CAB Community Issues List 2019

The Community Advisory Board (CAB) is an adjunct to HPR's Board of Directors, and provides feedback to HPR management on station programming and community outreach opportunities. One of their key functions is to provide insight into important community issues for our news team to consider. As of July 3, 2019, the following items had been identified by the CAB. This list is not meant to be inclusive or in priority order.

Education Issues: Hawai‘i School System, talent/brain drain, early childhood
Healthcare Issues: Accessibility, Costs, Availability of medical professionals, mental health
Native Hawaiian Culture: Addressing issues/stories with the Native Hawaiian perspective, degradation of the traditional Hawaiian lifestyle, cultural vs economic development
Economic Issues: Economic disparity, poverty, unemployment, unions, cost of living, living wages, wealth gap, economic development, economic diversity, entrepreneurship
Homelessness: solutions for diversity of population
Housing: Affordable housing, Vacation rentals
Environmental Issues: Water, Loss of habitat, impact of tourism, trash
Community Planning: transportation, housing,
Immigration and Assimilation: Micronesian racism
Local Food and Agriculture
Arts and Culture
Tourism: Impact/cost of tourism to economy, environment, services, and culture, vacation rentals
Climate Change: impact of storms, sea levels
Elderly Population: availability of services, including support for families
2020 Census: education, impact of census
Civic: voting, civic and community engagement
Renewable Energy: solar panels, Hawai‘i’s potential to lead