The Government Relations, Ethics, and Transparency Committee met on June 22, 2026, to receive a status update on the lawsuit Leo Kairas v. County of Maui et al. (Civil File 2CCV-26-000138) and to consider Resolution 26-99, which aims to address conflicts of interest by requiring all written settlement offers to be transmitted to the Council and all invoices from special counsel to be reviewed by the Office of Council Services (OCS). The meeting began at 9:21 AM, recessed until 9:40 AM to allow late-arriving members to join, and reconvened at 9:41 AM. After an executive session from 10:42 AM to 2:03 PM, the committee reconvened and approved the resolution.
Go. Well, the government relations ethics and transparency committee meeting of June twenty second, twenty twenty six come to order. It is nine twenty-one AM. I am your chair, Colin Baton. Members, in accordance with the Sunshine Law, please identify by name who, if anyone is in the room vehicle or workspace with you today. Chair Lee. And um, I'm home alone in my workspace. Hello, Chair and Tancy, everyone are here at my home office and I'm also here by myself. No testifiers in HANA. Thank you. Thank you, Member Sinenti. Member Sugi Mura. Good morning, everybody. Tancy, and looking forward to an interesting meeting. Thank you. Thank you, Member Sugimora. And Member Johnson. Tancy, Chair, Council members, community members, there's no testifiers here at the IE District Office. I'm alone on my side of the office and here and ready to work. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Member Johnson. Tancy, everybody. So we have we have established quorum, but we have heard from two of our colleagues that they are on their way. I had hoped they'd be back by now, but it seems that they are still in transit. And so I'd like to give them a few more minutes to join us. My proposals to recess until 9 40. We'll come back then. I don't know what kind of traffic we have right now that's keeping people from uh being in the chamber, but I'd like to give them an opportunity to hear, especially since uh, you know, um special counsel has uh made it a point to join us today. So that being the case, I'd like to without objections, I'd like to recess until 9 40 a.m. No objections. Thank you, members. This meeting is now in recess. Well, the government relations ethics and transparency committee meeting of June 22, 2026. Please come back to order. The time is now 9 41 a.m. Chair would like to recognize our two uh the two members who have now joined us, Committee Vice Chair Nohilani Uhajans. Aloha Chair. I apologize for my tardiness. Thank you, Vice Chair, and Councilmember Tom Cook. Hello, Chair. Thank you for your patience. Thank you. Uh, and then for the record, Member Paulton and Member Rollin Rollins Fernandez are both excused as they are representing us at um an HSAC meeting at this time. Okay. From the corporate from Corporation Council, we have with us two individuals. Um, Deputy Corporation Council Tom Colby, and I'm sorry, can I ask you to introduce yourself? I don't have your. Yes, um, Deputy Corporation Council Susan Leader. Thank you, Susan. Uh okay.