Inside Honolulu: August 25
There’s always something interesting going on at Honolulu Hale.
Civil Beat is reporting from the inside.
11:29 a.m. Senator to HART: ‘We’re Counting On You’
Sen. Daniel Inouye just wrapped up his remarks to the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, and stressed his appreciation for members’ important contributions to the project.
“You are the stewards. We’re counting on you,” he told them.
Inouye has been championing rail for decades, and said “one of the saddest days of my political life” was when an earlier incarnation failed at the Honolulu City Council by one vote.
“This time we’re going to go to the finish,” he said.
He acknowledged that times are tough in Washington right now, and said there are no guarantees even though he considers Federal Transit Administration chief Peter Rogoff a friend of the project. But Inouye said that as chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, he’s got some tricks up his sleeve.
“Even in these difficult times, if I can’t deliver, then I should be cursed,” he said.
The board had stood at attention when he entered, thanked him profusely for his support, and then embraced him as he left. Effectively all of the assembled media left with him.
8:43 a.m. Inouye at HART Today
The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation is taking its show on the road this morning, heading to Kapolei for a 10 a.m. meeting.
is pretty dry, but does include one interesting item: a message from Sen. Daniel Inouye. HART confirmed last night that Inouye would be there in person.
More coming soon.
Mayor Catches Some Waves
Civil Beat caught up with Mayor Peter Carlisle yesterday after his meeting with HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, and the mayor was in his usual chipper mood. That interview is part of our story this morning:
Mayor to HUD: Tell Us What To Do And We’ll Do It
We should have made a point of hanging out with him later, when he went surfing as part of the Duke’s OceanFest.
KHON has the video of Carlisle in his yellow rashguard, catching waves and even wiping out:
Vacation Rental Plan In Limbo
Even after two public hearings, the Honolulu Planning Commission is still unable to reach a final consensus on whether to step up enforcement on illegal vacation rentals by scouring online ads to see if each available rental has a permit.
The Commission voted 4-3 in favor of the plan yesterday, but needs five votes to officially put its stamp of approval on the matter before it heads to the Honolulu City Council. Read Nanea Kalani‘s coverage here:
Planning Panel Split Over Honolulu Vacation Rentals
Where’s Carlisle?
At 6 p.m., Mayor Peter Carlisle attends the Aloha Council Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Citizen Dinner at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel**.
Read Previous Editions of Inside Honolulu
August 24: Rail Opponents Ask For Investigation; Gun Rights Group Sues HPD; Council Redistricting Today; Tales From Japan; Transient Accommodations Fight Continues; Where’s Carlisle?
August 23: Sumitomo Won’t Appeal; Honolulu’s Newest Apps; Three Added to Cabinet; Next Enterprise Services Director: Keoki Miyamoto; Search and Rescue; Queen of Waikiki Turns 110; Where’s Carlisle?
August 22: Anti-Rail Op-Ed, or Editorial?; Water Board Public Hearing Today; HUD Secretary Hawaii-Bound; Where’s Carlisle?
August 18: Carlisle’s Public Sked; Statehood Day; No Car, No Problem; HART ‘Comforted’ By Sumitomo Ruling; HART Meets Today; Pay Your Taxes; Where’s Carlisle?
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?
