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Hanabusa Awarded $200k HART Consulting Contract - Honolulu Civil Beat
The 18-month contract comes after nearly half of HART’s staff was recently purged. Reading time: 3 minutes.
Former Hawaii Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa is returning to Honolulu’s rail project, this time as an outside consultant to help the local rail agency’s board as it seeks to close the latest, multibillion dollar funding gap.
Hanabusa previously served as board chairwoman for the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, a volunteer post. On Tuesday, the agency awarded her an 18-month contract, valued at $216,000, to assist the board “in the development and implementation of short and long-term funding strategies” for the local transit project.