Resultados de elecciones

Extends the State Senate confirmation window for judicial appointments made outside the regular legislative session from 30 to 60 days.

Allows counties to issue bonds for infrastructure improvements, paid back through local property value growth rather than higher tax rates.

Allows the County Auditor to hire a deputy and hold executive hiring authority over office staff.

Aligns Council and Planning Commission review deadlines for General Plan revisions and land use ordinances, and sets a 60-day deadline to schedule public hearings.

Standardizes County Clerk review deadlines to 45 days for all voter initiative, recall, and charter amendment petitions.

Extends Charter deadlines falling on weekends or holidays to the next business day.

Requires personal injury and property damage claims against the County to be filed with the Finance Director instead of the County Clerk.

Removes the English translation of the Hawaii state motto from the Charter Preamble, keeping only the original Hawaiian phrase.

Allows the County to use a line of credit instead of emergency notes and excludes existing emergency funds from the 1% spending cap.

Dissolves the Independent Nomination Board, returning appointment authority for key County officials, boards, and commissions to the Mayor and Council.

Allows Board of Ethics members to be reappointed for a consecutive term without waiting two years.

Removes the never-used Zoning Board of Appeals from the County Charter to streamline the planning appeals process.

Creates an annually funded Food Security Fund using property tax revenues to support local food production and access.

Updates the Charter preamble to honor Hawaiian culture, traditional stewardship of the aina, and Prince Kuhio.

Establishes a mayoral Office of Oiwi Resources and Cultural Stewardship to oversee Native Hawaiian cultural programs and advisement.

Creates a nine-member LGBTQIA+ Commission to advise the Mayor and City Council on policies promoting equality.

Switches elections for Mayor, Council, and Prosecutor to ranked-choice voting in November, starting in 2032.

Restricts Honolulu police from assisting federal immigration enforcement unless specifically required by statute or court order.

Adds policy declarations to the Charter prioritizing the availability and preservation of long-term housing for local residents.

Designates the Affordable Housing Fund as a revolving fund, ensuring loan repayments and interest are reinvested into future housing projects.

Eliminates the separate department public hearing requirement for City real estate transactions, keeping public testimony at City Council meetings.

Requires the City to develop and maintain a long-term comprehensive plan to guide affordable housing development, starting in 2030.

Allows the Clean Water and Climate Resiliency funds to award grants to eligible nonprofit organizations.

Allows key City special funds to accept outside revenue, such as federal, state, and philanthropic grants.

Expands the Clean Water and Natural Lands Fund to cover historic preservation, renaming it the Land, Natural Resources, and Historic Preservation Fund.

Doubles the annual cap for operating and maintaining Clean Water and Natural Lands properties from 5% to 10% of prior-year deposits.

Establishes a permanent City Office of Data and Innovation to oversee digital privacy, data strategy, and responsible AI use.

Allows permanent resident aliens living in Honolulu to serve on City boards and commissions.

Excludes vacancies and non-voting members when calculating quorum and voting majorities for City boards and commissions.

Makes the First Deputy of the Department of Human Resources an appointed position exempt from civil service rules.

Requires the City Clerk to provide technical and secretarial support to the Charter Commission.

Bars the Mayor, Councilmembers, and Prosecuting Attorney from holding City office for two years if impeached or if they resign after an impeachment filing.