To put it bluntly: The time is not right to raise salaries for Honolulu’s top officials and City Council members, nor for top administrators of the state’s Department of Education.
Thanks to David Shapiro for exposing the effort by the mayor and City Council to get outlandish pay raises through the Honolulu Salary Commission, a group appointed by the mayor and the Council (“Mayor, Honolulu City Council asking big raises from handpicked panel,” Star-Advertiser, Volcanic Ash, March 19).