Another POV on this is the fact that this type of news makes the current administration at Washington Place look good. Being fiscally responsible and firming up the state's financial resources for a potential recession will be credited, eventually, to the current sitting Governor. Not to say that a lot of this has to do with increased tax income to the state because of all the new developments, new payroll taxes coming in and of course the influx of visitors to Hawaii - from about 6 million to 8 million in the last decade. 
It will be interesting to see how the Gubernatorial challenger to Gov. Ige will spin this to their favour.