Kierkiewicz a board member for company receiving CARES funds
Puna Councilwoman Ashley Kierkiewicz steered taxpayer money to a not-yet nonprofit corporation on whose board she sits, records show.
Kierkiewicz gave $63,000 to the nonprofit Hawaii Rise Foundation, earmarked for Vibrant Hawaii, a corporation Kierkiewicz helped form and where she currently serves as an unpaid director.
The money was part of $100,000 each council member was allocated from the county’s $80 million share of federal coronavirus relief funds. In all, Vibrant Hawaii received about $2 million as a subcontractor for Hawaii Rise.
Kierkiewicz a board member for company receiving CARES funds
