HART employees voice support for CEO Lori Kahikina
The support comes as Kahikina, whose $275,000 executive contract with HART expires Dec. 31, recently received a critical performance evaluation. Read more
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Honolulu Council eyes $27M for city worker hazard pay
The Honolulu City Council plans to earmark $27 million in federal funds to repay eligible, unionized city workers employed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
Honolulu City Council hears lifeguards’ views on Ocean Safety department
City Managing Director Mike Formby said the city’s need for a new Ocean Safety department is not in question. Read more
Lifeguards want new department with oversight, HGEA poll finds
Chief John Titchen — a critic of the mayor’s plan to create a stand-alone Ocean Safety Department without an oversight panel — was first placed on unpaid administrative leave but is now on paid leave. Read more
Ocean Safety Task Force members critical of process
Some who served on Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s Ocean Safety Task Force to help form the new public safety department say they were fed up with the outcome. Read more
HART receives $125M in federal funding
The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation on Thursday announced $125 million in long-awaited federal funding to aid in the ongoing construction of the nearly $10 billion Skyline project. Read more
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Ocean Safety chief placed on administrative leave, city says
John Titchen, Honolulu’s Ocean Safety and Lifeguard Services Division chief since 2018, has been placed on administrative leave effective Tuesday, the city confirmed. Read more
Nearly 3.6% pay hike adopted for Honolulu mayor, City Council
The Honolulu Salary Commission Tuesday adopted a nearly 3.6% pay boost for the mayor, managing director, the nine-member City Council and other appointed, high-level city officials for the city’s fiscal year 2025 salary schedule, which begins July 1. Read more
City touts ‘sustainable’ projects near Skyline
On Earth Day, Honolulu officials rode the city’s driverless, all-electric Skyline trains to not only tout the benefits of mass transit but laud current and future sustainable projects along the West Oahu line. Read more
Head of HART under fire after top executive resigns
The executive management team of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation has faced challenges this month. Read more
Honolulu City Council considers salary charter amendments
Seven resolutions that urge voter-approved charter amendments to overhaul how Honolulu pays its employees were under City Council review this week. Read more
Ocean Safety sector draws support, criticism
Those for and against contending city resolutions to transform Honolulu’s 277-member Ocean Safety Division into a full-fledged city department voiced their concerns during the City Council’s meeting Wednesday. Read more
Navy nixes possible city landfill site
The Navy will not allow the City and County of Honolulu to locate a new landfill on Waipio Peninsula near Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, the city announced Tuesday. Read more
Chief lifeguard ‘stoked’ over potential new department
As chief of Honolulu’s 277-member Ocean Safety Division, John Titchen says his agency’s possible transformation into a full-fledged city department is a long time coming. Read more
More Ocean Safety sector resolutions introduced
Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s previously stated plan to create a new and independent city Department of Ocean Safety through executive action is taking shape. Read more
Haiku Stairs’ demolition to begin late April, city says
The city says demolition of the more than 3,900 steps leading to the top of the Koolau Range, above Haiku Valley and the H-3 freeway, will begin at the end of April. Read more
Honolulu City Council requested to condemn properties for rail
The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation would like to acquire by eminent domain five private properties along the rail corridor as construction of the nearly $10-billion Skyline proceeds toward Kakaako. Read more
Honolulu City Council members say they‘ll reject 3% pay hike
The proposed pay hikes come less than a year after the CIty Council received a controversial 64% salary increase and the Honolulu mayor’s pay jumped nearly 12.6%. Read more
Honolulu Ocean Safety Task Force should be its own department, members say
After sifting through that data, the task force emerged with its final recommendation. Read more
Honolulu permitting department touts new tech in backlog fight
The Department of Planning’ and Permitting’s new high-tech plan to track, in real time, the status and whereabouts of someone’s building permit application. Read more
City still seeks more time to find Oahu landfill alternative
Waimanalo Gulch Landfill, which opened in 1989, was originally slated to close eight years later, by 1997. The city now says the 200-acre dump is scheduled to close by 2028. Read more
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