CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in The Maui News, January 8, 2017 By MIKE WHITE The 2017-19 term for the Maui County Council officially began on Jan. 2. Welcome to newly elected Council Members Alika Atay, Kelly King and Yuki Lei Sugimura. The council’s inauguration ceremony featured up-and-coming local band Na Wai Eha and keynote speaker […]
Chair’s 3 Minutes Published in The Maui News, January 1, 2017 By MIKE VICTORINO In 10 years as a Maui County Council member, I’ve had the privilege of participating in many spirited deliberations on major environmental, economic and governmental policies. With my tenure coming to an end Monday at noon, because of the charter’s limit […]
For immediate release: Dec. 27, 2016 Press release by: Mike White, Chair Maui County Council Senate President Kouchi to keynote council inauguration Jan. 2 WAILUKU, Hawaii – Senate President Ronald Kouchi will deliver the keynote address at the Maui County Council inauguration on Monday, Jan. 2, 2017 at 10 a.m. in the Council Chamber, Council […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in The Maui News, December 25, 2016 Though many take a break this season, your Maui County Council is still hard at work. Hale Makua, which has served people with disabilities and elderly residents in Maui County for decades, is requesting an extension of its current lease of county property in […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in The Maui News, December 18, 2016 By MIKE WHITE I was at the final harvest of Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. last Monday, a day that marked the end of Maui’s 145-year sugar cane era and the loss of good jobs for hundreds of our friends, neighbors and family members. […]
Chair’s 3 Minutes by Mike White Published in The Maui News, December 11, 2016 The County Council meeting scheduled for 9 a.m. on Friday — the last of the 2015-17 term — features an array of important policy issues. For one example, the agenda includes final passage of Bill 115 (2016) to authorize the council’s […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in December 4, 2016 By MIKE WHITE, for the Maui News Last week, the Maui County Council’s Infrastructure and Environmental Management Committee passed a bill that would prohibit the use of polystyrene food service containers throughout Maui County starting on July 1, 2018, if approved by the full council. Supporters of […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in The Maui News, Nov. 27, 2016 By: MIKE WHITE The new County Council term begins Jan. 2, and the new and returning council members are determined to hit the ground running. That’s why I announced the council’s new leadership shortly after the election, as recently reported (“White, Carroll to lead […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in The Maui News, Nov. 20, 2016 By MIKE WHITE On Nov. 8, voters approved an amendment to the Maui County Charter that will allow the County Council to establish qualifications for, and confirm, mayoral nominations of certain department heads. The new charter provisions take effect with the inauguration of the […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in The Maui News, Nov. 13, 2016 By: MIKE WHITE With less than two months left in its 2015-17 term, the Maui County Council is still working on new legislative proposals. At its Nov. 4 meeting, for example, the council sent Council Member Riki Hokama’s bill that would establish a program […]
