Motorists will again need to pay to park in the Honolulu Zoo parking lot starting Wednesday.
Republic Parking Northwest Inc. is assuming management of the 212-stall lot, city officials said Tuesday. A manual collection and monitoring system will be in place at lot entrances and exits until new parking pay stations can be installed.
The cost of parking will return to $1 an hour, with a four-hour maximum, beginning Wednesday.
Moana Parking Management LLC, the former concessionaire, filed a Chapter 7 voluntary petition with the Delaware Bankruptcy Court on April 17. A few days later the pay machines were inoperable, and motorists began parking there for free.
Republic Parking won a 12-month revocable permit contract through a competitive bidding process. The vendor will pay the city $52,000 a month, or 73 percent of gross income, whichever is greater.
The stalls are supposed to be for zoo and Kapiolani Park users only.
Three state-owned parking lots had also been under contract with Moana Parking. Pro Park Inc. took over collection of parking fees at Diamond Head State Monument on April 22. Diamond Parking Services began operating and collecting fees Saturday at Nuuanu Pali State Wayside and Akaka Falls State Park under an interim permit agreement with the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.
OHA queries public on Big Isle telescope
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is seeking responses to an anonymous five-question online survey aimed at providing its board of trustees information for a special meeting set for 10 a.m. Thursday on the planned Mauna Kea Thirty Meter Telescope.
The survey asks participants about how possible OHA stances on the planned $1.4 billion project affect their views regarding OHA’s efforts to fulfill its mission to improve the conditions of Native Hawaiians.
The survey — found at oha.org/maunakea — is not intended to be a scientific poll. The survey results will serve only as a general indicator of people’s views for the board’s consideration, OHA officials said.
The survey will allow only one response per computer.
Woman dies of medical condition, police say
A woman who was found dead in a home in the Fern Acres subdivision in Puna died of a medical condition, police said.
Hawaii island police investigated the death after the 50-year-old woman was found unresponsive Monday and appeared to have suffered injuries.
An autopsy was conducted Tuesday at Hilo Medical Center, and it was determined that the woman died of a medical condition and the injuries were superficial, consistent with falling to the ground, and did not contribute to her cause of death, police said.
Boy’s threats, harassment bring lockdown
A Keaau High School student was arrested Tuesday morning after an altercation, threats against school employees and a campus lockdown.
Police said the 17-year-old boy physically harassed and threatened staffers who were trying to detain him when they learned he was planning to fight a fellow student.
The student fled after physically harassing school employees, which triggered the lockdown, police said. Police were called to the school at about 10:15 a.m.
They located the student at Herbert Shipman Park at 11:18 a.m., when he was arrested on suspicion of harassment, truancy and two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening.
The student was released pending further investigation.
