Mayor Blangiardi to highlight execution in address
Blangiardi looks forward as State of the City, decision on landfill near
'Tonight's speech for the mayor is about the road ahead. It's about execution as opposed to policy. Obviously, there's a lot of policy in there, but the mayor is focused on getting stuff done in four years, and I think that will be the overarching theme of the story he tells tonight,' Chief of Staff Andy Sugg said.
One of the problems the mayor has been focused on is homelessness, with a multiple pronged effort to combat the epidemic on Oahu.'We meet every week with city, state, service providers, all on the problem of homelessness,' Sugg said. 'We just opened a cohort in Iwilei Center, very new age kind of thing, cutting edge, could be a national model. There's gonna be three more cohorts, so a hundred beds in that property alone. We have our our Aaala Respite over right in the old First Hawaiian Bank across from the park, which is a medical respite, which has been a huge success. Doctor Scott Miskovich and his Premier Medical Group are doing a great job. So as as our director of community community services, Anton Krucky, says all the time, beds of many flavors. So there's not just one approach to homelessness. We're tackling in a lot on a lot of different fronts. We have a lot of doctors in the room with us every week when we talk about homelessness, and we are we're doing it in a compassionate but aggressive way. Aggressive as it relates to folks who are on the streets doing bad things and committing crimes.'
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The city is also working on merging departments of housing and land management into the department of housing and land management.
'More units, more affordable units. We're asking developers to get involved. We have a number of properties that we are taking proposals on now that are city owned properties that have been sitting vacant for years sometimes. And what we are developers to do is to work with us. We have a great partnership with the developers on the island. And what we wanna do is activate more affordable housing units because we know out migration, the mayor talks about it all the time, is one of the biggest issues we face here on Oahu.' Sugg said.
Some city councilmembers have been advocating against the proposed new landfill site in central Oahu because of its proximity to an aquifer.
'We feel very, very comfortable in the in the way that we went about choosing the new landfill site, and I think the I think the mayor will reiterate that this evening.' Sugg said.
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