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4:42 p.m. Carlisle’s Public Sked

If you’d like to catch up with Mayor Peter Carlisle next week, here are your chances:

Saturday, August 20th

• 5:00 pm—Mayor Carlisle delivers remarks at the United Visayan Community of Hawaii 63rd Anniversary Celebration. United Visayan Hall.

Sunday, August 21st

• No public events.

Monday, August 22nd

• No public events.

Tuesday, August 23rd

• No public events.

Wednesday, August 24th

• 9:00 am—Mayor Carlisle delivers remarks at a Honolulu Fire Department Promotion Ceremony. Hale Kinai Ahi.
• 5:00 pm—Mayor Carlisle delivers remarks at a Duke Kahanamoku Statue Lei Draping Ceremony. Kuhio Beach.

Thursday, August 25th

• 6:00 pm—Mayor Carlisle attends the Aloha Council Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Citizen Dinner. Sheraton Waikiki Hotel.

Friday, August 26th

• 6:00 pm—Mayor Carlisle delivers remarks at a Korean Women’s Club singing concert. St. Louis School, Mamiya Theatre.

4:38 p.m. Statehood Day

Tomorrow is Statehood Day, a state holiday, and most of the city will be closed.

According to a city announcement:

• Emergency ambulance, fire, lifeguard and police services will be available.
• The People’s Open Markets will not be held. Parks and Recreation centers, municipal golf courses, botanical gardens and the Honolulu Zoo will be open.
• Regular Friday refuse collections will be made and refuse convenience centers will be open.
• City buses will operate on a state holiday schedule. (For more information, go to TheBus website.)
• Handi-Vans will operate as usual.
• On-street parking will be free, except for the meters on Kalakaua Avenue along Kapiolani Park.
• Parking will be permitted in tow away zones as allowed on holidays.
• Traffic lanes will not be coned for contra flow.
• Traffic signals at Kalakaua Avenue and Kapiolani Boulevard will be three-phase to permit mauka traffic to turn left onto Kapiolani Boulevard.

Not everyone is off tomorrow. At 8 a.m., Mayor Peter Carlisle is set to deliver remarks at the 2011 Made in Hawaii Festival opening ceremony at the Neal Blaisdell Center.

In observance of the holiday, there will be no Inside Honolulu tomorrow, though Civil Beat will certainly be open for business.

4:29 p.m. No Car, No Problem

A new study finds that Honolulu residents who don’t have cars are well-covered by public transportation.

Read more over at .

10:13 a.m. HART ‘Comforted’ By Sumitomo Ruling

The state hearings officer’s ruling against would-be rail contractor Sumitomo over the weekend was only lukewarm in its endorsement of the city’s procurement process.

But that’s good enough for the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation.

The HART Board’s Audit/Legal Affairs Committee held a discussion on the core systems contract this morning, and committee Chair Ivan Lui-Kwan said he was “comforted” by the ruling’s thoroughness.

Sumitomo Vice President Gino Antoniello testified before the committee and spoke to Inside Honolulu afterwards.

Full story coming soon.

HART Meets Today

The Audit/Legal Matters and Project Oversight Committees of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation are scheduled to meet this morning at 9 a.m.

The juiciest item on , without a doubt, is what’s described as “Briefing and Discussion on Core Systems Procurement.” That’ll be HART’s first chance to talk about the $1.4-billion design-build-operate-maintain contract awarded to Ansaldo, now that administrative appeals brought by Sumitomo and Bombardier have been dismissed.

Bombardier has already appealed its case to both Circuit Court and the Federal Transit Administration, but that hasn’t slowed progress. HART this week told Ansaldo to provide some additional information about its finances as one of the final steps before the contract can be executed.

A for just the Project Oversight Committee is set to get started at 10 a.m.

Pay Your Taxes

Payments for the first installment of real property taxes for the 2011-2012 tax year are due by Monday, the Department of Budget and Fiscal Services announced yesterday.

