That’s the meetings and hearings board on the second floor of Honolulu Hale.

Usually packed with agendas and public hearing notices for various Honolulu City Council committees or other public meetings, the board is nearly empty today, and the Hale is quiet in this week between Christmas and New Year’s.

The lone posting in the lower right corner: a four-month-old memo from the City Clerk listing selected lessees for special needs housing.

Some creatures are stirring; there are a few visitors checking out the soon-to-be-dismantled decorations and some staffers roaming the halls. But the place is very quiet save for holiday music still piping over the PA system.

Three different Council members we asked for a little before 4 p.m. were either already gone for the day or didn’t come in at all. 

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