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  Alan Arakawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alan M. Arakawa, Mayor of the County of Maui from 2002 to present.
Arakawa also was one of the members that spearheaded a movement to create nonpartisan elections for Maui County government seats.
Arakawa is married to Ann Arakawa, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Maui Community College.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Arakawa   (237 words)

  
 Maui Tomorrow - Affordable Housing Issues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Arakawa cited Maui's booming economy and low unemployment rate - 2.6 percent, compared with a national rate of 5.1 percent - as examples of the county's strength.
Arakawa also said the county is studying desalinization and the potential to build a plant to "provide system stability" for water resources.
Arakawa's speech also gave a plug to his plan to buy the One Main Plaza office building in Wailuku for more county work space, saying it was the largest of many "catch-up" items he was dealing with.
www.maui-tomorrow.org /issuespages/landuse/arakawa2005.html   (930 words)

  
 Maui Tomorrow - Makena Development Issues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Arakawa, serving his second year in a four-year term, made the comments during his annual State of the County address yesterday in the Council Chambers before a crowd of more than 90 people.
Arakawa's water strategy is a departure from that of his predecessor, former Maui Mayor James "Kimo" Apana.
Arakawa said his administration hoped to negotiate an agreement with C. Brewer similar to the contract with East Maui Irrigation, a company that delivers water to the Upcountry region.
www.maui-tomorrow.org /issuespages/water/new_source.html   (524 words)

  
 Arakawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arakawa may refer to the family name of several people:
Minoru Arakawa, former president of Nintendo of America
Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater, gold medalist at the 2006 Winter Olympics
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arakawa   (107 words)

  
 The Honolulu Advertiser | Local News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Arakawa, 48, is taking the opportunity to question the current council, and the man who defeated him for mayor, for decisions on spending.
Arakawa and Davis are likely to move on from the special primary race on Maui to the Nov. 7 general election.
Arakawa was a county wastewater treatment plant worker for 10 years before he first won a council seat in 1994.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2000/Aug/25/825localnews21.html   (511 words)

  
 MauiTime Weekly - Iss6 #27 - Jan 2, 2003 - ARAKAWA PLAYED HIS CARDS RIGHT AND WON MAUI COUNTY'S TOP JOB: How you going ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Arakawa enjoys the competition and gamesmanship of bridge, but he also enjoys the companionship of people in the bridge community.
Arakawa graduated from the old Maui High School and went on to the University of Hawaii, where he studied business management in order to run the family farm.
Arakawa is finished with his third council term and is now taking the reins as mayor.
archive.mauitime.com /v06iss27/feat.html   (1515 words)

  
 Maui mayor seeks control of aquifer
Arakawa said the county has been talking with small farmers who are saying they cannot get enough water to work their farms.
Arakawa has supported the group, saying most of the water is being wasted because there's little farming on former plantation lands.
Arakawa said an initial appraisal to acquire the surface water system will be included in his budget proposal for the 2006-2007 fiscal year.
www.uswaternews.com /archives/arcpolicy/5mauimayo12.html   (442 words)

  
 Alan M. Arakawa - dKosopedia
Alan Arakawa, a member of the Republican Party, has been mayor of Maui County since November 2002 and was reelected in 2004.
Arakawa was born in Wailuku, Maui in 1951.
Mayor Arakawa is married to Ann Arakawa - an Assistant Professor CC of Mathematics at Maui Community College - and they are the parents of two grown daughters, Jan and Jodi.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Alan_M._Arakawa   (215 words)

  
 Maui County - Mayor Profile
Mayor Alan M. Arakawa was born in Wailuku, Maui in 1951.
Arakawa began his career in public service in 1984 as a wastewater plant worker with the County of Maui.
Arakawa and his Department of Housing and Human Concern's Director Alice Lee have pursued 18 affordable housing projects that are now on-line.
www.co.maui.hi.us /mayor   (320 words)

  
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Arakawa said hard work and a list of achievements would set him apart from other candidates, and he challenged his opponents to list their accomplishments in office for a “side by side” comparison.
Arakawa said he was justified in taking credit for those projects, even though discussions and planning for some of them started during prior administrations.
Arakawa also cited his efforts to improve the county’s fiscal outlook, noting that the economy was strong and he’d helped stabilize county finances by increasing savings and refinancing bonds.
www.mauinews.com /story.aspx?id=20699   (705 words)

  
 MauiTime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Elected to the Maui County Council in 1994, 1996 and 2000, Arakawa ran for mayor in 1998.
Arakawa likes to say the parks department is in great shape, and boasts that his administration has acquired the Wailuku Pool and Waihee Ball Park as well as “formed” the Kalama Park Action Team that sent “citizen patrols” into that troubled Kihei park.
Arakawa hadn’t yet made official his desire to run for reelection, but it was widely expected to be imminent (it came a month later).
www.mauitime.com /PrintVersion.aspx?story_id=1969   (2230 words)

  
 Maui population may go to 380,000
Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa told a group of Maui Community College students that the island could be doubling the population, but that infrastructure is still lacking.
Arakawa was speaking March 15 at the invitation of Chancellor Clyde Sakamoto.
Arakawa said it was possible that Big Island emergency room cases would end up at Maui Memorial.
www.haleakalatimes.com /news/story1922.aspx   (517 words)

