Today’s Special Council Committee Meetings

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Sorry for the late notice on this. Two committees of the Honolulu City Council are holding special meetings today. Here are the agendas:

The first one was just about the building code, and I did not attend. The second one, starting in about an hour, will focus on the bill to increase the city’s line of credit as an emergency funding mechanism for rail. I’ll be there for that.

There’s already a proposed amendment for the bill that would, among other things, limit the loan the rail project could take out to $100 million unless there’s a “catastrophic event.”

That term is defined in the CD1 as “a natural or humanly caused occurrence arising from conditions beyond the control of the City and County or HART, such as a thunderstorm, tornado, hurricane, flood, earthquake or tsunami, which results in the declaration of a state of emergency or disaster by the State or by the federal government.”

Read more about the bill here: Council Support Wavers As Key Rail Vote Looms

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