Source: Hawaii DOH — Kalaupapa Settlement Report to the Legislature
Source locator: Not yet pinned — the transcription predates storing the source PDF. Pinning every number to its page or locator is part of Docket #7.
Layer: appropriation — Layer one: what No county government — administered by the Hawaii Department of Health authorized to be spent. What was actually spent is layer two (audit and treasurer reports); which vendor got which check is layer three (check register).
Checked: Not independently checkable yet — no complete set of sub-lines exists in the corpus to sum against.
Retrieved: 2026-08-21

Note on this line

Kalawao has no county budget of its own. Its public costs appear as a line in the Hawaii Department of Health budget: about $4.3 million a year for the Kalaupapa settlement (healthcare, administration, maintenance, food service) supporting roughly 33 staff. Figure from the DOH’s annual legislative reports; approximate.

how this line is traced

Reconstructed — and the trail stops here. To see who this money actually reached, someone has to pull records, minutes, or a check register. It often stays dark.

There's another way. If the county paid this line from a transparent, line-attributed account, it would publish its own itemized transactions — payee, amount, date — the moment each payment cleared. No request required; the dead end becomes a list. That's the idea behind receipts by rails, filed as a solution to the transparency question — read it and weigh in.