#Bill 19

Hawaiʻi County Council approves new animal control agency with 45 full-time positions

On Wednesday, the Hawai‘i County Council affirmed its commitment to fixing the problems with animal control on Big Island, acting to create a new Hawai‘i County Animal Control and Protection Agency by approving the second and final reading of Bill 22.

Long-awaited public library for Waikōloa is one step closer to becoming a reality

Resolution 51-23 would authorize Hawai‘i County Finance Director Deanna Sako to negotiate a lease with the Hawai‘i State Public Library System for the development, construction and operation of a library in the South Kohala community of about 7,400 people.

Hawai‘i County Council to cut loose from 1937 code regulating dance halls, ‘moral turpitude’

A committee of the Hawai’i County Council agreed that a 1937 code regulating dance halls needed to be repealed because it was obsolete and offensive.