Office of Hawaiian Affairs elections this year cap off a turbulent period that began last summer, when board chairman Kai Kahele called for extensive revisions to OHA’s $137 million, two-year budget, prepared by then-CEO Stacy Ferreira. The changes and shifting priorities sparked objections from Ferreira and Kahele’s predecessor as chair, Carmen Hulu Lindsey, who with three other trustees criticized Kahele for disrupting operations and, in their view, usurping the CEO’s role. ...read more read less