And now, on to new business.

With last week’s appointments of Gerard “Jerry” Gibson and Karen Chang, the Honolulu Police Commission is back to full strength, with seven members and a mission to give the Honolulu Police Department a fresh start.

HPD has a new police chief, Susan Ballard, who takes over after months of turmoil surrounding the legal troubles of former chief Louis Kealoha, now facing a federal indictment on corruption charges.

The once-passive commission will need to demonstrate its independence, holding HPD to the highest standards of transparency, ethics and conscientious policing.

A new leader for struggling Bishop Museum

With nearly 30 years of experience in museum planning, design and program development with a consulting firm based in New York City, incoming Bishop Museum president and CEO Melanie Y. Ide has the sort of portfolio that could surely improve the Hawaii institution’s visibility on the world’s museum map.

In recent years Bishop Museum — home to the world’s largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural-history specimens — has struggled with financial setbacks and other problems. Here’s hoping that Ide’s vision will deliver a bright future for the site founded in 1889 in honor of the last descendant of the royal Kamehameha family.