You can pay by mail, in person, in a curbside drop box or electronically.

Where’s Carlisle?

Mayor Peter Carlisle has no public events on his schedule for today.

Read Previous Editions of Inside Honolulu

August 17: Council Advances Campaign Sign Rules; $1 Million Settlement Approved; Mililani Senior Development Gets OK; Laie Hotel Deferred One Month; ‘You Got Shafted, I Got Shafted’; Council To Defer Laie Hotel Vote; HART to Ansaldo: Prove You Can Handle It; Council Sends Ag Property Tax Bill To Mayor; Godbey Confirmed As Corp Counsel; The ‘Million-Dollar Baby Toe’; Police Commission Agenda; HUD Not Happy With City’s ORI Report; Council Meeting Today; Sewage Trucking Begins; Where’s Carlisle?

August 16: Corp Counsel on Bombardier Suit; Bombardier’s Lawsuit; Tam Sentencing Delayed Again; Feds To Pay For Kolekole Pass Repair; Ethics Panel Waits on Travel Gift Policy; Rod Tam Sentencing; Newsmaker Interview Today; Where’s Carlisle?

August 15: Missouri Company Gets Sewer Contracts; Landfill Selection Meetings Postponed; Bombardier Appeals to FTA, Court; Busy Weekend for Rail; Questions for Yoshioka; Ethics Commission Today; Where’s Carlisle?

August 12: Feds’ Rail Lawsuit Response; Carlisle’s Public Sked; Council Agenda Published; Cabinet Gathers; Moku on HUD Meeting; Transportation Newsmaker; Where’s Carlisle?

August 11: Horner Lays It Down; Mayor’s Math Problem; Capitol Moat Sewage; Council Chair on Commissioner’s Ethics Violation; HART Finance Committee to Meet; Where’s Carlisle?

August 10: Vacation Rentals Argument Not Over Yet; Quintal Retires, Quietly; Packed Auditorium; Beat the School Jam; Vacation Rentals on Planning Commission Agenda; Morning Reading; Where’s Carlisle?

August 9: Ethics Agenda Out; EPA Fines Pest Control Co.; Regulating B&Bs Not So Easy; Where’s Carlisle?

August 8: Bombardier on Appeal; Carlisle In Da Hale; Where’s City Oversight?; Police Department Names Names; Carlisle on Japan, in Video; Where’s Carlisle?

August 5: 6:51 p.m. Carlisle in Japan, in Photos; Bombardier Officially Rejected; Ansaldo Enlisted to Fix San Fran’s Light Rail Cars; Traffic Ticket Quota; Carlisle’s Public Sked; Ansaldo Honolulu “Pleased” With Finmeccanica Restructuring; Waianae’s Clean Water Award; Chair Garcia’s Checklist; Where’s Carlisle?

August 4: Congestion Tolls in Honolulu … Someday; HART Here, HART There; Zoning Appeals Board Appointments Advance; Committee Moves Sign Bill Forward; Moratorium Lifted on New Sewer Connections in Waimanalo; Free Speech vs. Open Space; Today’s Committees; Where’s Carlisle?

August 3: Board Defends Rate Hike; Appointee Asked About Water Rates; Tow Trucking Debated; Seniors, Disabled Ask for Help; ORI Discussion Coming Soon; Today’s Committees; Fewer Golfers, More Money; Chang’s Public Service; Where’s Carlisle?

August 2: Case Closed, Not Decided; City Rests, Ansaldo Satisfied; City Witness Rebuts Sumitomo; Ireland, Silva Like Merger; Talking Merger; No Competition for Carlisle; Berg: GOP “Party of the Skin Heads”; Today’s Committees; Want Train? Get Brains; Where’s Carlisle?

August 1: Across the Street?; Waipahu Board Backs Hoopili; Executive Session?; Ansaldo Responds; Rail Appeal Continues, With Questions Churning About Ansaldo; Sewage Spill in Kailua; Where’s Carlisle?