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Keith Ahue, deputy director of the Hawaii Government Employees Association, said yesterday that the administration has floated "an informal proposal" in which state workers would get an as yet unspecified raise if they agreed to forgo arbitration and accepted the payroll lag.
"I've already told (union leaders)," Cayetano said, "that if we don't have a payroll lag, it will certainly affect the package we put on the table."
The negotiations over the payroll lag are part of the discussions over contracts that begin in January 1997; they're not part of the talks over expired contracts that have been extended through this year.
The opinion came yesterday, following an emotionally charged public meeting on the project the night before.
The statute says, "No cemetery shall hereafter be established, nor shall the boundaries of any existing cemetery be extended, without the location and boundaries of the cemetery or extension thereof having first been approved by the council of the county in which the cemetery is located."
The National Housing Corporation of Hawaii Inc., which last December proposed an 85-acre cemetery in preservation-zoned land, received tentative approval from the city Department of Land Utilization May 30 if certain conditions were met. Council approval was not one of them.
Starting Monday, the Honolulu Board of Water Supply may have to install temporary lines to provide clean water to 40 households on Lono Place and Kahaloa Place and the stretch of Kahaloa Drive in between.
Meanwhile, the underground water lines will get a going over which may include digging more of them up.
The Board of Water Supply issued an advisory July 17 telling those residents to boil water. It remains in effect.
Montgomery L. Clark, 27, of Pearl Harbor, was being held on $210,000 bail. He is charged with three counts of first-degree sexual assault, two counts of third-degree sexual assault and kidnapping.
Clark was arrested Tuesday night after the woman, who was with her husband, spotted him driving on Aala Street near the Beretania Community Park. Her husband detained Clark until police arrived.
The woman told police he had picked her up about 1 a.m. Aug. 29 at Beretania and Aala streets and drove her to a Waialua cane field. He allegedly handcuffed her, beat her with a belt and sexually assaulted her several times, police said.
He warned her not to report what happened or it would be worse for her the next time, police said. He paid her before letting her go, police said.
He was not wearing a helmet, they said.
The man was pronounced dead at Kona Hospital at 12:02 a.m. today.
- Man arrested for attacking wife
- Woman held in kidnapping case
- Nurse arrested in drug fraud
- 7,773 marijuana plants seized