SBH Sunrise June 27
Carol Ai May, City Mill

Wednesday, June 9
SBH Board Meeting
SBH Office Hawaii Kai | 12 noon

Thursday, June 10
SBH Pau Hana Party
Tiki's Grill & Bar
5 - 8 pm

Tuesday, June 15
Aiea-Pearl City Business Association
Pearl Country Club
12 noon

Thursday, June 24
SBH Sunrise Breakfast
Carol Ai May - City Mill
Macy's Pineapple Room
Ala Moana | 7 - 8:30 am

SBH TV
Sundays 7:00 pm - Channel 54

Senator Sam Slom (standing lower left) helped Senator Les Ihara unwrap a 48 ft. long scroll that contained the names of Democrat campaign spending violators during the last day of the Legislative Session on May 6.

Legislature Gets a D –

The just concluded (May 6) 2004 legislative Session was rated a "D-" by Small Business Hawaii, Hawaii's most effective private, independent, non-partisan small business advocacy organization with more than 2,000 small business member firms throughout the state.

The session was rated below passing, but not "F" because all major new tax increases and some nasty labor and workplace regulations were defeated during the session ,but so were tax and fee reductions (with a few minor exceptions) and work comp and prepaid health business reforms. An attempt to viscerate the successful and popular state Department of commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) under director Mark Recktenwald, was vetoed by the Governor and the veto stood. (Seven other vetoes were easily overridden by the Democrats in charge). These vetoes had to do with budget bloat, overspending, outrageous HGEA public union raises and debt. The Session was built on false promises: campaign spending reform, education reform and crime reform; it never happened.

The notorious 2002 passed "Gas Cap" law (Act 77), scheduled to go into effect July of this year, was postponed by the Democrat majority until after this November's elections, till September, 2005. However, the bottle deposit bill (tax), goes into effect this November. It will cost business and consumers and the much vaunted "rebate" hasn't been described as yet.

Pau Hana Party at Tiki's With SBH! (68K PDF File Download)

City Mill's Outlook At Next SBH Sunrise

City Mill's Carol Ai May will be the next monthly SBH Sunrise Speaker. The popular networking breakfast will be held on Thursday, June 24, in Macy's Alan Wong's Pineapple Room at Ala Moana Shopping Center from 7 to 8:30 am.

City Mill, a benchmark family-owned retail Hawaii business, more than 100 years old, is a true Hawaii business success story. The hardware - and more retailer has weathered competitive challenges, market changes and legislative regulations and taxation. Carol Ai May and her brother Steven Ai have guided the business in new directions with marketing savvy and a distinctly local touch.

Learn about new opportunities and obstacles for Hawaii's retailers. Join Carol and bring a friend or employee.

A buffet breakfast, program and networking are all included. Free exhibit area; bring business cards and flyers.

The public is welcome; advance paid reservations required. Free parking! Cost is $20 for SBH members and their guests (in advance); $30 for non-members or at the door, if space is available.

SELECT THIS LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE SBH SUNRISE RESERVATION FORM

Special Report from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, June 6, 2004

"Found in Translation" by Mark Coleman
An interview with Jonathan Gullible author, Ken Schoolland