03-27-2019, 07:08 AM
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/201...s-at-475m/
The county's current outstanding debt, including bonds, state revolving loans, bank notes and bonds reimbursable by the Department of Water Supply, now stands at $475.2 million, a 33.7 percent increase from the $355.4 million debt in 2008.
The county added $30 million to the debt load earlier this month, taking out bond anticipation notes in advance of a future bond float.
More debt, and higher taxes, and yet somehow we're getting fewer services.
we should be able to reduce headcount
If nothing can ever be built (near someone's house, no road access, no utilities, incorrect zoning, violates the public trust, doesn't fit the CDP, would only create traffic/noise/crime, etc) then we don't need a Planning Department, environmental impact studies, zoning review, plans checkers...
The county's current outstanding debt, including bonds, state revolving loans, bank notes and bonds reimbursable by the Department of Water Supply, now stands at $475.2 million, a 33.7 percent increase from the $355.4 million debt in 2008.
The county added $30 million to the debt load earlier this month, taking out bond anticipation notes in advance of a future bond float.
More debt, and higher taxes, and yet somehow we're getting fewer services.
we should be able to reduce headcount
If nothing can ever be built (near someone's house, no road access, no utilities, incorrect zoning, violates the public trust, doesn't fit the CDP, would only create traffic/noise/crime, etc) then we don't need a Planning Department, environmental impact studies, zoning review, plans checkers...