Adding excellent and good ratings give the first-year mayor a 67 percent thumbs-up rating.

That's a higher rating than other government officials received except for Police Chief Michael Nakamura, who also got 67 percent combining excellent and good ratings. Nakamura, however, also received a 12 percent poor rating while Harris had a 1 percent poor.

The mayor's numbers are also higher than those he received a year ago.

The combined excellent-good rating on his performance in March 1995 was 62 percent. Harris' poor rating also dropped from a year ago.

Harris said he was pleased by the results, which are similar to ones his own polls show.

"I think the real credit goes (to) our hard-working city team," he said. "We're trying to bring people together and that has been our whole effort."

Harris scored slightly higher among women than men. Seventeen percent of female voters gave him an excellent rating; 52 percent scored him good. Among men, Harris received a 17 percent excellent rating and 48 percent good.

Among ethnic groups, Harris scored best with Hawaiians and Caucasians, in particular, but also did well with the strong Japanese and Filipino voting blocs.

Among Hawaiians, Harris got 83 percent excellent-good ratings; among Caucasians, he received 71 percent excellent-good. Among Filipinos, he received 71 percent excellent-good ratings while with Japanese-Americans voters he got a 64 percent excellent-good.

If there's any demographic group that Harris has some problems with, it's in the 55-and-over age category. In that 55-64 age group, 39 percent gave him a fair rating. And 41.5 percent of those over age 64 gave him only a fair rating.

Harris also does not do as with those making less than $25,000 annually. Half the people in that category said he did only a fair job. It was the only demographic group in which the mayor failed to get 50 percent or more in excellent and good ratings.

Based on income, Harris did best with those making between $40,000 and $69,999; he scored 67 percent excellent-good ratings in that category.

City elective seats are now nonpartisan and Harris, although a registered Democrat, scored well among both major parties. Among Democrats, Harris got 69.5 percent excellent-good ratings, and with Republicans, he got 68.3 percent excellent or good ratings.

Waipahu resident Juanita Costales, one of those polled, said she voted for Harris in 1994 based on his strong environmental stands.

"He seems to be doing good as far as the land and the ocean and stuff like that," said Costales, a 36-year-old student and housewife.

Kailua resident Mary Remigio said she likes the way Harris "makes himself available."

The 41-year-old bookkeeper said she wishes Harris would have a more peaceful relationship with the City Council. "It's just frustrating to see what goes on, some of their priorities just aren't the public's priorities."

Remigio said she'll likely vote for Harris if he runs this fall because she feels he needs more of a chance. "It was a lousy time to get in; he had all the leftovers."