An 11-member special committee appointed by the Maui County Council is in the process of gathering information and soliciting testimony on the question of whether moving to a county manager form of government would improve Maui’s management and operation.
The committee has already held six meetings, and faces a June 1 deadline for making its recommendation to the council.
The next meeting is scheduled for next Thursday, March 10, at 5 p.m. at UH Maui College, where the committee hopes to hear more from local residents on the possible forms for county government to take.
“This will be the committee’s seventh meeting,” Tony Takitani, chair of the special committee, said. “We have heard from the two most recent mayors, as well as national and local experts, but would like to hear from more Maui County residents before making a recommendation.”
Members of the Special Committee on Governance:
The committee’s website includes links to a number of background documents about models of county government. There’s some very interesting reading here.
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Thank you for bringing this to our attention, Ian. Since you’ve looked at some of the material already (and there’s a lot of it), would you mind providing a little more information, e.g., some of the key differences between a cities run by county managers vs mayors?