Honolulu Mayor-Elect Blangiardi Announces Key Appointments - Honolulu Civil Beat
They include Laura Thielen for Parks and Recreation and Dean Uchida for Planning and Permitting. Reading time: 4 minutes.
Rick Blangiardi, who will be sworn in as the next mayor of the City and County of Honolulu Saturday, announced top leadership and Cabinet positions on Tuesday.
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Michael Formby will serve as managing director (as was previously announced), Danette Maruyama will be deputy managing director and Andrew Kawano will be the director of Budget and Fiscal Services.
Formby previously worked as an acting state transportation director, Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s city transportation director, chief of staff to former Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa, an interim director and member of the board of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation and an interim city councilman.
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It s official: any furloughs of state workers will not begin until July 1 at the earliest. Governor David Ige says that s because of the latest federal COVID-19 relief measure just signed by President Donald Trump.
Earlier this month, Ige said he expected to start twice a month furlough days in January.
While the latest federal relief package does not contain direct aid to the state, there will be funding for testing and contact tracing. That should help free up other state funding to delay the furloughs, which would have amounted to a pay cut of about 9%.
Caldwell leaves Mayor-elect Blangiardi budget proposal
Struggling families still waiting for city grocery cards plagued by delays
A city program to help feed families impacted by the pandemic has run into major delays. By Rick Daysog | December 20, 2020 at 5:30 PM HST - Updated December 20 at 9:42 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - A federally funded city program to help feed families devastated by the pandemic has run into major delays. But the city hopes today’s stimulus deal in Congress will help it extend the program.
Earlier this month, the city mailed out postcards to 4,000 families who are receiving some form of pandemic aid, telling them they were eligible for $500 grocery cards.