Inside Honolulu: July 14
There’s always something interesting going on at Honolulu Hale.
Civil Beat is reporting from the inside.
Zoning Board Appointees On Track
1:47 p.m.
The list of city boards and commissions is long, but few need fresh blood as badly as the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Questions about conflicts of interest left the board without enough members to decide on the controversial Kyo-Ya redevelopment in Waikiki. The episode highlighted how small a town Honolulu can be.
Mayor Peter Carlisle‘s two new appointees — Lyle Ishida and Antonio Saguibo — are advancing through the City Council confirmation process. Both were referred to the Zoning and Planning Committee at last week’s meeting. Chair Ikaika Anderson told Inside Honolulu he intends to hear both resolutions at the next committee meeting on Aug. 4. They could be adopted as soon as Aug. 17.
If they’re confirmed, the board could start to look into the Kyo-Ya matter — assuming the new members don’t have a conflict of interest.
Neighborhood Board Battle Brewing
As the saying goes, all politics is local.
There’s probably a similar story at each of the island’s , but tonight there’s bound to be some action at the Diamond Head/Kapahulu/St. Louis Heights board monthly meeting.
Among the items is election of officers for the next year. In an email forwarded to Inside Honolulu, one part-time resident called for the ouster of board Chair Bert Narita on the grounds that he withheld information about — related to parking fees — from the board and from the public.
Palace intrigue, perhaps, but it shows that in the long gaps between Honolulu City Council elections, other local officials can take heat for unpopular city policies.
HPD Not Alone in Lack of Self-Tracking
It turns out that the Honolulu Police Department is one of many departments across the country that doesn’t keep statistics on how many of its officers break the law.
Read the full story elsewhere on Civil Beat this morning.
Where’s Carlisle?
Mayor Peter Carlisle has no public events on his schedule. We’ll poke around to see if he’s busy at Honolulu Hale.
Read Previous Editions of Inside Honolulu
July 13: City’s Staggered Terms Stay Staggered; Pow-Wow Just An Update; Does Military Count: City Edition; Rail Pow-Wow at the Hale; They’re Talking About Us In Dallas; Berg Stands By His Man; Laie Developer Resigns at Gov’s Request; About Those HART Offices…; Rail Opponents Pay for Ink; Where’s Carlisle?; On Tap for Today.
July 12: (Unnamed) City Official Violated Ethics Code; Ethics Questions Up From Last Year; Prosecutor Kaneshiro Target of Ethics Complaint; Elsewhere on Civil Beat; Carlisle Quiet Today.
July 11: Transparency Site Getting Stale; Hoopili Hearing Set for September; Fire Commission Meeting Today; Carlisle’s Early Start.
July 8: Rail Appeals Opened to Public; Carlisle’s Public Sked; Ethics Panel To Decide on Violations Tuesday; Smoke on the (Waste) Water; Three Oahu Projects in Environmental Notice; County Governments Gather in Honolulu; General Plan Process Under Way.
July 7: T-Minus One Hour to General Plan Meeting; Rail Contractor Protest Closed To Public; What to Read This Morning.
July 6: Oh Godbey, New City Lawyer in the House; Derailed: Tom Berg Q&A; Steinberger Slams ‘Anti-Synagro’ Resolution; Ag Land Property Tax Bill Heads Back to Committee; New Chair, New Seats; Council Gathers Early to Fete Honorees; Martin, Anderson Ink Op-Ed.
July 5: New State Law Protects County Firefighters, Lifeguards; Federal Highways Rep: City and State Need to Play Nice; Leeward Politicians Push for Bikeway; State Officials in the Hale for Transportation; Ernie Martin’s First Agenda as Chair; No Crime Stats for HPD.
July 1: City Parade to Cost $20K; Furloughs Are Over, Pay Is Up; No Laie Decision At Next Council Meeting; Housing Office Open For Business; HART Kicks Off New Era for Honolulu Rail; Happy New Year!; Martin Tabs Kobayashi as Budget Chair.
