POSTED: June 22, 2008
Mayor Charmaine Tavares and County Council Member Danny Mateo will co-host a community meeting July 8 to discuss Molokai Properties Ltd.’s contested plans to get out of the public utilities business.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Mitchell Pauole Center in Kaunakakai. Tavares and Mateo have resisted the company’s insistence that either the county or the state take over operations of the aging facilities reportedly in need of serious repairs.
Molokai Properties has said it will cease water and sewer services to the island’s west side at the end of August and has said it cannot find a private buyer.
However, the state Public Utilities Commission has told the company that it cannot shut down utility services until a suitable long-term solution has been found, most likely one involving the county.
In the meantime,...
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