10-19-2015, 06:14 PM
quote:36M? Also, that is not the way funding works. Commitment makes no sense. It was either allocated or disbursed. It doesn't show up in the 2015 CIP. That makes sense if the planning and design money was made available last year, can't make any estimate until that is done. $36M sounds especially grandiose considering it was originally for Pahoa. It sounds like they are taking inputs to begin the planning stage, so building funds can be requested in the 2016 legislature. Then a levy every year to keep it going?
Originally posted by viviansuet
As you may have been following the news over a period of time and noted that the Hawaii State Legislature through the efforts of Senator Russell Ruderman has gotten a commitment from the legislature to invest $36,000,000 to build a Regional Library here in Puna.
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*