The city Neighborhood Commission Office is hosting an informational session for prospective candidates for the 2017 neighborhood board elections.

There are 437 seats available for 33 boards across Oahu. The deadline to register to be a candidate is Feb. 17.

Neighborhood board members and Neighborhood Commission Office staff will be available to answer questions from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday in Kapolei Hale Conference Rooms A and B.

The election period runs from April 28 to May 19.

Board members, who are volunteers and not paid, serve two-year terms that begin July 1.

For information, call 768-3781 or go to honolulu.gov/nco.

Second hepatitis A shot due for those vaccinated

Hawaii’s Department of Health is reminding people who were vaccinated during last year’s hepatitis A outbreak that it’s time for a second dose.

The department said this week that data show there were about 90,000 hepatitis A vaccines administered in Hawaii between July and November.

In August state health officials identified frozen scallops imported from the Philippines served at a sushi chain as the probable source of the outbreak.

The outbreak sickened hundreds of people.

State Epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Park warns that outbreaks continue to occur worldwide and that a local outbreak could happen again.

She says that while one dose of the vaccine provides good protection, two doses are necessary for lasting immunity.

The second dose must be administered six months after the first one.