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Toby Martyn Resigns As HART Board Chair Amid Latest Rail Upheaval - Honolulu Civil Beat
Toby Martyn Resigns As HART Board Chair Amid Latest Rail Upheaval
The move comes as the board faces scrutiny for its questionable handling of two recent consultant contract awards. Reading time: 3 minutes.
Toby Martyn is resigning from the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation board after serving as its chairman for nearly the past two years.
HART made the announcement via press release Friday afternoon, simply stating that Martyn had decided to step down for “personal reasons.”
Reached by phone, Martyn said he was busy picking up a friend from the airport and that he wouldn’t be available to discuss the matter later. He hung up when pressed for further details on his departure from Hawaii’s largest-ever public works project, whose cost has more than doubled in the past decade.
Hawaii Senate committee is scheduled to consider legislation that would allow the Hawaii Tourism Authority to withhold information from the public.
Hawaii Senate committee is scheduled to consider legislation that would allow the Hawaii Tourism Authority to withhold information from the public.
The measure would allow the agency to hold back information that allegedly could place businesses at a competitive disadvantage or impair the authority’s ability to gather data.
It also would allow the authority’s governing board to meet behind closed doors allegedly in order to obtain information necessary to protect Hawaii’s competitive advantage as a visitor destination.
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