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Entries for 'Natalie Iwasa '
| Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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Iwasa Rips Rail Recovery Plan: “Errors that no one seems to care about”
By Natalie Iwasa @ 5:54 PM :: 4144 Views
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... HART's recovery plan was shipped off to the FTA today with revenue projections that I think are too high ....
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| Wednesday, June 6, 2018 |
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A Sneaky Way to Approve City Funds for Rail
By Natalie Iwasa @ 4:35 AM :: 7046 Views
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...Buried in a proposed amendment to the bill for HART’s capital improvement budget (Bill 22, CD2, FD1) is the statement....
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| Saturday, November 26, 2016 |
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RFP Posted for Honolulu Ethics Commission Audit
By Natalie Iwasa @ 4:22 AM :: 6518 Views
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Two inspectors and prior commissioners who recently left the commission are not listed as interviewees....
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| Sunday, November 6, 2016 |
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Honolulu Charter Amendments – Blank vs. “No” Vote
By Natalie Iwasa @ 2:43 AM :: 6539 Views
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Some people are recommending “no” votes on all 20 Honolulu charter amendments....
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| Monday, October 24, 2016 |
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Guide to 20 Honolulu Charter Amendment questions
By Natalie Iwasa @ 3:53 AM :: 9248 Views
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One ballot will contain 20 Honolulu Charter Amendment questions....
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| Friday, October 14, 2016 |
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Charter Amendment #4 on Rail – What’s Not in the Booklet
By Natalie Iwasa @ 10:22 PM :: 6133 Views
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Voters should have received the 2016 Charter Amendments booklet this week....
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| Sunday, July 17, 2016 |
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Honolulu Charter Commission Prepares 27 Amendments for Ballot
By Natalie Iwasa @ 6:25 PM :: 5754 Views
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#35 – deletes the requirement that no more than a majority of the reapportionment commission members shall be from the same political party....
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| Wednesday, March 16, 2016 |
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| Sunday, February 7, 2016 |
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HART Errors – Lack of Acknowledgement is Troublesome
By Natalie Iwasa @ 5:36 PM :: 5551 Views
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...HART did not address the issue of the error....
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| Monday, February 1, 2016 |
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Rail’s Numbers – A Pattern of Errors and Inconsistencies
By Natalie Iwasa @ 12:07 PM :: 5685 Views
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...HART Chair Don Horner then made a point of asking the auditors whether they had found any “pattern of errors,” “inconsistencies” or “sloppy information.”....
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| Wednesday, January 27, 2016 |
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Charter Commission Defers Proposal to Repeal Affordable Housing Fund
By Natalie Iwasa @ 1:21 PM :: 5308 Views
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... commissioners decided to defer Proposal 17, which would have repealed the Affordable Housing Fund, Clean Water and Natural Lands Fund, and Grants in Aid Fund as well as returned authorization for special fund creation back to the mayor with council approval ....
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| Sunday, January 17, 2016 |
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Honolulu Charter Commission Discusses Ethics, Police, Fire and Salaries
By Natalie Iwasa @ 7:40 PM :: 6435 Views
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... more independence with respect to investigation of waste, abuse and fraud? ....
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| Sunday, January 10, 2016 |
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Update on Honolulu Charter Commission – Meeting Friday
By Natalie Iwasa @ 8:57 PM :: 5881 Views
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The commission has been meeting since March 2015 and received over 150 proposals for changes to the charter. Fifteen of those proposals have been deferred....
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| Saturday, December 12, 2015 |
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Charter Commission Agenda: Defer all ‘Proposals to Dismantle HART’
By Natalie Iwasa @ 9:09 PM :: 8104 Views
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The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday December 17 at 3:30 p.m....
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| Tuesday, November 10, 2015 |
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HART Math – When 1 + 1 Doesn’t Equal 2
By Natalie Iwasa @ 1:28 PM :: 5608 Views
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...project expenditures are $1,637M, $1,581M or $1,512M, depending on which report one looks at....
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| Thursday, April 9, 2015 |
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Rail Tax: 2022 Sunset is Only Remaining Check on HART Spending
By Natalie Iwasa @ 2:58 AM :: 7118 Views
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The only way to contain costs is to force HART to live within its current means....
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| Tuesday, July 22, 2014 |
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Star-Advertiser and Sierra Club Endorse Iwasa for Council
By Natalie Iwasa @ 10:54 PM :: 7427 Views
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Honolulu City Council District 4 (East Oahu) candidate Natalie Iwasa picked up key endorsements....
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| Wednesday, July 16, 2014 |
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New Apps Make Campaign Spending Data More Accessible
By Natalie Iwasa @ 2:30 AM :: 5721 Views
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Have you ever tried to figure out who’s monetarily supporting a particular candidate or how your political contributions are being spent?
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| Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
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Property Tax Exemptions Reduce Honolulu Tax Revenue $100M
By Natalie Iwasa @ 9:28 PM :: 7163 Views
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...You’ll never see it as a line item in the budget....
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| Sunday, November 10, 2013 |
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Back and Forth with Grants-in-Aid
By Natalie Iwasa @ 10:55 PM :: 5833 Views
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At least one organization didn’t even ask to be funded....
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