Posted on 12:46 am, Tuesday, November 1, 2011. Tags: georgina kawamura, linda lingle, national association of state budget officers
MEDIA RELEASE Former Gov. Linda Lingle congratulates former Director of Budget and Finance Georgina Kawamura for earning this year’s top award from the National Association of State Budget Officers. Kawamura, who served as Hawaii’s budget director during the Lingle Administration’s two terms, was recognized with the Gloria Timmer Award, the highest honor NASBO bestows upon […]
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Posted in Business
Posted on 4:25 am, Thursday, April 15, 2010. Tags: chiyome fukino, georgina kawamura, gov linda lingle, laura thielen, lillian koller, linda smith, marie laderta, marsha wienert, sandra lee kunimoto
The following letter was issued Wednesday, April 14: Recent criticism of Gov. Linda Lingle’s record of appointing women is completely off base, misinformed and political. When Lingle appoints an individual, she does not use a quota system as some such as the Hawaii Democratic Women’s Caucus and Democrat legislators appear to be advocating. Instead, she […]
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Posted in Opinions
Posted on 4:03 pm, Wednesday, February 10, 2010. Tags: general obligation bonds, georgina kawamura, gov linda lingle
MEDIA RELEASE Gov. Linda Lingle announced today that the State of Hawaii successfully sold $721.6 million of general obligation bonds to fund various State capital projects, including public school facilities, University of Hawaii projects and other statewide capital projects. The $721.6 million bond sale included $500 million of taxable Build America Bonds authorized under the […]
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Posted on 6:13 pm, Friday, September 25, 2009. Tags: budget and finance, gary hooser, georgina kawamura, senator
For more than a year-and-a-half, the facts about the state’s economic and fiscal challenges have been clearly laid out, but unfortunately, some refuse to accept the reality that until the State’s revenues recover, we simply cannot continue to pay for all the existing government programs.
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Posted in Education, Government, News
Posted on 6:20 am, Thursday, September 3, 2009. Tags: department of budget and finance, georgina kawamura
MEDIA RELEASE Georgina Kawamura, state Budget and Finance Department director, issued the following statement in response to an Aug. 30 article published in a Honolulu newspaper: The Advertiser’s Aug. 30 article on the state’s investments in auction rate securities (ARS) contained several inaccuracies, including misleading statements by Legislative Auditor Marion Higa and Rep. Karl Rhoads. […]
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Posted on 11:31 pm, Monday, June 15, 2009. Tags: bond sale, georgina kawamura, gov linda lingle
MEDIA RELEASE A revenue bond sale, completed this week, will fund various state capital projects, including public school facilities, University of Hawaii projects and other capital projects statewide. The general obligation bond sale will fund capital improvement projects that will bolster Hawaii’s infrastructure and create jobs in the construction and related industries. The $725.3 million […]
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