Strides toward affordable housing for local residents By Gabe Johnson As a former member of the working poor who’s lived on Lānaʻi in low-income housing as a single father, I know the struggle of trying to make ends meet in a housing crisis. That is why I have made it my mission during my first […]
For Immediate Release: October 14, 2022 Press Release by: Yuki Lei Sugimura, Chair Infrastructure and Transportation Committee Dockless vehicles and parking ambassador program set for discussion in council committee Monday WAILUKU, Hawaiʻi—The Infrastructure and Transportation Committee will meet Monday at 9 a.m. on Bill 133, prohibiting a commercial system of short-term rentals of dockless vehicles, […]
Coastal erosion, large-wave impacts and sea-level rise are distinct and serious issues for our shorelines. In Kahana, nine condominium complexes are imminently threatened, and another building was deemed uninhabitable because of increasing coastal erosion cracking the foundation. Lower Honoapiʻilani Road, fronting Kaʻōpala Bay, is facing a similar threat. The road covers a charged waterline located […]
For Immediate Release: September 28, 2022 Press Release by: Kelly Takaya King, Former Councilmember Maui County Council media@mauicounty.us Council passes bill to establish a policy to protect and restore wetlands KĪHEI, Hawaiʻi—Councilmember Kelly Takaya King announced Wednesday the council yesterday passed Bill 91, CD1 (2022) on second and final reading which will restore and protect […]
For Immediate Release: September 27, 2022 Press Release by: Gabe Johnson, Councilmember Maui County Council media@mauicounty.us Council passes Bill 107 on sales price guidelines for county-subsidized housing LĀNAʻI CITY, Hawaiʻi—Councilmember Gabe Johnson announced Tuesday that the council passed on second and final reading of Bill 107 (2022) to create new guidelines for the sales price […]
“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves, and the only way they could do this is by not voting.”—President Franklin D. Roosevelt The right to vote has thankfully become deeply ingrained in our American psyche as an assumed right, one that is owed to us […]
For Immediate Release: September 23, 2022 Press Release by: Keani N.W. Rawlins-Fernandez, Council Vice-Chair Maui County Council media@mauicounty.us Council establishes Hawaiian Language Communications Specialist position KAUNAKAKAI, Hawaiʻi—Bringing to fruition an initiative from this spring’s annual budget session, the Maui County Council approved the appointment of a Hawaiian Language Communications Specialist on Aug. 5, providing ‘ōlelo […]
For Immediate Release: September 20, 2022 Press Release by: Gabe Johnson, Councilmember Maui County Council media@mauicounty.us Council endorses Johnson’s proposal for state legislation to allow counties to set own minimum wage LĀNAʻI CITY, Hawai‘i—Councilmember Gabe Johnson announced Tuesday that the council endorsed his proposal for state legislation to empower counties in Hawaiʻi to set minimum […]
For Immediate Release: September 20, 2022 Press Release by: Kelly Takaya King, Former Councilmember Maui County Council media@mauicounty.us Maui County’s sunscreen ordinance takes effect next month KĪHEI, Hawaiʻi—Councilmember Kelly Takaya King announced that Ordinance 5306 will go into effect Oct. 1 to prohibit the sale, use or distribution of nonmineral sunscreens without a prescription issued […]
For Immediate Release: September 6, 2022 Press Release by: Kelly Takaya King, Former Councilmember Maui County Council media@mauicounty.us Climate, Action, Resilience and Environment Committee to consider Energy Conservation Code amendments KĪHEI, Hawaiʻi—Councilmember Kelly Takaya King announced Tuesday that the Climate, Action, Resilience and Environment (CARE) Committee on Sept. 14 will consider a county-specific version of […]
