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Maui Council gives final approval for Wailuku Executive Center purchase

The Maui County Council has given final approval to public acquisition of the four-story Wailuku Executive Center for $10 million to buy and renovate the property as the new headquarters for the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney.

Maui Council gives initial approval to acquire Wailuku Executive Center, OKs funding for Kula Ag Park expansion

The Maui County Council voted unanimously Friday morning to approve bills on first reading to acquire a new building in Wailuku for the Department of Prosecuting Attorney and to re-appropriate funds for phase one expansion of the Kula Agricultural Park. Advancing to second-and-final reading are Bills 103 and 104 and Resolution 25-173. Those measures relate to the county’s proposed $10 million acquisition […]

Maui Council committee advances bills for acquisition of Wailuku Executive Center, expansion of Kula Ag Park

The Maui County Council’s Budget, Finance and Economic Development Committee has recommended full Council approval of bills to acquire a new building for the Department of Prosecuting Attorney and to re-appropriate funds for phase one expansion of the Kula Agricultural Park. On Tuesday, the committee, chaired by Yuki Lei Sugimura, took up Bills 103 and […]

Maui Council advances bills for agricultural tourism and food trucks in ag districts

The Maui County Council moved forward two bills this week aimed at bolstering island agriculture, but one — Bill 75, which seeks to establish agricultural tourism — sparked a debate over safeguarding indigenous Hawaiian cultural practices from commercial exploitation. In a less contentious move, Bill 76 received unanimous final Council approval to allow food trucks […]

First Hawaiian Bank parcels in Lānaʻi City on Maui Council’s July 8 regular meeting agenda

Maui County Council members are set to consider accepting two parcels of land in Lānaʻi City that had been the site of First Hawaiian Bank’s Lānaʻi branch for a century before it closed at the end of June last year. Ready for consideration on the Council’s July 8 agenda, resolution 25-122 would authorize the acceptance […]

Maui Council breezes through remaining agenda items after marathon meeting

After a long “regular” meeting Friday-Saturday, the Maui County Council reconvened Monday morning and made short work of the rest of its agenda items in less than two hours.