The Committee on International and Legal Affairs met remotely on August 20, 2025, to deliberate on several agenda items including resolutions, a bill, and executive session matters. The meeting addressed the reappointment of a neighborhood board member, an audit of the CORE program, and proposed legislation on intergovernmental agreements.
All right, calling to order the committee on international and legal affairs. Noting the uh the presence of all members. Um, and the following members are participating remotely by video conference. Representative Tupola. Um, in accordance to section 92 3.7, HRS, please identify each person who is with you at your location. Allah Cherni Shimoto, there's no one with me. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Pursuant to Section 92 317 HRS, this meeting will be conducted as a remote meeting by interactive conference technology with the following procedures in effect for the meeting. Members of the public will be allowed to provide oral testimony on all items on the agenda in person in the council chamber and remotely when each item, each agenda item is taken up. As both English and Hawaiian are official languages of the state of Hawaii, pursuant to Article 15, section four of the Hawaii State Constitution and section one thing of the HRS, members of the public may testify in either language for oral testimonies offered in Ola Hawaii. Additional time may be necessary. Additional time as may be necessary will be allowed for testifiers to provide an English language translation on their testimony. Before testifying, each person shall state their name. Each speaker may not have anyone anyone else read their statement and is limited to a one-minute presentation on each item. Once in-person testimony has concluded, I'll proceed to those who have registered to testify real remotely by video conference. When your name is called, please monitor your screen and activate your audio feed when prompted. Please utilize the raised hand feature in Zoom to be called on. For those joining us by telephone only, please press star nine to indicate your desire to speak. Some friendly reminders and tips. Video conference from a quiet location if possible. If you are also watching the proceedings on Olelo, please mute your television at the time when you are called to testify. When the timer on the screen reaches zero, please conclude your remarks promptly. HRS section 92-313.7 requires all votes at remote meetings be conducted by a roll call unless unanimous. Therefore, I will call for objections, and if there are any, I will call for a roll call vote. For those council members participating from outside of the council chamber in accordance to HRS section 92-317, the meeting will automatically recess if we lose audio visual contact with you and cannot reconvene until we establish contact. Therefore, please announce beforehand if you are voluntarily signing out of the meeting. For written testimonies, including including the testifiers email address, email the testifiers address, email address, and phone number will be available to the public as described on the posted agenda. Okay, moving to agenda item number one, resolution 25-218. We are gonna call um first Larry Vere if he's present to give a statement or managing director. Yeah, thank you. Um Mike Formia, managing director. So I just spoke to Lloyd, the executive director, and he said that there was a communication with counsel that he's out sick today. Okay. All right, appreciate. Okay, um, so we'll move to in-person testifiers. Is there anyone registered? Chair, there are none. Okay, moving on to or is there anyone in the chamber who'd like to testify and is not on the list? Okay, see none. Uh moving to remote testimony. Anyone registered? Chair, there are none. Okay, I don't see anyone on remote testimony. Um, any questions or discussion? I'm not sure who you'd ask, but okay, go ahead. Thank you, Chair. Just quick discussion. I know that Larry Mr. Verre would have really liked to have been here, but due to his um illness right now, he wasn't able to.