Satellite city hall opens on Dillingham

The newest satellite city hall opened last week at Kapalama Hale. The newly renovated facility at 925 Dillingham Blvd. occupies what was formerly known as the Sprint Building, located makai of Honolulu Community College, at the corner of Dillingham Boulevard and Alakawa Street. Service hours for the public are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Services at the new satellite city hall include motor vehicle registration; real property tax payments; water bill payments; bicycle, moped and dog licensing; spay/neuter certificates; disabled person’s parking permits; TheBus pass sales; voter registration; and fireworks permits.

The driver’s licensing center will open for service Tuesday. It will feature the city’s new AlohaQ push-notification queuing system, designed to reduce the need for customers to wait in line for service.

The old satellite city hall in Kalihi closed Friday.

Park takes aim at feral animals, non-native plants

WAILUKU, Maui >> An $830,000 proposal would remove feral animals such as pigs and goats from Haleakala National Park land.

People have until July 14 to provide comments on a draft environmental impact statement released June 12, the Maui News reported.

Plans funded by the national park and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation call for restoring the area’s natural habitat by removing non-native plants as well as feral pigs, goats, dogs and axis deer.

The park acquired the 4,300 acres that make up the former Nuu Ranch in 2008. The draft report says this is among the island’s largest tracts of undeveloped land and is inhabited by endangered species.

“Without management and removal of feral animals within the HNP (Haleakala National Park) Nuu exclosure, other conservation activities are unlikely to succeed,” the draft report said.

Park spokeswoman Polly Angelakis said a boundary fence will start going up later this year.

Feral animals would be directed outside the fence as it’s constructed.

Animals inside the finished fence would be killed.

“Attention to humane methods of lethal control (dispatch an animal in one shot) is of high concern and priority … and is balanced with staff safety,” said the draft report.

“Therefore, only highly trained, competent individuals will conduct animal control.”