The Hawaii Legislature appropriated $50 million in its recently passed state budget bill to begin building a 243-acre First Responder Technology Campus on Oahu. The effort has raised concerns about legislative transparency.
An effort to fund initial construction of an elaborate state, county and federal first-responder agency campus on Oahu survived a contentious and somewhat opaque legislative budgetary practice this year.
Gov. Josh Green is shuffling part of his Cabinet to fill vacancies created after the state Senate earlier this year rejected two nominees to lead administrative departments.