I’m curious why no one from Civil Beat covered the council’s special budget meeting on 8/31/17.  The mayor made some notable comments about the city center contract.  While the cancellation of the RFP offers the opportunity to include public-private partnerships (P3), the recent cancellation would cause “an 18-month delay at a minimum” at a cost of about $140 million/year, and it may mean the completion date gets pushed back.  Any P3 opportunity has to save $260 million “right up front in order to break even and maybe save even more” per the mayor.

In addition, he stated that if costs go up for this contract, the contingency will be used up.

The video is available at http://honolulu.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=500.  Go to about :55 for the mayor’s testimony on the RFP cancellation.