{"id":1772,"date":"2026-06-24T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:05:05","slug":"mayor-vetoes-budget-cuts-to-office-of-economic-revitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1772","title":{"rendered":"Mayor vetoes budget cuts to Office of Economic Revitalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<section>\n<p>HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) \u2014 Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi has vetoed budget cuts to the city Office of Economic Revitalization.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1771\">City to install 100 newly designed trash bins to enhance Waikiki<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Honolulu City Council stripped the office of $1.5 million, or 15 positions, after an audit found it was not meeting all of its goals.<\/p>\n<p>In his letter to the council Tuesday, Blangiardi wrote the cuts \u201cwould impede current efforts and progress on services provided to those who are economically disadvantaged and struggling in our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is so irresponsible I don\u2019t have the words for it,\u201d Blangiardi said. \u201cThis is a failure of leadership. This is really a failure to understand a basic function. We\u2019ve got 37,000 small businesses in Hawaii, over 1,000 farms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1769\">$2.2M grant supports second phase of Maui wildfires impact study<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The council\u2019s 6-3 vote to approve the budget earlier this month is enough to override the mayor\u2019s veto. Council members now have 30 days to reconsider their votes.<\/p>\n<p>A council statement issued Tuesday afternoon said the mayor\u2019s line-item veto \u201craises serious legal questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing in the City Charter appears to permit the use of the veto power to restore funding for OER after the Council removed it,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiimovinginsider.com\/?p=1768\">Search for father-son hikers off Hanauma Bay Ridge Trail to resume Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The council will hold a public hearing on the matter July 8.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Council stripped the office of $1.5 million, or 15 positions, after an audit found it was not meeting all of its goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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