Update from the legislative hearing on UH and the Stevie Wonder concert debacle. Capitol Watch reports:

That’s just one of 18 recommendations that have been identified by state Sen. Donna Mercado Kim’s special committee investigating the University of Hawaii and its athletics department.

Kim wants a fiscal and management audit of the UH conducted by the state auditor. Her committee also wants the UH Board of Regents to get training on the Sunshine Law and open records law,and to learn to follow its own rules.

The Senate Committee on Accountability is holding a briefing at the Capitol on its findings. Civil Beat will have a full report later Monday (Nov. 19). 

The committee’s findings come not long after the Regents reached agreement with UH President M.R.C. Greenwood to continue in her job, the release of a fact-finder’s report commissioned by the Regents and the arrest of two men implicated in the bungled Stevie Wonder concert that launched the Senate’s investigation.

“Ultimately, your Committee finds that those persons in the highest authority over their respective portions of the university failed to perform their oversight duties,” the report states.

The Regents also “failed to provide sufficient oversight and governance control over the University System.”

Read the Senate committee’s 32-page report here.

Photo of Stevie Wonder courtesy Alan Light.