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Mayor Roth describes Hawai‘i County as strong, ambitious, sustainable in annual address

To combat the rising costs of housing, healthcare, and daily essentials Mayor Mitch Roth announced during the State of the County address his plan to ask the Hawai‘i County Council to decrease property taxes based on a close examination of the county budget.

Hawaiʻi County defends homeless sweeps on public property in letter to ACLU of Hawaiʻi

Hawai’i County, in a letter to ACLU of Hawai’i, defended its May 24 “large-scale enforcement operation” to remove homeless people from a county park in Kona.