Entries for 'Natalie Iwasa '

... HART's recovery plan was shipped off to the FTA today with revenue projections that I think are too high ....

...Buried in a proposed amendment to the bill for HART’s capital improvement budget (Bill 22, CD2, FD1) is the statement....

Two inspectors and prior commissioners who recently left the commission are not listed as interviewees....

Some people are recommending “no” votes on all 20 Honolulu charter amendments....

One ballot will contain 20 Honolulu Charter Amendment questions....

Voters should have received the 2016 Charter Amendments booklet this week....

#35 – deletes the requirement that no more than a majority of the reapportionment commission members shall be from the same political party....

...“cannibalized” by rail....

...HART did not address the issue of the error....

... commissioners decided to defer Proposal 17, which would have repealed the Affordable Housing Fund, Clean Water and Natural Lands Fund, and Grants in Aid Fund as well as returned authorization for special fund creation back to the mayor with council approval ....

... more independence with respect to investigation of waste, abuse and fraud? ....

The commission has been meeting since March 2015 and received over 150 proposals for changes to the charter. Fifteen of those proposals have been deferred....

The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday December 17 at 3:30 p.m....

...project expenditures are $1,637M, $1,581M or $1,512M, depending on which report one looks at....

The only way to contain costs is to force HART to live within its current means....

Honolulu City Council District 4 (East Oahu) candidate Natalie Iwasa picked up key endorsements....

...You’ll never see it as a line item in the budget....

At least one organization didn’t even ask to be funded....

...organizations such as labor unions, political action committees, social clubs and credit unions, are eligible for these grants....

The state has received over $7 million in SRTS funding since 2005. Unfortunately, most of this funding has not yet been awarded, and Hawaii remains dead last out of all states in the amount obligated....