The candidates addressed a group of senior citizens. While they disagreed on some of the issues, the candidates both agreed the City needs to increase funding for programs and services that benefit our kupuna.
With six weeks to go until the general election, Honolulu’s mayoral candidates addressed senior citizens, who they say, need better care.
"For senior citizens in general, the best way you can help them is to keep the cost of living down," Cayetano said.
"The kind of things I’d want to see in terms of direct services are things like bathing assistance, home delivery meals, companion services, prescription drug delivery," Caldwell said.
In the forum sponsored by the Kokua Council, both candidates agreed that Handi-Van services need to be improved. Caldwell has plans of creating a senior summit.
"To sit around and come up with a plan, a type of skeleton or infrastructure, that we could then talk about how can the City ramp up its delivery to seniors," he said.
But Cayetano dismissed the idea and brought up the City’s rail project.
"We know what has to be done, and Kirk knew what had to be done when he was with the City. The problem is that Administration focused mainly on the rail project, and that’s why the buses are being short changed," Cayetano said.
"He’s going to kill rail and use the money for this or that or this or that, the point is, if rail dies, there’s no money left, we burned about $900 million," Caldwell said.
Both candidates also addressed audience questions on issues ranging from the Natatorium to homelessness.
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