This meeting is a remote meeting under Section 92-3.7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and includes an in-person meeting location open to the public and a virtual meeting option that allows the public to participate remotely, including viewing the meeting virtually and providing remote oral testimony. Most board members will be participating virtually from nonpublic locations. Go to http://boe.hawaii.gov/Pages/ListenLivetoBoardMeetings.aspx for information on using the virtual meeting option.

STATE OF HAWAII

BOARD OF EDUCATION

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT 

COMMITTEE

MEMBERS:

Shanty Asher      Kaimana Barcarse     

Lyla Berg     Lynn Fallin  

    Catherine Payne     Kenneth Uemura 

Kili Namauʻu, Committee Chairperson

Bill Arakaki, Committee Vice Chairperson

FINANCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE

MEMBERS:

Bill Arakaki     Kili Namauʻu        

    Catherine Payne

Bruce Voss, Committee Chairperson

Lynn Fallin, Committee Vice Chairperson

NOTICE OF MEETING

Thursday, April 21, 2022

11:00 a.m. 

In-Person

Queen Liliuokalani Building

1390 Miller Street, Room 404

Honolulu, Hawaii  96813

Virtual

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AGENDA

1. Call to Order 

2. *Public Testimony on Board of Education (“Board”) Agenda Items

3. Discussion Items

1. Update on Department of Education’s educational plan and fiscal plan to use federal funds in the second round of the Educational Stabilization Fund’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (“ESSER II”) and in the third round of ESSER funds authorized under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ESSER ARP”) approved by the Board on December 16, 2021
   

4. Recommendation for Action

1. Committee Action on amendment to Department of Education’s fiscal plan to use federal funds in ESSER II and ESSER ARP approved by the Board on December 16, 2021

5. Late Public Testimony on Board Agenda Items

NOTE: Anyone who missed the opportunity to testify before the relevant agenda item will be allowed to testify at the end of the meeting.

6. Adjournment

Meeting material is available online at boe.hawaii.gov.

The Board accepts written testimony on any agenda item and strongly encourages it as the primary means of submitting testimony. Written testimony received 24 hours before the meeting will be posted publicly and distributed to Board members before the meeting. Further instructions on submitting written testimony is available here: https://boe.hawaii.gov/Pages/Submit-testimony.aspx. 

The Board accepts oral testimony in-person and virtually. To sign up to testify either in-person or virtually, use the form posted here: http://boe.hawaii.gov/Pages/Submit-testimony.aspx. If you are testifying virtually, you must register and log in to WebEx using the same name you used to sign up to testify. Each individual is allotted four (4) minutes, but the Chairperson can reduce the amount of time allowed. 

In accordance with Hawaii’s Sunshine Law (Hawaii Revised Statutes, Chapter 92), all testimony, whether written or oral, should be related to an item that is on the agenda.

The Board provides a live broadcast of its meetings. Information on accessing this live broadcast is available here: https://boe.hawaii.gov/Pages/ListenLivetoBoardMeetings.aspx.

If you need an auxiliary aid, service, or other accommodation due to a disability, please contact the Board Office at BOE.Hawaii@boe.hawaii.gov or at (808) 586-3334 as soon as possible. Requests made as early as possible will give staff additional time to try to fulfill your request. Staff will try to fulfill all requests, but cannot guarantee fulfillment.