.  He is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts with an emphasis on Social Work and Marine Science from Maui Community College.  Your Committee looks forward to Mr. Helm contributing his dedication to the perpetuation of the Hawaiian culture to the Island Burial Council.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee, after full consideration of the background, experience, and qualifications of the nominee, has found the nominee to be qualified for the position to which nominated and recommends that the Senate advise and consent to the nomination.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair