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An art dealer and an anthropologist have filed a complaint with the state Department of the Attorney General accusing Bishop Museum’s board of directors of breaching their fiduciary duties and squandering the museum’s charitable assets.
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AG Complaint - Bishop Museum

An art dealer and an anthropologist have filed a complaint with the state Department of the Attorney General accusing Bishop Museum’s board of directors of breaching their fiduciary duties and squandering the museum’s charitable assets.
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STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ‘TAX & CHARITIES DIVISION, “425 QUEEN STREET owoiuun, Hawa 36813 (o08) S65-1480 TAX & CHARITIES DIVISION COMPLAINT FORM Important information about filing a complaint. Tax & Charities Division’s jurisdiction is generally limited to public benefit corporations, charitable organizations, professional solicitors, professional fundraising counsels, and their charitable assets and/or charitable solicitation activities in the State of Hawaii. As part of the review and investigation process, the organization you are complaining about may be informed of this matter and provided certain information about your complaint, [ YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION Name: Caroline Yacoe Address: 223 Paiko Drive, Honolulu, Hl 96821 Telephone number(s): (808) 396-3326 Email address: cyacoepp@[Link] ORGANIZATION INFORMATION Please provide the following information, if available, for the subject organization of this complaint. Name of organization, include any other names it uses: Bishop Museum Address of organization: 1525 Bernice Street Telephone number(s) of organization: (808) 847-3511 Website of organization; [Link] Email address(es) of organizatior Tax & Charities Complaint Form v2 communications @bishopmuseyp.af9, |» 99 >> 12 930 a 5 ATNUOL Page 1of4 i Please describe your complaint here: (please include any documents relating to the complaint and do not send originals as any documents submitted will not be returned) Please see Attachment 1 Have charitable assets been lost, wasted, or diverted from proper charitable purposes, or is there a danger that such loss will soon occur? Mllyes Ono If yes, please describe the type of charitable asset that has been lost, wasted, or diverted and give your best estimate of the amount lost or at risk: Please see Attachment 1 Has this matter been reported to the organization or with any government agency? @yes Ono If yes, what action has already been taken, either within the organization or with other government agencies, to try to resolve this problem? Please provide the name of the organization and/or government agency, contact person at the organization and/or government agency, the date of contact, and the outcome. Ms. Yacoe wrote a letter to the Board which went unanswered. Dr. Rose wrote two letters to the Board which also went unanswered. Tax & Chari 's Complaint Form v2 Page 2 of 4 Have you reported your complaint to any law enforcement agency? Olves Mino If yes, please provide the name of the agency, the approximate date when you filed your report or complaint, and any report or complaint numbers. NIA Have you filed a lawsuit or other legal action (for example, medi: to your dispute? Clves Mino ion or arbitration) related If yes, please provide the name of the court, the case number, and attach copies of any relevant documents including any judgments or orders issued in the case. Do not send inals as any documents submitted will not be returned. NIA List the name, address, telephone number(s), and email address(es), if known, of persons you believe may be responsible for this problem: Please see Attachment 2 List the name, address, telephone number(s), and email address(es) of any other person who may have additional information concerning the complaint: Please see Attachment 2 ‘Tax & Charities Complaint Form v2 Page 3 of 4 CERTIFICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | | understand that knowingly submitting false or untrue information may constitute a violation of Hawaii Revised Statutes § 710-1063. | understand the Attorney General may disclose my name, address, and contents of the complaint to other government agencies for further review and action, if necessary. | understand that investigation and prosecution is at the discretion of the Attorney General and that the Attorney General does not represent me in this dispute. | certify and acknowledge that | have read and understand all of the above statements and my statements and attachments provided as part of this complaint are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. ‘Complainant's signature (electronic signature is acceptable): Date: Cascine. Rocoe, OS DA Oecember DOL Print name here: Caroline Yacoe Ocheck here if you request that your identity remain confidential. Unless you consent, or are required by law or the court, the Attorney General will not make your personal information available to the public. Please send the completed form and any attachments to: Tax & Charities Division Department of the Attorney General 425 Queen Street Honolulu, HI 96813 or [Link] Tax & Charities Complaint Form v2 Page 4 of 4 December 21, 2022 Clare Connors, Esq Attorney General ‘Anne Lopez, Esq. Attomey General Nominee Department of the Attorney General and Gary Suganuma, Eq. Department of the Attorney General Tax & Charities Division 425 Queen Street Honolulu, Hawai'i 96813 Re: COMPLAINT AGAINST BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP MUSEUM’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND REQUEST TO INVESTIGATE BREACHES OF FIDUCIARY DUTIES AND WASTING OF CHARITABLE ASSETS, Dear Ms. Connors, Ms. Lopez, and Mr. Suganuma, ‘On behalf of myself and other concerned citizens in the community, I respectfully request that the Tax & Charities Division of the Department of the Attorney General investigate the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (“Museum”) Board of Directors (“Board”) for breaches of fiduciary duties and wasting of the Museum’s charitable assets. This request is submitted to the Division, as well as to the incoming and outgoing Attorneys General because the Department and specifically, the Division, has the supervisory oversight to investigate the Board's breaches of fiduciary duties and wasting of the Museum’s charitable assets. The Division must fulfill its kuleana to protect the Museum and preserve its collections and charitable assets for the public. In July of this year, the Board placed three of the Museum’s executives on indefinite administrative leave, which caused great concern in the community because it was reported that the removal did not constitute any disciplinary action, nor was any misconduct of any of the executives alleged.' More importantly, the removal of the Museum’s top leadership for non- disciplinary reasons, pending an investigation that was expected to be completed months ago, threatens the Museum’s operations, finances, sustainability, and reputation. This is a matter of great public importance. The Museum is formally designated the State Museum of Natural and Cultural History and is a vital resource and cultural treasure to the people of Hawaii. It is our National Museum, ‘Therefore, the welfare of the Museum is a public matter and it is the State's kuleana to investigate the harm to the Museum caused by its Board ‘The Board’s removal of the Museum’s three executives is now in its sixth month, and the Board has not been transparent about their reasons for overstepping their governance role and inserting themselves into a personnel matter the Museum President has publicly stated she was already handling. The Board’s action destabilized the Museum’s operations. In fact, the Board has not provided any information to the public on the reasons they removed the executives in the first place, or how and when they will resolve the destabilizing situation they caused. ATTACHMENT 1 Page | of 9 Uncertainty over the future of the management of the Museum persists; the Museum’s reputation as a world-class institution has been marred; and financial harm has already befallen the Museum, for it appears that a historic $17.5 million in State funding secured under President / CEO Melanie Ide’s leadership? has been delayed or suspended. There has been no news about its release. The Board has apparently placed its own interests and agenda ahead of the Museum’, and the resulting harm to the Museum is directly caused by the Board’s breach of its fiduciary duties. 1 BISHOP MUSEUM'S SIGNIFICANCE TO THE STATE AND THE PEOPLE OF HAWAII ‘The Museum was founded in 1889 to house the royal family heirlooms of the Hawaiian monarchy. It grew to become one of the largest and most important natural history museums in the world, It is the largest museum in Hawai'i, the largest State museum in the United States, and the premier museum of the Pacific In 1988, the Museum was formally designated the “State Museum of Natural and Cultural History” through Act 398, which acknowledged that Bishop Museum served(s) over fifty State agencies, departments and affiliated organizations, and without which the many questions about Hawai'i’ (and the Pacific’s) people and environment could not be answered.* In 1992, the Museum was formally designated the repository of the Hawai'i Biological Survey, which records every plant and animal in the State of Haw. Today, the Museum’s over 25 million objects, both physical and digital, comprise the best Hawaii and Pacific collections in the world. The Library & Archives is one of three main Pacific libraries in the world, and half of its collection of more than 90,000 items is considered rare. The Bishop Museum Press is the oldest continually existing publisher in the United States west of the Mississippi River’ and disseminates knowledge about Hawai'i’s and the Pacific’s natural and cultural history worldwide through its publications. ‘The Hawaii State Legislature explained the significance of the Museum to Hawai'i The legislature finds that the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, officially designated as the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a distinguished scientific, cultural, and educational institution for the State of Hawaii, whose mission is to perpetuate Hawaii's natural and cultural heritage. No other agency is tasked with the responsibility of preserving and protecting Hawaii's invaluable collections of primary source materials and more than one hundred years of research across the Pacific region The legislature recognizes that the research and primary source material stewarded at the museum is a global resource that is unique, essential, and necessary to address the challenges we face today, including massive biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and cultural resilience in the face of climate change. ‘The latter challenge is especially apparent, as sea level rise is currently impacting Hawaii's coastal infrastructure and resources.® ATTACHMENT 1 Page 2 of 9 IL THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S AUTHORITY AND KULEANA TO. INVESTIGATE ALLEGED BREACHES OF FIDUCIARY DUTIES AND WASTING OF ASSETS. {Charitable or nonprofit corporations may be subject to statutory supervisory auth of the attomey general, who may institute judicial proceedings for mismanagement by the directors or trustees of the corporation or in exceeding or failing to carry out its charitable or corporate purposes.” discretion.” FLETCHER CYCLOPEDIA CORPORATIONS Vol. 5 § 2104, p. 569 (2019), “The State Attomeys General are the public face of nonprofits and are responsible for consumer protection of donor contributions and oversight of nonpfofits” assets.” Mark S. Blodgett ef. al., State Oversight of Nonprofit Governance: Confronting the Challenge of Mission Adherence Within a Multi-Dimensional Standard. 32. JOURNAL OF LAW & COMMERCE, 81, 91 (Fall 2013), The Attorney General represents the public interest in the protection of charitable assets. HRS § 28-5,2(a). The Hawai'i Supreme Court explained: “The function of the attorney general, as parens patriae of charitable trusts, is to oversee the activities of the trustees to the end that the ‘ust is performed and maintained in accordance with the provisions of the trust document, and to bring any abuse or deviation on the part of the trustees to the attention of the court for correction.” Midkiff v. Kobayashi, 54 Haw. 299, 335-336, 507 P.2d 724, 745 (1973) (citing Hite ¥. Queen's Hospital, 36 Haw, 250, 262 (1942). In order that the trust may be maintained, itis, therefore, not only the right, but the duty of the state, through its law officers, to take action for their maintenance and enforcement. This duty is exercised in America as in England through the attorney ‘general, who, therefore, is a proper, though he may not be a necessary, party plaintiff or defendant as the representative of the public, and whose duty itis to prevent the breach and to enforce the proper application of a charitable trust, and to compel the restitution of any part thereof which has been diverted to other purposes. The state, through him as, parens patriae, superintends the management of all public charities, so that a suit brought by him to establish a charity becomes, in truth as well as in form, a suit to protect public interests, and is, in fact, the only method by which the public can make its interest in the charity effective Hite v. Queen's Hospital, 36 Haw. 250, 262 (1942) (citation omitted) The Attorney General has the authority under HRS § 28-5.2(b) to conduct an investigation, including exercising administrative subpoena power (HRS §28-2.5(b)). The Attorney General has authority to commence or intervene in an action to prevent, remedy, or obtain damages for the misapplication, diversion, or waste of a charitable asset; or breach of fiduciary or other legal duty in the governance, management, or administration of a charitable asset. HRS § 28-5.2(a)(3). Without any supervisory oversight, there is nothing to stop nonprofit boards from breaching their fiduciary duties and furthering their own narrow interests and agenda ahead of the organization and the public’s interest, as is currently the case with the Museum’s Board. The Board’s overstepping of their governance and supervisory function by letting the Museum sit in limbo for so long without skilled and experienced executive leadership is a situation within the ATTACHMENT 1 Page 3 of 9 Attorney General’s kuleana to investigate in the interest of protecting the Museum and preserving its collections and charitable assets for the public into the future. I. | NATURE OF THE COMPLAINT A. THE BOARD’S REMOVAL OF THREE EXECUTIVES WITHOUT REASON IS A BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTIES AND HAS CAUSED HARM TO THE MUSEUM. President / CEO Melanie Ide is a world-class architect and museum designer, having worked on prestigious institutions such as New York's American Museum of Natural History, the US. Capitol Visitor Center, the Clinton Presidential Library, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture,’ the Obama Presidential Library,* and the Museum’s own Hawaiian and Pacific Halls. Ms, Ide worked at the world’s largest museum planning and design firm, where she was a principal with decades of experience working with museums? Ms. Ide came to the Museum in 2018, “{T]he museum has suffered greatly under a host of horrific directors since Donald Duckworth. The Bishop Museum was literally re~ energized under the leadership of Melanie Ide, who not only brought a new vision, but also new exhibitions and public engagement under her direction. She changed the museum overnight with her energy and foresight. Melanie even obtained a 17.5-million-dollar pledge for support from the State legislature, the first time in many years, as well as other community pledges.”