Fourthly, I think that the City has perpetually underfunded HART's staffing over the years and that this has led to both understaffing and high turnover which has made it so HART has not had enough people to stay on-top of the work load, leading to constant delays in getting contracts done and issues resolved, such as the issue over under-grounding HECO powerlines that never got adequately dealt with until the past year.   IMO when you have a multi-billion dollar project where the vast majority of the costs are in external engineering and construction contracts; scrimping on internal staffing to save $2-3 million a year is literally the definition of being penny-wise, pound foolish.  If anything, the City should have overspent on HART staffing to make sure they always had more than enough staffing to stay on top of the workload to help prevent any unnecessary delays.

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