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Among other jobs, it oversees the city’s revenues, expenses, contracts and agreements – as well as providing financial support to all 23 city departments.
Mayor Rick Blangiardi named Andy Kawano as the next person to lead the department. He came to the city from Foodland Supermarket as its director of facilities.
Kawano has been the director-designate of the budget department for the last 12 days. He says his new job is challenging, but interesting. I’m starting to realize the large size of the city, he said. We’re talking about 8,500 employees and a number of different operating departments on the campus. And the fact that we support, serve all of Oahu is kind of mindboggling as well. You go in thinking it’s not that big compared to the state of Hawaii, but it’s a significant operation.
Parade of former, current council members subpoenaed to testify in federal probe
Parade of former, current council members subpoenaed to testify in federal probe By Lynn Kawano | January 22, 2021 at 5:28 PM HST - Updated January 22 at 6:36 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - More officials currently or previously tied to Honolulu Hale are being called to testify in connection with a federal probe stemming from the Kealoha scandal.
Former City Council members Ernie Martin and Trevor Ozawa arrived for federal grand jury proceedings Thursday along with current City Councilman Brandon Elefante.
Both Elefante and Martin declined to comment about their appearance. Hawaii News Now sent an email to Ozawa but did not hear back.
Updated 12/30/20, 11:59 a.m.
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%.
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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