For immediate release: Feb. 7, 2017 Press release by: Councilmember Yuki Lei K. Sugimura Maui County Council Sugimura launches Talk Story with Yuki at Upcountry Farmers Market WAILUKU, Hawaii – Councilmember Yuki Lei K. Sugimura today announced the launch of Talk Story with Yuki, a monthly outreach program to engage the community on county issues […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in The Maui News, Feb. 5, 2017 By: BOB CARROLL The Maui County Council’s Land Use Committee will conduct its meeting at the Lanai Senior Center on Friday at 2 p.m. to consider developments on the island requiring change in zoning and conditional permits. On the agenda is the Lanai Avenue Residential […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in The Maui News, Jan. 29, 2017 By YUKI LEI SUGIMURA The County Council’s first committee meeting this term is scheduled Monday at 9 a.m. in the Council Chambers. It is the Policy, Economic Development and Agriculture Committee (PEA), which I chair. This is a nine-member committee, with all my colleagues […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in The Maui News, Jan. 22, 2017 By MIKE WHITE The County Council can anticipate fiscal challenges this year brought by bargaining unit negotiations and the continued cap imposed on the counties’ share of the transient accommodations tax. More than 20 members of the Hawaii State Association of Counties on Tuesday […]
CHAIR’S 3 MINUTES Published in The Maui News, Jan. 15, 2017 By MIKE WHITE At the County Council’s organizational meeting on Jan. 2, three council members, Kelly King, Elle Cochran and Alika Atay, formally requested a public hearing on the council’s committee structure. In an ideal situation, the establishment of committees would have been settled […]
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. […]