  
 Mayor’s race heats up with five declared candidates
He says Arakawa is probably favored to win, but that having so many challengers doesn’t bode well for him.
Arakawa says that the incumbent is usually the favorite, but he sees the number of candidates as a positive.
While the last couple elections for mayor have only had a few candidates, he says historically there have been many elections where there were several candidates and that democracy is better served when there are many people in the race.
www.haleakalatimes.com /news/story1925.aspx   (645 words)

  
 Meet Mayor Alan Arakawa - Vision   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
So when he became Mayor of Maui County, Alan Arakawa decided to make Maui a better community – to live, to raise children, to retire in, to visit.
On the day he took office, Mayor Arakawa bluntly warned the members of his cabinet – and their spouses – that they should expect long, tough days ahead.
Mayor Arakawa’s vision for Maui County is something that he calls the “Big Picture,” the whole complex of community services, infrastructure, functions, cultures, and ways of life that make up our community.
www.alanarakawa.com /vision.htm   (411 words)

  
 KPUA.net - KPUA Hawaii News - Maui mayor seeks control of aquifer
WAILUKU, Maui (AP) _ Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa says he wants to get control of four streams from a Wailuku company to meet a growing demand of water on the island.
Arakawa says he would first ask Agribusiness to divert some of its waters to other streams.
Arakawa says increasing water rates on the island could be one way of getting the money.
www.kpua.net /news.php?id=7067   (166 words)

  
 State offers boat harbors to counties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Board Chairman Peter Young made his offer to Mayor Alan Arakawa in a June 24 letter, and sent similar letters to the mayors of Hawaii and Kauai counties and the City & County of Honolulu.
On Wednesday, Arakawa said his initial response was that the county should consider taking over the harbors.
Arakawa said he believes the department would be capable of assessing the needs of harbors and creating a plan for maintenance and management, noting the department has already worked with the state to use federal harbors grants.
www.kalanienglish.com /news_mauinews_040701.html   (1533 words)

  
 Veto grounds air ambulance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Arakawa, Maui lawmakers shocked by Lingle's decision to kill funding
WAILUKU — Maui legislators and Mayor Alan Arakawa were stunned Saturday by the decision of Gov. Linda Lingle to veto a bill providing $1 million for an air ambulance for the four-island county. 
Arakawa, who had listed the air ambulance as his top priority for the last legislative session, said he had not known of the veto and had not expected it. 
www.kalanienglish.com /news_mauinews_030622.html   (868 words)

  
 Lisa Araj — Nobuyoshi Araki : ZoomInfo Business People Information
Ann Arakawa was born in Lahaina in 1951.
Kerri Arakawa is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach with a bachelor's degree in Music Education and a teaching credential...
Takeru Arakawa was born in Saitama, Japan, in 1969.
www.zoominfo.com /people/level2page1179.aspx   (1749 words)

  
 News at a Glance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Maui News - Mayor Alan Arakawa is proposing a purchase that would serve all Maui County residents—even the dead ones.
Arakawa has asked for $4 million in his Fiscal Year 2007 budget to buy and renovate a county morgue, a facility where bodies of the dead could be stored, examined and viewed by family members.
Last week Arakawa asked the Maui County Council to support the project, calling existing facilities “inadequate.” “The people of Maui deserve a morgue,” he said.
www.mauiweekly.com /newsatgance/story1393.aspx   (150 words)

  
 Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On a motion by John McDonald, seconded by Alan Kaufman, the minutes of the 4 June Board Meeting were approved with the addition of the word "possible" in front of the words "commercial strip" in the Unfinished Business - Hawaiian Homes section.
Alan Arakawa, County Council Planning Committee Chair: A letter stating the KCA is reviewing the planning process and will respond to the Council's request for comment.
On a motion by Gerri Hestand, seconded by Alan Kaufman, the meeting was adjourned at 7 p.m.
www.kulamaui.com /board1.htm   (1097 words)

  
 KHON2 - The Team That Knows Hawaii | Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa wants control of the surface water because he says by law it belongs to the public and not a company.
Some Kuliana farmers, OHA and Earthjustice believe as much as 27 million gallons of unused water is going to waste, or being sold to the highest bidder.
Mayor Arakawa urged the water commission to move the process along more quickly and set policy on this critical issue.
khon.com /khon/display.cfm?storyID=10454   (392 words)

  
 Maui County - Press Releases Arakawa on Philippines goodwill visit
Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa is scheduled to be in the Philippines for a fourteen-day goodwill visit from April 19 through May 02.
The goodwill visit is expected to reinforce the strong historic, cultural and economic ties as well as to reaffirm the friendship, goodwill and diplomatic relationship between Maui County and its sister cities.
The arrival of the sakadas is considered to have set off the succeeding waves of Filipino migration to Hawaii and to the mainland United States.
www.co.maui.hi.us /press/?recno=9264   (532 words)

