#Charmaine Tavares

This weekend, Mayor Charmaine Tavares opens the pre-season goodwill football game with a coin toss tomorrow night at Na Alii Stadium in Pukalani.  Kickoff is at 7 p.m. between Maui’s Na Alii of King Kekaulike High School and the Fighters of Kwansei Gakuin from Osaka, Japan.  The visiting high school football team has been coming […]

Mayor Charmaine Tavares signed a new bill into law designed to streamline the subdivision process. Tavares says the measure is expected to expedite the return of hundreds in the construction trade back to work. The bill was introduced to the Maui County Council in September 2009 at the request of Tavares. It was designed to […]

Maui’s plastic bag ordinance is the subject of a public hearing today in Wailuku.  Officials from the Department of Environmental Management will discuss proposed administrative rules that outline what types of bags are permissible and guidelines for compliance. Maui’s plastic bag ban is set to go into effect on January 11, 2011, prohibiting businesses from […]

Mayor Charmaine Tavares and Council Member Joe Pontanilla will host a public meeting to gather input and discuss existing laws that affect commercial signs. Particular attention will be paid to regulations that apply to painted promotional signage placed on store windows. Some Maui merchants plan to propose a revision of the county sign code so […]

More than 70 divers and spearfishers from around the state will attempt to capture as many roi (peacock groupers), to’au (blacktail snappers) and ta’ape (blue-line snapper) as they can during the annual Roi Roundup event taking place this Sunday, August 15, 2010.  A single invasive roi can eat up to 146 indigineous reef fish each […]

Maui Mayor Charmaine Tavares will meet with a group of 10 international women leaders over the weekend as part of the East-West Center’s 2010 Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar.  Tavares was invited to speak at the event which includes participation from visiting members traveling from Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the U.S. mainland. The women […]

Qualified first-time homebuyers can get assistance with up to $15,000 for a down payment and/or closing costs through a program that begins September 22, Mayor Charmaine Tavares announced today. “This County program will help middle-income families purchase their first home,” said Mayor Tavares. “Getting a down payment and finding money to pay for closing costs […]

Mayor Charmaine Tavares and the County of Maui Department of Environmental Management were honored by Goodfellow Bros., Inc. last month for its role in an award the company received for its work on the Central Maui Landfill Phase V-A. Goodfellow Bros. received the 2010 Build Hawaii Award of Excellence in the Environmental category from the […]

By Wendy Osher (4:15 p.m. 8/6/10) The Kehalani fire that started just before midnight, remains at 60 acres and no injuries are reported.  There was damage reported to waterlines connected to the ‘Iao Water Treatment Facility, which has been shut down while lines are repaired.  The shutdown does not currently affect water customers in the area. Fire […]

The County of Maui will begin work on a planned Drainage System project in Kaunakakai on Molokai in October. The waterline service includes the proposed Molokai Veterans Caring for Veterans building site and the installation of a replacement waterline. Contractor Goodfellow Brothers, Inc. was awarded the contract for the complete project. “We’re pleased that this […]

On its 20th anniversary celebration, the County of Maui’s PALS program honored Maui Mayor Charmaine Tavares for her role in establishing the program. “Mayor Tavares deserves a lot of credit for not only seeing the need that parents had 20 years ago, but actually creating this program to help parents,” said Karen “Aunty Ti” Deguilmo, […]

Maui Mayor Charmaine Tavares announced $230,750 in county grants awarded to aid key community initiatives.  The largest allocation of $125,000 goes to the University of Hawaii for the Hawaii Business Research Library.  The funds will be used to support the operations of the library and promote a sustainable economic development by contributing to wages, benefits, […]

Maui Mayor Charmaine Tavares received the endorsement of the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers (SHOPO) on Friday, July 23, 2010. SHOPO has 2,800 members statewide with nearly 400 in Maui County. In making the announcement, SHOPO President Tenari Ma’afala called Mayor Tavares’ ability to build positive working relationships as a key to the […]

By Wendy Osher  (Posted: Wednesday, July 21 2010) A political rivalry on Maui is off to a touchy start.  The race for Mayor is officially one candidate shy of a dozen, and eight weeks short of being narrowed to two.  But recent rumblings raised on the campaign trail have cast a shadow of negativity in […]

By Wendy Osher A total of 11 candidates are vying for Maui’s top job.  The field was finalized yesterday with the passing of the filing deadline leaving a long list of candidates in the running for Mayor.   The field grew by four in the past week with Sally Chow Hammond of Molokai and Marc […]

By Wendy Osher The County of Maui reached a settlement with two community groups in a lawsuit over the planned Waiale Water Treatment Plant in Wailuku.  The county agreed to pull its acceptance of the project’s Environmental Impact Statement because water for the facility would come from streams that are under dispute in an ongoing […]

The Maui ballot continues to take shape as the July 20th deadline for candidate filing nears.  As of Tuesday, 14 people had pulled papers for the Mayor’s race and seven had filed, confirming their candidacy—the most recent of which was Maui Mayor Charmaine Tavares who made her run for re-election official on Friday.  In the […]

Today is the county’s first government imposed furlough Friday.  Closed today are all county service centers and satellite offices, payment windows, administrative offices, permitting facilities and senior centers as well as the Maui fire department’s fire prevention bureau and the police department’s records and id section.  Pools are open—following a previously announced one-day per week […]

The County of Maui observes its first government imposed furlough Friday on July 16, 2010.  It is the first of 12 scheduled furlough days in the new fiscal year, which runs from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011. Furloughed employees also includes all managerial staff. One day per month furloughs were proposed by Mayor […]

(Updated 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 12, 2010) The Happy Valley fire that was sparked by fireworks Sunday night is now 60 percent contained. After 22 hours of firefighting efforts focused on the Mokuhau area where the blaze began, officials from the Maui Department of Fire and Public Safety say they were able to reach 60% […]