HHSAA will pay for damaged stadium seats
Advertiser Staff
The Hawai'i High School Athletic Association has agreed to pay $1,200 to Aloha Stadium to repair 17 seats damaged during the First Hawaiian Bank Division I state football championship on Dec. 3, according to Aloha Stadium Authority chairman Kevin Chong Kee.
Nine seats were damaged on the Punahou side of the field, and eight seats were damaged on the Kahuku side of the field, according to Stadium Authority member Howard Ikeda.
Chong Kee said Kahuku's locker room was left in disarray, and custodians were forced to clean human excrement from the walls, Chong Kee said. The Punahou locker room was OK, Chong Kee said.
"To me it's a shame, especially if supervisors and coaches were present," Chong Kee said of the locker room mess.
Chong Kee said a letter was sent earlier to HHSAA to ban Kahuku from the use of stadium locker rooms in the future, but stadium officials later decided against the ban after the parties apologized.
Kahuku administrators and HHSAA executive director Keith Amemiya apologized for the misbehavior in a meeting with Aloha Stadium interim manager Kenny Lum on Thursday, Chong Kee said.
Kahuku defeated Punahou, 28-21, to win the state championship.
Two seasons ago, there were "about 40 (damaged) seats" in the Kahuku section at the state football championships, according stadium Patrick Leonard. The stadium was not reimbursed for those damages, Leonard said.