CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in The Maui News, March 26, 2017 By STACY CRIVELLO The county Department of Transportation presented the Maui Short Range Transit Plan to the County Council’s Housing, Human Services and Transportation Committee, which I chair, to provide an overview of its operations and services. A copy of the plan is available […]
Published in The Maui News, August 21, 2016 By MIKE VICTORINO, for The Maui News The counties will continue to work with the state Legislature for a more equitable share of transient accommodations tax revenue. At the July meeting of the Hawaii State Association of Counties’ executive committee, council members from Maui, Kauai and Hawaii […]
Published in The Maui News, June 19, 2016 By MIKE WHITE, for The Maui News Monday at 9 a.m., the policy board of the recently created Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization will continue its efforts to hire the MPO’s first executive director. The Maui MPO is an independent entity that will facilitate joint state and county […]
Published in The Maui News, May 1, 2016 By MIKE VICTORINO , The Maui News I’ve had the privilege of representing county governments during the 2016 state legislative session, which ends Thursday. As president of the Hawaii State Association of Counties and chair of the Maui County Council’s Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, I’ve worked […]
Published in The Maui News, Oct. 26, 2014 By GLADYS C. BAISA , For The Maui News If you’ve recently visited the Council Chambers on the eighth floor of the county building or watched a meeting on Akaku, you may have noticed a new big-screen TV monitor mounted on the left wall of the chamber. […]
Published in The Maui News on October 19, 2014 By GLADYS C. BAISA, for The Maui News I received an email from a good friend saying I’d won a large amount of money in a sweepstakes. The email asked for personal and bank information in order to wire the money to my account. Before I […]