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Kalawao County, Hawaii

First Issues Docket

Every dead end in the money trail becomes a numbered pursuit here. When a document is obtained and ingested, the issue gets stamped with the date and what it revealed. 1 of 2 complete.
#1
Establish what a Kalawao “budget” even is.

A county with no elected government and no appropriation ordinance.

2026-08-21 — what this revealed: Kalawao has no county budget. By HRS §326-34 it is administered by the Hawaii Department of Health; the DOH Director (Kenneth Fink) is ex-officio mayor. Its public costs are a ~$4.3M/yr line in the state DOH budget for the Kalaupapa settlement. This is the honest answer: there is no county total to walk.
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#2
Pull the exact DOH Kalaupapa appropriation.

The DOH legislative-report PDFs return 403 to automated fetchers; a browser-based pull would confirm the exact annual figure and staffing.

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