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At a glance: Key votes taken by the Maui County Council on July 25, 2025
Summary
A quick reference list of the council’s recorded votes and outcomes from the July 25 meeting, including ordinance readings, resolutions and referrals.
This summary lists major actions, motions and vote tallies read during the Maui County Council meeting on July 25, 2025. Where the transcript did not include full roll-call names for a particular tally, the meeting record enumerated the totals and noted excused or recused members on the record.
- Committee Report CR25-46 (discounted water rates for use in native Hawaiian species habitat restoration): Passed on first reading (motion carried; 7 ayes, 2 excused).
- Resolution 25-144 (urging federal funding support for 21st Century Community Learning Centers / Boys & Girls Club of Maui): Adopted (6 ayes, 3 excused).
- Resolutions 25-145 and 25-146 (authorize purchase of a Wailuku workforce housing unit and grant to Nehalio O’Maui): Adopted (6 ayes, 3 excused); purchase ceiling in the resolution read as up to $497,500; housing director referred to a repurchase computation of $495,500.
- Resolution 25-147 (authorize kupuna lease under Nāhale Kupuna program to finalize occupancy): Adopted (6 ayes, 3 excused); program representatives said move-in could occur by Aug. 1.
- Resolution 25-148 (managed-retreat revolving fund use for Lahaina Community Land Trust acquisitions): Adopted (6 ayes, 3 excused).
- Resolution 25-150 (temporary hazard pay settlement authorization for Bargaining Unit 11 firefighters): Adopted (vote read as 5 yes, 1 recusal, 3 excused); administration indicated funding included in FY2026 budget and asked to expedite payments.
- Ordinance / Bill actions: • Bill 87 (IGA with State Disability and Communication Access Board for placard/parking program): Passed first reading on the floor (council moved to pass as requested by testifier). • Bill 88 (intergovernmental agreement for interim housing/Hale'olaei or Haggai-related facility): FD1 substituted and passed first reading with requested retroactive effective date to 07/01/2025. • Bill 75 (agricultural tourism zoning changes): Substitution accepted; passed second and final reading. • Bill 86 (capital program update Appendix B): Passed on second and final reading. • Bill 94 (amend FY26 budget appendix to add $10,000 private donations appropriation): Passed first reading.
- Appointments and donations: • Resolutions accepting small private donations to wildfire recovery (Reso 25-155 and 25-156): Approved. • Appointments to the Commission on Persons with Disabilities (Reso 25-157 and 25-158): Council approved two nominations submitted for the vacancies.
Several agenda items were referred to standing committees for detailed review or action and a number of items included documentary exhibits (appraisals, title reports, MOA drafts) that the council accepted into the record. The meeting transcript records motions, substitutions and vote tallies read on the record; in some cases the adminstration and council asked for retroactive effective dates or quick processing to meet program timelines.