  
 Hawaii Karate Seinenkai Salutes Tomu Arakawa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Arakawa was a member of the Hawaii Karate Kodanshakai and served on the Ranking Committee.
Tomu Arakawa was a respected member of Hawaii's Okinawan community and had many friends in the martial arts, dance and music fields.
A photograph of Arakawa (with Henry Fujita) demonstrating kobudo appeared in Uchinanchu: A History of Okinawans in Hawaii, Ethnic Studies Oral History Project, University of Hawaii and United Okinawan Association of Hawaii, 1981.
seinenkai.com /salute-arakawa.html   (450 words)

  
 Hawaii Floriculture Conference
A graduate of Maui High School and a business major at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Arakawa began his career in public service in 1984 as a wastewater plant worker with the County of Maui.
He rose to the post of supervisor in the wastewater division of the Department of Public Works and he was both a UPW Chief Steward and a HEGA Union Representative.
Mayor Arakawa is married to Ann Arakawa – an Assistant Professor CC of Mathematics at Maui Community College – and they are the parents of two grown daughters, Jan and Jodi.
www.ctahr.hawaii.edu /hfc/speaker.asp   (2722 words)

  
 Beth Arnoult-Ritthaler Day
In a giant step for the sport of wheelchair tennis, Mayor Alan Arakawa of Maui declared Thursday, June 30th, 2005, as "Beth Arnoult-Ritthaler Day”.
Ranked the No. 1 wheelchair tennis player in the nation, Beth Arnoult-Ritthaler is well-known and admired for her commitment to wheelchair tennis, and her efforts to bring the sport to other physically challenged athletes.
Mayor Arakawa issued an official County of Maui Proclamation to honor the esteemed athlete for her dedication and bring recognition and interest to wheelchair tennis.
www.usta.com /news/fullstory.sps?inewsid=195817   (222 words)

  
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Ginoza has been the auditor in the county Finance Department, was the controller for the Hawaii Omori Corp. in Lahaina, ran his own firm as a CPA for 15 years, and was a supervising auditor at the firm Coopers & Lybrand CPAs.
He will be the fourth person to hold the budget director’s post in Arakawa’s administration, succeeding Sherri Morrison, who served as interim budget director during the council review of the 2005-06 fiscal budget.
She filled in after Alan Visitacion resigned just as Arakawa was presenting his budget proposal to the council in March.
www.mauinews.com /story.aspx?id=13773   (240 words)

  
 Latest News & Updates - Mayor's Inauguration - PrestonBeachwood
Sheryl and Michael considered it an honor to be asked by Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa to perform the National Anthem for the opening of his Inauguration, January 2, at the Ichiro Maehara Baseball Stadium in Wailuku.
Governor Linda Lingle was in attendance, along with Alan's entire Cabinet, elected officials from all over the state of Hawaii, hundreds of dignitaries and over 1500 supporters.
Sheryl and Michael were included in Governor Lingle's procession as the Governor and each person from her group was individually introduced to the audience as they walked across the field and onto the main stage where they were seated.
www.prestonbeachwood.com /Mayor_Inauguration.html   (471 words)

  
 Maui project raises questions about incumbents using tax money for election season broadcasts - Pacific Business News ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Maui County Councilman Alan Arakawa, who is rumored to be declaring his candidacy for Maui Mayor soon, recently approached the state's Campaign Spending Commission with a dilemma.
And we understand that Alan Arakawa is planning to run for Mayor of Maui," said Bob Watada, executive director of the state's Campaign Spending Commis-sion.
The name of the show, and the fact that Arakawa may host the show, was not noted in the board's final document of approval.
www.bizjournals.com /pacific/stories/1998/02/09/story6.html   (805 words)

  
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WAILUKU – After being outspent eight to one in his last race, Mayor Alan Arakawa is starting out on top, money-wise, this time around.
Arakawa has raised $224,972 so far for his re-election campaign, the most of any candidate and nearly twice what his next-best-funded opponent is reporting for her war chest.
Starting with a negative balance of $5,791 from his last campaign four years ago, Arakawa raised $224,972 and has already spent $147,583 of his campaign funds, leaving him with $71,597 to continue his race.
www.mauinews.com /story.aspx?id=22161   (1008 words)

  
 Mililani Mauka/Launani Valley Neighborhood Board, City and County of Honolulu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
CASTLE and COOKE: Alan Arakawa stated that Castle and Cooke would clarify the proposed change from zero lot housing to center lot housing later in the meeting.
Arakawa noted that the Board voted unanimously in its June 2002 meeting to approve the zoning change from Agricultural to Residential as part of the Mililani Mauka Phase III Project in which Castle and Cooke agreed to conditions set by a unilateral agreement.
Arakawa replied that he distributed a copy of a report stating that the Phase III project would not impact area schools.
www.co.honolulu.hi.us /nco/nb35/02/35novmin.htm   (4272 words)

  
 Building Industry
Water and affordable housing currently are Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa's top priorities, indeed, his passions.
Mayor Arakawa believes one of the basic answers to the need for affordable housing is affordable rentals.
Mayor Arakawa adds that the company always is ready with its equipment to help in emergencies such as fires.
www.buildingindustryhawaii.com /deepfreeze/bi113/1103f_Maui.asp   (4447 words)

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