!” Simply put, Ms. Ide was the best and most qualified leader the Museum had in a generation, The Board has not been forthcoming with the public about its reasons for removing M5, Ide and two other executives. “The Board’s lack of communication and transparency has been shocking and damaging to [ ] Bishop Museum overall.”!" Notwithstanding the Board’s lack of transparency, it is very clear that the removal of the Museum’s three executives was fundamentally flawed, There is no reason the Board could not have done its investigation without placing the three executives on indefinite leave and usurping actual control of and compromising the day-to-day management of the Museum. “The current issue at hand appears to be a minor HR problem that should have been sorted out inhouse and within the ranks of the ‘museum, instead of becoming a public spectacle. The removal of the institution’s top three officers without notice invited unhelpful and damaging speculation about serious misconduct at the museum{_] Not only is the current situation shameful and a continued blight on the Bishop ‘Museum, it may also prove to be the final nail in the coffin for this unique, world class institution.”!? The boundary between leadership of the Board (governance) and day-to-day management (management) of any organization exists for good reason. The Board’s responsibility is to provide vision, leadership, and direction for the organization. Management's responsibility is to attend to the day-to-day operations that keep the organization running, such as hiring, terminating, and training personnel. Ide explained to the Board: Indeed, the Bylaws provide that my role as President is to provide “general charge and supervision of the Corporation” and “immediate supervision of the operations of the Museum.” Moreover, the Museum’s Governance Policy, which “provides the framework ATTACHMENT | Page 4 of 9 to guide the Board of Directors in the execution ofits fiduciary duties” clearly distinguishes the role of the Board and CEO. Whereas the Board is responsible “to review and approve the strategic direction of the Museum” by concentrating on “strategic policy-making” the CEO has “the general charge and supervision of the Museum and is responsible for the leadership, administration, management and effectiveness of the Museum’s operations.” The Board has been given no cause to usurp the CEO” authority by placing me on an unwarranted administrative leave, especially when the executive ‘management team had a plan in place to manage workplace concerns. The Board’s actions in this situation constitute an inappropriate overstep of its governance function." By overstepping its governance role to indefinitely manage a complex organization, the Board, through its interference and lack of understanding or concern for the full range of the Museum’s interests and activities, is negatively affecting the Museum's reputation, programs, relationships, and funding sources, resulting in the waste of the Museum’s charitable assets. As early as mid-July of this year, it was reported that “Ide says she is concemed about the impact her removal may have on the organization, including the interference in operations and damage to the museum’ relationships and reputation." Those concerns have come to fruition. ‘The Museum Board’s overreach into management by usurping control of a personnel matter which Ms. Ide publicly acknowledged was already being handled constitutes a violation of good governance practices and could constitute a breach of the fiduciary duties of care and ‘obedience, and could further constitute breaches of the fiduciary duties of loyalty and good faith if an investigation reveals that Board members were advancing their own interests and agenda cover the Museum’s. B, THE BOARD HAS WASTED THE MUSEUM'S CHARITABLE ASSETS. ‘The Museum’s charitable assets have no doubt been diminished by the Board’s usurping control of a personnel matter Ms. Ide was already handling, a management function, and handing it over to an investigator who is a former partner in the law firm hired by the Board.'® “To date, the board’s actions have resulted in nothing more than a big, billable event for a Bishop Street law firm, and greatly damaged the museum’s reputation worldwide.”"