Behind the Scenes: Hoʻōla Maui Center of Operations

Hoʻōla Maui field crews are supported by a whole team of folks from Hoʻōla Maui member Native Hawaiian Organizations and key project partners that are based at the Center of Operations, located at the Westin Kaʻanapali. They’re not as visible in the field, but they work hard every day behind the scenes to make sure Hoʻōla Maui is working smart, safe, and efficiently to best serve Lahaina. Here are some scenes from a typical day at the Center of Operations.

Although the ops team’s main responsibilities aren’t in the field, they regularly go into the field to optimize processes, address issues, and check in with the field crew and make sure they have what they need. Hoʻōla Maui has a lot of moving parts and the work is happening fast, so everyone - field and ops teams - work together to make it happen.

Every morning, the full team gathers in the ops center at 6:30 a.m. for a morning meeting and safety briefing. In-depth safety and cultural trainings take place every Friday for new team members, so Hoʻōla Maui can operate safely and with respect in the field.

Ops center team members prepare hydration and snack bags for field crew members to take with them each day.

It takes a significant amount of effort and planning to coordinate which zones each filed crew will work in each day.

DebrisTech tracking progress and processing raw data coming in from the field into a format that will be included in the assessment reports for each affected property.

Project management teams keep tabs on updates from the field, tracking progress toward completion of each task.

Daily meetings to coordinate and ensure that all the moving pieces of Hoʻōla Maui are aligned.

Quality control protocols are key to make sure that data collected in the field is complete and accurate.

Paʻakai Communications working on sharing stories and information about Hoʻōla Maui’s activities and progress to share with the community.

Field crews receive PPE each day from the PPE shipping container to stay safe while working in affected areas.

Loaded up and heading out to the field to do their jobs with aloha!