For Immediate Release: August 20, 2020 Press Release by: Councilmember Michael J. Molina Chair Governance, Ethics and Transparency Committee County Council committee to consider proposals for improvements to Sunshine Law, other state statutes WAILUKU, Hawaii—The Governance, Ethics and Transparency Committee on Tuesday at 9 a.m. will consider whether to ask the state Legislature to […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in the Maui News October 7, 2018 By: Councilmember Riki Hokama On this year’s general election ballot, the following question will be posed to voters: “Shall the legislature be authorized to establish, as provided by law, a surcharge on investment real property to be used to support public education?” Residents have […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in the Maui News, August 5, 2018 By: Councilmember Riki Hokama On the general election ballot in November, the following question will be posed to voters: “Shall the legislature be authorized to establish, as provided by law, a surcharge on investment real property to be used to support public education?” The […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in the Maui News May 27, 2018 By: Mike White For many years, travel companies marketing Hawaii on behalf of hotels and other accommodations charged our visitors the state’s general excise tax and transient accommodations tax on their share of the sales price of a unit. The companies then pocketed the […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in the Maui News May 13, 2018 By: Mike White Earlier this month, the 2018 state legislative session came to an end. Throughout the session, I closely monitored measures that could potentially impact Maui County. This week’s column serves as an update on the critical measures that have either been deferred […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in the Maui News, April 15, 2018 By: Mike White Last week, the state House of Representatives passed Senate bill 2922, which seeks to amend the state constitution to allow the Legislature to add a surcharge on investment real property to support public education. The bill will likely head to conference […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in the Maui News, March 18, 2018 By: Mike White Last week, Senate Bill 648, Senate Draft 1, House Draft 1 was released by the state House Committee on Finance. The bill proposes to increase the Neighbor Island counties’ share of the transient accommodations tax, also known as the hotel tax […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in the Maui News, March 4, 2018 By: Mike White Important measures pending at the state Legislature have the potential to adversely impact the operations of counties. Earlier this week, the Senate Committee on Judiciary passed Senate Bill 2922, which proposes a constitutional amendment to establish a surcharge on residential investment […]
For immediate release: November 30, 2017 Press release by: Councilmember Yuki Lei K. Sugimura WAILUKU, Hawaii – A resolution will be introduced at the Maui County Council’s Dec. 1 meeting urging the Governor and the State Legislature to mandate the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement, to proactively administer […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in the Maui News, November 19, 2017 By: Mike White Details of an agreement that Gov. David Ige’s administration negotiated with Airbnb, an online short-term rental site, were released to the public last week. The news media first reported a deal weeks ago, but the details were slow to be shared. […]
