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Budget committee advances and pauses a mix of tax, rate and administrative measures; multiple items moved to full council or postponed
Summary
Honolulu City Council Budget Committee members amended, reported out or postponed several bills and resolutions including measures on sponsorships, a climate resiliency fund, home-exemption increases, sewer-rate reform, and administrative transfers. Several measures were advanced to full council for further readings; some were postponed for more
The Honolulu City Council Committee on Budget amended or advanced several bills and resolutions and postponed others after discussion among council members, administration officials and community speakers during a committee hearing.
The committee reported multiple measures out of committee for further council action, postponed some items to allow additional study or stakeholder outreach, and held an extended listening session on sewer rates and wastewater funding.
Among actions the committee completed were reporting Bill 3 (technical amendments to Chapter 35, ROH 2021) out for passage on third reading; amending and postponing Bill 4 (a sponsorships ordinance) to a future date to allow more stakeholder input; amending and reporting Bill 9 (a consolidated fees-and-charges table) out for third reading; amending Bill 15 (a climate resiliency fund) and reporting it out for second reading and scheduling a public hearing; postponing Bill 16 (holiday refuse collection) for further study; and amending and reporting Bill 17 (changes to the real property tax home exemption) out for second reading and a public hearing.
The committee also conducted a multi-hour presentation and public discussion of Bill 60, a comprehensive sewer-fee and wastewater-funding package from the Department of Environmental Services. The bill was presented as a listening session and no final committee action was taken.
Administrative measures were carried: the committee recommended adoption of a resolution transferring $4,875,000 within the Honolulu Police Department budget to buy vehicles and a fuel-management system; it recommended adoption of a resolution accepting a $2,800 gift from NASPO to send one city procurement staffer to a conference; and it recommended writing off a set of delinquent, uncollectible city accounts. The committee also amended and reported out for adoption a resolution establishing a permitted-interaction group (PIG) to study tax-increment financing options and postponed a charter-review item on the Grants and Aid Advisory Commission to a future meeting.
Committee members identified follow-up steps for several items (for example, more stakeholder meetings on sponsorships, a public hearing on the resiliency fund and further fiscal detail for refuse and sewer proposals). The chair set future dates to rehear the postponed items and asked departments to provide additional analyses where needed.
Votes and formal outcomes listed below reflect the committee chair's recommendations as recorded in the hearing transcript and do not include roll‑call tallies when none were taken in committee.
