#Budget Testimony
Johnson on Budget: “You can’t get blood out of a turnip… this is a pretty big vegetable we’re looking at”
“Nothing is easy and I can empathize with many of the decisions that we have to face. But I do appreciate what the administration is going through, but I also appreciate that you’re (Council Chair Joe Pontanilla) trying to look at the concerns of the general public, interpret that as well as what all nine […]
Victorino on Budget: The new norm is to do it with what you have, not with the futuristic borrowing and selling your soul for the future”
“I heard today a number of the departments defending their turf, and that’s fine, I understand. I’ve been through those kinds of exercises when I was in the business world—you come in and you justify your expenses, positions, expansions and deletions. They did a good job and I respect that. It’s our responsibility now to […]
Mateo on Budget: “We’re cutting deep with core services”
“I think this morning was quite difficult for me to just listen to some of the testimony, especially when the bulk of the testimony came from a good number of our own departments,” said Molokai council member Danny Mateo. “It bothered me to hear some divisions talk about: ‘if the proposals says as it is, […]
Nishiki on Budget: “I think that no one will die from these severe cuts”
“When I listened today to the different departments and their reasons for restoring funding, their reasons make sense; however in this time of three years of constant cuts, still we see from property taxes and the general fund that it is diminishing,” said councilmember Wayne Nishiki. “We in Maui County have not laid off one […]
