Road construction signs are up. Detours are happening. As fears mount about impacts to businesses, people are wondering: What will the new airport access road in Kahului ultimately look like? Please see the pictures below. My office has been receiving calls about the proposed airport access road, so I would like to share these images […]
Published in The Maui News, June 28, 2015 By MIKE WHITE, for The Maui News The county’s $620.7 million budget for fiscal year 2016 will take effect Wednesday. The council approved the budget with significant public input in more than two dozen public meetings. Nearly 500 residents returned survey forms by mail, with 87 percent […]
Published in The Maui News, June 21, 2015 By MIKE WHITE, for The Maui News This is an important week for Maui County Council members and, more important, our constituents. In a special meeting Monday at 9 a.m., the council will consider overriding the mayor’s line-item veto of portions of the fiscal year 2016 budget. […]
For immediate release: June 19, 2015 Press release by: Councilmember Don Couch Chair, Planning Committee Design and development principles highlighted in Lanai Community Plan WAILUKU, Hawaii – The Planning Committee will meet at the Lanai Community Center on Tuesday, June 23 at 6 p.m. to receive comments about revisions proposed in the Lanai Community Plan, […]
Published in The Maui News, June 14, 2015 By MIKE WHITE, for The Maui News When I became chair on Jan. 2, I pledged to lead the Maui County Council with fiscal responsibility and transparency. I am pleased that the majority of the council embodies these same goals with the passage of the fiscal year […]
For immediate release: June 11, 2015 Press release by: Councilmember Don Couch Chair, Planning Committee Maui County Council Committee continues community plan hearings on Lanai WAILUKU, Hawaii – The Planning Committee will continue its review of the Lanai Community Plan on Tuesday, June 23 at 6:30 p.m. at the Lanai Community Center, Committee Chair Don […]
For immediate release: June 10, 2015 Press release by: Council Vice-Chair Don S. Guzman Maui County Council Council OKs funding to purchase North Shore property for open space WAILUKU, Hawaii – The council’s passage of the 2016 fiscal year budget last week on second and final reading includes a $3 million appropriation for the county’s […]
Published in The Maui News, June 7, 2015 By MIKE WHITE, for The Maui News On May 30, I had the great pleasure of attending a ceremony to bless the county’s Waikamoi flume. In a true feat of engineering, the aging redwood flume has been replaced with a new system of noncorrosive materials like aluminum, […]
For Immediate Release: June 4, 2015 Press Release by: Council Chair Mike White Maui County Council Hawaii county officials, community leaders to talk investment on Maui MAKENA, Hawaii – Councilmembers and other policymakers from throughout the state will gather here to discuss investment success stories – and impediments to investment – at the Hawaii State […]
For immediate release: June 2, 2015 Press release by: Councilmember Don Couch Chair, Planning Committee Revisions to the Lanai Community Plan available online WAILUKU, Hawaii – Proposed revisions to the draft Lanai Community Plan update are now available on the council’s web site, Planning Committee Chair Don Couch announced today. The plan can be accessed […]
