Gill to Fill In for Hooser During Council Bid

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Gary Hooser will take vacation and leave time beginning July 1 from his job as director of Environmental Quality Control in order to run for the Kauai County Council.

Gary Gill, deputy director for the Environmental Health Administration in the Department of Health, will take over for Hooser until Hooser either wins election in November or loses and returns to his post.

Gill, a former Honolulu City Council member, is a former director of Environmental Quality Control. Hooser is a former Kauai state senator.

Gill, according to a spokeswoman, has assured the governor and DOH that he can handle both gigs in the interim. 

Hooser, meantime, has maintained a home on Kauai where he has been a resident for more than 30 years.

“My wife works there full time, my son is there, a couple of dogs and chickens,” he said.

Gary Hooser in blue aloha shirt, March 29, 2012.

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