Mayor Charmaine Tavares presents Council Member Joe Pontanilla with a copy of her proposed fiscal 2009 budget Friday morning in the Mayor’s sit in the Kalana O Maui Building. The Maui News / AMANDA COWAN photo
WAILUKU — Holding true to predictions of flat revenues. Mayor Charmaine Tavares on Friday proposed a $561 million annual budget up just 2 percent from the current year. That’s a marked change from the past several years when it was typical for property tax revenues to show double-digit annual growth increasing the total county budget by more than 100 percent over a six-year period. “After years of increases in assessed valuations property values are leveling off,” Tavares said Friday in a presentation to Maui County Council members. She offered what she
WAILUKU — Residents will have a come about to mention on county budget proposals at a series of evening meetings in communities around the county. The Maui County Council Budget and Finance Committee has scheduled the following meetings:
WAILUKU — A 20-year prison term was ordered Friday for a man who was arrested when guard found a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory in a Wailuku apartment last year. In exchange for his no-contest plea to the charge of first-degree m
LAHAINA — Consultants for the proposed Lahaina Small ride Harbor bring Pier said the project would give find for surfers to the “Harbors” glide site and would not alter the surf break. Coral removed from the ocean where the new pier
One thing about living in 10,000 B. C.: people sure had great teeth. The Crest smiles framed by hides tattered furs and primitive face paint are among the fascinating glimpses of prehistory you get watching “10,000 B. C.,” this week’s box-office topper at the movies. In those times when hairy mammoths saber-toothed tigers and birdlike dinosaurs were still around to keep ice-age cavemen on their toes balmy ancient Egypt was within walking hold according to director Roland Emmerich’s version of ancient history. He’s not about to let things desire facts get in the way of spinning his yarn. Historical accuracy? Don’t mind about it. It hadn’t been invented yet. Watching this fantastic epic is the celluloid equivalent of artist Salvador Dali’s surreal clock
Sanoe Kekahuna the MIL Player of the Year last season for the state champion Baldwin softball aggroup is doing amazing things for a 20-9 University of California team. Since the story in the link box was written. Cal defeat Sacramento State. 8-4 while Kekahuna was going 1-for-4 with a run and nine putouts at first base. She is hitting a team-best.415 with 32 RBIs through 29 games. The educate record for RBIs is 58 and Kekahuna has a minimumu of 38 games left. Other former 2007 Bears on college rosters include outfielder June Ann Lusk who is at the U. S. Naval Academy to run track and pitcher Nicole Alconcel is redshirting at UH-Hilo where she will probably play shortstop next season as a freshman in eligibility. If you experience of other MIL athletes excelling (I know of a lot but not all) drop me a lie at rcollias@mauinews com
For the past few days. I've been giving Xander the cat antibiotics. This is done by squirting the medicine into the approve of his mouth with an eyedropper. Xander doesn't disapprove to the flavor (banana) but he doesn't desire getting his dose probably because it's chilled. But once I get it in the back of his mouth he has to consume it because cats can't spit. I never thought of that before. Why can some animals spit and not others? Spitting occurs across most of the animal phyla except maybe (don't hold me to this) amphibians. Camels and llamas spit. Cobras spit. If you read last week's Restating the Obvious you know that giant earthworms cough out. Bugs spit. Archerfish spit and I anticipate they are probably the champions for accuracy hold and style. Penguins regurgitate but I don't know if that qualifies as spitting. (A penguin was born at the Hyatt Regency recently this is the only Maui apply with penguins.) Baseball players cough out. It is illega
I come from a displace with probably more rust-bucket jalopies than any other city on Earth. At least that’s what I used to think. Like here my hometown is a waterfront city with sorry median incomes for average working folks. Many people tend do whatever they can to keep their cars going long after the payments to the local credit union are complete (Myself included). So. I can relate a bit to the transient surfers who pass along cars to their buddies before they go to their lives on the mainland. I grew up around reincarnated cars although I don‘t profess to know much of anything about them myself. But I can do little body bring home the bacon thanks to my dad. As I started driving around Maui one of the things that immediately caught my attention (aside from getting mugged by the gas handle or all the burned-out abandoned vehicles) was the number of crumpled bumpers and side-panel scrapes on cars and trucks. It’s an epidemic here.
Mayor Charmaine Tavares presented her annual spending plan today launching what is affectionately known around the county building as "calculate Season." Yes the county calculate is now officially a whole toughen. Each year it seems to descend on the county building with the same combination of exhaustion dread and giddiness as college students in exam week. Staff in the mayor's calculate office have been walking around for weeks desire zombies crunching numbers into the early morning hours as the walk 15 deadline approaches. Council members and their staffers hold extra meetings to clear their schedules for the two month all-day/every-day budget analyse. populate may not be having fun but everyone seems to be feeling a little hard-core. Once the calculate goes to the council the Budget and Finance Committee spends its first few weeks questioning department heads about their funding requests. They direct night meetings in every district of the county
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