* Without an investigation, only the Board will know how much of the Museum’s money it has wasted on this matter ~ money that is no longer available for the care of the Museum's collections. The delay, withholding, or suspension of the aforementioned $17.5 million in State funding procured under Ms. Ide’s leadership is doubly damaging to the Museum. First, the non- award of those promised funds to date is damaging in and of itself because it delays or suspends needed benefits to the Museum such as collections care, exhibition development, attracting and hiring talent, and maintaining the Museum’s facilities. “The legislature finds that increasing the State's subsidy to the museum, which currently accounts for approximately four per cent of the museum's budget, would help to reliably support the museum's core operations, including core staffing, mandatory cooling and environmental security for core collections, and core internet, technology operations.”"” ATTACHMENT | Page 5 of 9 Second, the delay or withholding of those promised funds cripples the Museum's ability to procure and generate additional charitable assets, because nonprofit organizations leverage unrestricted funds (such as a majority of the $17.5 million State award) to attract more charitable assets in the form of restricted funds. The Hawai'i State Legislature explained how important it is for the Museum to have an award of unrestricted funds in order to attract more charitable assets: “The legislature recognizes that Bishop Museum’s core operations is the basis for significant grants and is used to leverage unrestricted funding. Every unrestricted dollar the ‘museum receives is used to bring in additional restricted funding, including funding from federal agencies.”"* ‘The Museum’s reputation is a charitable asset because it is able to attract talent and money on its good name and extraordinary history. The reputational damage suffered by the Museum by the Boards reckless actions is already palpable, as indicated by the news articles previously cited and several more. The reputational harm to the Museum may manifest as: Uncertainty and crisis of confidence affecting funding sources Negatively impacting staff morale Chilling relationships with existing donors Decreased ability to attract critical talent to the Museum Operational delays and the reduction or cancellation of public programs Damaging relationships with stakeholders and other community members Crippling the cultivation of new and existing donors C. THE MUSEUM IS LIKELY TO SUFFER FUTURE HARM IF THE BOARD CONTINUES TO DISREGARD GOOD GOVERNANCE PRACTICES AND BREACH ITS FIDUCIARY DUTIES. ‘The Board has breached its fiduciary duties to the detriment of the Museum, and intervention and investigation by the Attorney General is appropriate and necessary. There was never any perceivable objective reason for removing the three executives in the first place notwithstanding the Board’ desire to conduct a personnel investigation. The Board could have done an investigation without upending management and throwing the Museum into turmoil. ‘The Board has not only withheld information from the public about the reasons for removing the Museum’s three executives, it has also severely botched its own investigation. By the Board's own admission, the investigation was supposed to conclude in a few weeks — itis now six months later with no information disseminated to the public and with no end in sight. In mid-July, it was reported, “A board member tells HPR that an acting management team made up of longtime ‘museum employees has been put in place — adding that the investigation is anticipated to take weeks and not months.” ‘The Board has no plan for steering the Museum into calmer waters and stopping the hemorrhaging the money it is paying to its outside law firm and investigator, if they did, the investigation would have been completed several months ago as indicated by the board member. Meanwhile, the Museum is suffering every day by the simultaneous delay or withholding of the $17.5 million in State funding, the lack of leadership, the ongoing harm to its reputation, and the daily hemorrhaging of money for legal and investigative expenses. ATTACHMENT 1 Page 6 of 9 The fiduciary duty of care allows for a board member to rely on outside advice, but it does not protect a board member from liability if they receive advice and act contrary to it or ignore it altogether. The Board did not lack good advice. ‘The Board has the Museum’ s own in- house attorney — whom they removed without reason along with the other two executives — and the Board had the pulse of the community telling them they were not on the right course. When Ms. Ide submitted her resignation if the Board did not reverse course, there was an immense community outcry asking Ms, Ide to not resign. Further, the Board received good advice from Ms. Ide herself but chose not to listen. Ina letter to the Board dated July 17, 2022, Ms. Ide detailed the immediate and foreseeable future harm to the Museum if the Board did not correct its course. She clearly stated that the risks to the Museum’s funding sources did not emanate from her and were instead the result of the Board’s public suspension of the CEO for an indefinite period, without cause, and without notice of wrongdoing. Her specific concerns included the jeopardization of: $17.5M in State funding that was appropriated for FY23; $10 million in recurring State funding for operations that had been in discussion for FY24; Fundraising for a