O'ahu briefs
Advertiser Staff
HONOLULU
Mayor, City Council may get 2% raise
Mayor Jeremy Harris, members of the City Council and other elected and appointed city officials would receive raises under a decision made by the Honolulu Salary Commission.
The raises will automatically go into effect July 1, unless seven of the nine council members change or reject any of them.
The raises would be the second in as many years and the third in the past five years.
The mayor, council members, department heads and their deputies would get 2 percent raises.
That would boost Harris' salary to $112,200. Council members would see their annual pay climb to $43,350, while the council chairman would get $48,450.
The city's managing director, deputy managing director, police and fire chiefs and their deputy chiefs, the bandmaster of the Royal Hawaiian Band and members of the city prosecutor's and corporation counsel's offices also are in line to get raises.
Ramp, ZipLane work to slow traffic
The state Department of Transportation will close the H-1 Freeway's Punahou off-ramp, Pi'ikoi on-ramp, and adjacent freeway lanes between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. tonight until Tuesday for striping and concrete barrier work.
During the closure, one eastbound lane of the H-1 Freeway near the Punahou off-ramp will be closed from 9 p.m.
At 10 p.m., a second eastbound lane will be closed along with the Pi'ikoi on-ramp and Punahou off-ramp.
The state also has scheduled lane and ramp closures on the H-1 and H-2 Freeways from 8:30 tonight until 4:30 tomorrow morning to replace a damaged ZipLane emergency barrier gate near the H-1 Waipahu off-ramp.
The work will close down the two left lanes of H-1 heading west from the ZipHale near the airport viaduct to the Waipahu off-ramp
It will also close the left-lane of H-2 heading south before the H-1 merge.
Also closed will be the left lane of H-1 heading east from the H-1/H-2 merge to the Waiawa Interchange.
The ZipMobile, which lays out concrete barriers for the extra lane, will be deployed and will be stationed just past the damaged barrier gate.
The ZipMobile will go to Manager's Drive at 4:40 a.m. for normal ZipLane operations.
Motorists are advised to allow for extra travel time and to use caution while driving through the work area.
CENTRAL
Police searching for bank robber
Police and the FBI were searching for a man who robbed the Pearlridge branch of First Hawaiian Bank Friday afternoon.
FBI special agent in charge Myron Fuller said the man entered the branch at 2:43 p.m. and handed a teller a demand note.
The robber took an undisclosed amount of money and fled.
The man is described as Caucasian, in his early 30s, 6 feet tall and between 160 and 180 pounds. He had short brown hair and was wearing a light-colored shirt, denim jacket, blue baseball cap and dark sunglasses.
Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at 566-4300, or CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.
