For Immediate Release: July 8, 2022 Press Release by: Alice L. Lee, Council Chair media@mauicounty.us Council offers its condolences on the tragic assassination of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe WAILUKU, Hawaii—On behalf of the Maui County Council, Council Chair Alice L. Lee today offered her condolences to the family of Japan’s […]
WAILUKU, Hawaii – A delegation of 24 elected officials from Quezon City Council, Philippines, led by Vice Mayor Josefina Belmonte, visited the Maui County Council on Monday to commemorate the 45th anniversary of a sister-city relationship with the county. Maui County Council Chair Mike White presented Vice Mayor Belmonte with a framed certificate. Maui County […]
Published in The Maui News June 16, 2013 By DON GUZMAN , for The Maui News With its four areas of policy oversight, the Maui County Council’s Economic Development, Energy, Agriculture, and Recreation Committee, known as the EAR Committee, is an adroit body — addressing opportunities and obstacles to improving Maui County’s economy, alternative energy […]
WAILUKU, MAUI, HAWAII – Exchange students from Miyakojima City, Japan visited the Maui County Council Chamber today for a crash course on policy-making and poi pounding. The Maui County Council’s presiding officer uses a pohaku ku’i, or “poi pounder,” in place of the traditional gavel. Council Vice-Chair Robert Carroll welcomed the group and entertained several […]
WAILUKU, MAUI, HAWAII – Twenty five students from the 2013 Goyang Global Youth Leadership Program on Maui visited the Council Chamber today. Resolution 12-16 (2012) established Goyang City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea as a Sister City of Maui County. A ceremonial MOU signing was held in the Council Chamber last February, 2012. “This is what […]