SSM strate; “Big funds” from a local foundation; Future projects with Kamehameha Schools, Trust of the Waipi‘o taro farmers and Amy B.H. Greenwell Garden; Membership and donations, and The reputational damage caused by placing the Museum’s three top executives con administrative leave and linking their leave to a workplace concern [which] will have repercussions into the future, affecting funding and support from all manner of sources.”” ‘The Board could have stopped to reassess and course-correct at any point but they did not, and they have egregiously refused to acknowledge any damage being done to the Museum by placing the top leadership on such a long, open-ended leave. (Remainder of page is blank; continued on following page) ATTACHMENT 1 Page 7 of 9 IV. CONCLUSION Without intervention from the Attorney General, it is foreseeable such breaches of fiduciary duties and wasting of charitable assets will continue unchecked. Accordingly, Caroline Yacoe and the undersigned members of the community respectfully request the Department of the Atorney General investigate the Board for breaches of fiduciary duties, wasting of charitable assets, and other harm being done to the Museum by the Board. Xs one Caroline Yacoe \ Row Roger Rost) Ph.D " See “Bishop Museum CEO Says She Wants Answers From Board About Why She Was Put On Leave,” News Now July 12, 2022, available at huips:/iwww,hawaiinewsnow com/2022/07/1 smuseums-board-hold- mergeney-mecting-over hip-turmoil-ceo-wams-5-pm-resignation-deadline! 2 Bishop Museum press release dated May 6, 2022 titled, “$17.5 Million in State Funding Directed to Bishop Museum for Operations and Capital Improvement Projects” available at liips:/ww ishopmuseumorg/17=5~ million-in-state-funding-directed-to-bish -for-operations-and-resident-wants-{0-rise-museums-profile-as-a-Leasure-for-hawail/ ATTACHMENT 1 Page 8 of 9 ‘Mark Blackburn, “Noted Collector Calls For Removal of Bishop Museum Board,” Ian Lind, November 29, 2022, al-of-bishy 31 Letter from Melanie Y. Ide to Bishop Museum Board of Directors, July 17, 2022, available at ntps:/avwn s/$85784515/Letter-From: -Ide-19-Bishop-Museum-Board 2 Mark Blackburn, “Noted Collector Calls For Removal of Bishop Museum Board,” lan Lind, November 29, 2022, available at juips:/\vww ilind nev2022/1 1/29/noted-collector-calls-for-removal-of-bishiop-muscut 'S Letter from Melanie Y, Ide to Bishop Museum Board of Directors, July 17, 2022, available at Ips: [Link] 1857845 1 §/Letter-From-Melanie-Ide-1o-Bishop-Museum-Board 4 Ku‘uwehi Hiraishi, “Future Leadership at the Bishop Museum Remains Uncertain,” Hawai'i Public Radio, July 15, 2022, available at hitps://vww hawaiipublicridio, org/local-news/2022-07-15/future-leadership-at-the-bishop- mulseum-remains-uncertain 's Peter Boylan, “Bishop Museum Board Continues Probe of Allegations,” Honolulu Star-Advertiser, August 6, 2022, available at hutps:/hvww. staradvertiser com/2022/08/06/hawaii-news/bishop-muscum-board-conlinues-probe- ‘of-allegations/ ' Mark Blackbur, “Noted Collector Calls For Removal of Bishop Museum Board,” lan Lind, November 29, 2022, available at buips:Jiwwv ilind ne/2022/1 1/29) ector-calls-for-removal-of-bish °° Senate Bill No. 2731 (2022)), available at: butps:/iv \aii,gov/sessions/session2022/bills/SB2731_SD1_HTM 1a, © Ku‘uwehi Hiraishi, quoting a board member in her report, “Future Leadership atthe Bishop Museum Remains Uncertain,” Hawai'i Public Radio, July 15, 2022, available at intps:/svww hawaii g/local-news/2022- (07-1 S/future-leadership-at-the-bishop-museum-remains-t 2 peter Boylan, “Bishop Muscum CEO Melanie Ide Reconsiders Resignation,” Honolulu Star-Advertiser, July 15, 2022, available at hips:/www [Link]/2022/07/1S/havwali-new' 9-museum-ceo-melanie-ide reconsiders-resignation! ® Letter from Melanie Y. Ide to Bishop Muscum Board of Directors, July 17, 2022, available at joard ATTACHMENT 1 Page 9 of 9 ATTACHMENT 2 Individuals Responsible for the Problems Described in the Complaint Against Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum's Board of Directors ‘And Request to Investigate Breaches of Fiduciary Duties And Wasting of Charitable Assets Wayne M. Pitluck, Chairman ‘Aulani Wilhelm, First Vice Chairman Todd Apo, Second Vice Chairman Valerie Shintaku, Secretary Daniel K. Akaka, Jr., Director Manette Benham, Director Ann Botticelli, Director Lauran Bromley, Director Amanda Ellis, Director Elizabeth Rice Grossman, Director Patrick V. Kirch, Director Anton C. Krucky, Director Watters O. Martin, Jr. , Director James Moniz, Director John Morgan, Director Lance Parker, Director illiam (Billy) K, Richards Jr., Director ichael Takayama, Director Vaughn G.A. Vasconcellos, Director Gaylord Wilcox, Director Source: Ka ‘Elele, The Journal of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (Spring 2022), available at hutps://www_bishopm ws ntent/upl 2022/05/20: ring-Ka-Elel if Individuals Who May Have Information Concerning the Complaint Melanie Y. Ide, President / CEO Wesley (Kaiwi) Yoon, Vice President of Operations, Planning, and Program Management Barron Oda, General Counsel ATTACHMENT 2 Page | of 1

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