Company, state, county spar over who must provide basic servicesBy EDWIN TANJI, City Editor
June 5, 2008
‘I knew we couldn’t take over the system. Just to get the personnel in place would be an immense cost, and we don’t know what it would take to bring the systems up to standards. We have to protect the county’s taxpayers, so they don’t get stuck with the cost of bringing a system up to standards.’ - Mayor Charmaine Tavares
WAILUKU — Mayor Charmaine Tavares protested what she said are misstatements by a governor’s representative and insisted that Maui County is not in a position to take over utility systems that Molokai Properties Ltd. says it will cease to operate in August....
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