Inside Honolulu: March 9
Five City Council members are in Washington, D.C., but there’s still plenty going on at City Hall. The mayor’s new budget is out, and Civil Beat is reporting from the inside.
Rail Groundbreaking Cost $30K as Planned
7:04 a.m.
The city’s rail groundbreaking ceremony cost just about what Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle guessed it would: $29,913.95.
the bulk of the money for the Feb. 22 event was for:
- Tent, furniture rental: $12,252
- 12 驶艒驶艒 sticks for tilling earth: $4,200
- Audio/video equipment: $4,118
- Koa wood souvenirs for attendees: $3,952
- Portable bathrooms: $1,178
- Charter buses providing transportation: $1,708
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Catch Up on This Month’s Inside Honolulu
March 8, 2011: HART seeks $21 million in first budgetl; City IT Director Gordon Bruce works out kinks on new budget website; City gives HPD 9,000 hours in legal defense in two years; City moves forward with compost facility in Waialua; Could Honolulu ask residents to pay-to-play?
March 7, 2011: Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle says he doesn’t want a raise; Salary Commission recommends bump in pay for vacant medical examiner job; Tom Berg‘s chief of staff blasts HECO.
March 4, 2011: Landfill channel not designed to handle rainfall equivalent to storm that caused near-catastrophe; Six City Council members out of town.
March 3, 2011: Line-by-line budget to go online in about a week; Five City Council members are D.C.-bound.
March 2, 2011: Mayor Peter Carlisle raises taxes, fees in first budget; More money for autopsies; Liquor commish nominee Wesley Fong talks commission image issues; TheBus turns 40; Ides of March deadline for City Council’s HART nominees.
March 1, 2011: City Council member Breene Harimoto worries about bandaid approach to homelessness; Planning Committee advances North Shore communities plan; Parks and Rec eyes new dog park; Tom Berg pitches Matson containers as possible living space.
