Inside Honolulu: August 26

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There’s always something interesting going on at Honolulu Hale.

Civil Beat is reporting from the inside.

5:24 p.m. Carlisle’s Public Sked

Here’s where Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle can be found over the next seven days:

Saturday, August 27th

  • 11:00 am鈥擬ayor Carlisle presents awards at the Keep the Hawaiian Islands Beautiful 鈥 2011 Laulima Awards. Maui Arts and Cultural Center.

Sunday, August 28th

  • 6:00 pm鈥擬ayor Carlisle delivers remarks at the Lung Doo Benevolent Society 120th Annual Spring Banquet. New Empress Restaurant.

Monday, August 29th

  • No public events.

Tuesday, August 30th

  • 10:00 am鈥擬ayor Carlisle attends the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Ground Breaking Ceremony. Kuntz Avenue, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

Wednesday, August 31st

  • 8:00 am鈥擬ayor Carlisle delivers remarks at the 4th Annual Hawaii Conference on Language Access. Hawaii Imin International Conference Center, East-West Center.
  • 4:45 pm鈥擬ayor Carlisle delivers remarks at the Agriculture in the City open market. Neal Blaisdell Center grounds.

Thursday, September 1st

  • 5:30 pm鈥擬ayor Carlisle delivers remarks at the Aloha Festivals Opening Ceremony. Royal Grove, Royal Hawaiian Center.

Friday, September 2nd

  • 8:00 am鈥擬ayor Carlisle is a guest at a ceremony commemorating the 66th Anniversary of the End of the War in the Pacific. Battleship Missouri Memorial, Pearl Harbor.

3:56 p.m. PBN Now Anti-Rail

Earlier this week, Inside Honolulu highlighted the Honolulu Star-Advertiser op-ed from four major rail critics that looked suspiciously like an editorial from the paper.

Now, Pacific Business News has taken the leap. The weekly publication today made clear that it is no longer in favor of the current transit plans:

PBN has long been in favor of mass transit, and we continue to be. We鈥檙e not saying, 鈥淒on鈥檛 build something.鈥 We鈥檙e saying, 鈥淒on鈥檛 build an elevated rail project, and don鈥檛 build anything as it鈥檚 currently proposed.鈥 This project cannot be fixed, and we are extremely concerned that its enduring legacy 鈥 should construction ever start 鈥 will be as our 鈥渞ail to nowhere鈥 effort.

The piece, which took up a full page in the print edition, goes on to parrot many of the complaints raised by Cliff Slater, Randy Roth, Ben Cayetano and Walter Heen in the Star-Advertiser piece, and says the “influential” foursome has “immense credibility.”

The PBN editorial, combined with the tenor of rail coverage in the Star-Advertiser opinion section, could signal a major shift in the way the public hears about rail. Read the editorial .

11:35 a.m. Code for America Picks Honolulu

Here come the techies.

Honolulu has been selected as a 2012 Code for America city, and will receive a year of assistance from top tech talent to improve the city’s online presence.

Read the full press release .

11:24 a.m. Wednesday Meetings, Too

Here are the two committee meeting agendas for Wednesday, plus the good stuff at each meeting:

9 a.m. 鈥

  • dedicating 35 percent of the City and County of Honolulu fuel tax for a secondary access road to the Waianae coast.
  • Report of the expenditure of federal stimulus monies received.

1 p.m. 鈥

  • Discussion of prioritization and funding of road repairs.

The Zoning and Planning and Transportation Committees will meet Thursday. Their agendas are not yet online.

9:37 a.m. Tuesday Council Committee Agendas Out

Agendas for the three Honolulu City Council committees meeting on Tuesday have been published online. (There will also be meetings on Wednesday and Thursday, but those are not yet available.) Here are links, plus the juiciest items:

9 a.m. 鈥

  • authorizing the use of overt video monitoring in the City and County of Honolulu for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings for the purposes of the general prevention and deterrence of criminal activity and to achieve a legitimate law enforcement objective and a legitimate public purpose.

10:30 a.m. 鈥

  • to prohibit commercial activities at certain City beach parks on Sundays.
  • urging the City Administration to conduct a three-year pilot program allowing commercial activity at certain City parks.

1 p.m. 鈥

  • approving an agreement between ‘Olelo Community Television and the Executive Branch of the City and County of Honolulu and authorizing the execution of said agreement by the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu.

Just In Case

The city is still proceeding with Ansaldo as its selected design-build-operate-maintain rail contractor, but officials are keeping a lifeline handy.

That’s the gist of our main story on Civil Beat this morning. Read it here.

Where’s Carlisle?

At 6 p.m. today, Mayor Peter Carlisle delivers remarks at a Korean Women’s Club singing concert at St. Louis School‘s Mamiya Theatre.

A new public schedule for the next week should be coming later today.

Read Previous Editions of Inside Honolulu

August 25: Senator to HART: ‘We’re Counting On You’; Inouye at HART Today; Mayor Catches Some Waves; Vacation Rental Plan In Limbo; Where’s Carlisle?

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?

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