Toby Martyn Resigns As HART Board Chair Amid Latest Rail Upheaval - Honolulu Civil Beat
Toby Martyn Resigns As HART Board Chair Amid Latest Rail Upheaval
The move comes as the board faces scrutiny for its questionable handling of two recent consultant contract awards. Reading time: 3 minutes.
Toby Martyn is resigning from the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation board after serving as its chairman for nearly the past two years.
HART made the announcement via press release Friday afternoon, simply stating that Martyn had decided to step down for “personal reasons.”
Reached by phone, Martyn said he was busy picking up a friend from the airport and that he wouldn’t be available to discuss the matter later. He hung up when pressed for further details on his departure from Hawaii’s largest-ever public works project, whose cost has more than doubled in the past decade.
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Hawaii Senate committee is scheduled to consider legislation that would allow the Hawaii Tourism Authority to withhold information from the public.
The measure would allow the agency to hold back information that allegedly could place businesses at a competitive disadvantage or impair the authority’s ability to gather data.
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Hawaii Office of Information Practices, NIC Hawaii Launch Modernized State Public Meetings Calendar
March 2, 2021 GMT
HONOLULU (BUSINESS WIRE) Mar 2, 2021
NIC Hawaii and the State of Hawaii Office of Information Practices (OIP) are pleased to announce the launch of the modernized State Public Meetings Calendar available at https://calendar.ehawaii.gov.
The calendar serves as the go-to online location to find out about all state agency, board and commission events and now makes it even easier for citizens to keep up with Hawaii state government. The site is responsive, meets accessibility requirements, has a fresh, appealing look and feel, is easy to navigate and offers search options by time period and by calendar name to find events of interest.