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Committee questions $2 million in change orders tied to Public Safety Building project

Hawaii County Council Committee on Finance · December 16, 2025
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Summary

Public Works staff told the finance committee that a professional-services contract that began as flood mitigation was expanded to include motor-vehicle licensing relocation and hardening of the Public Safety Building; council members pressed on multiple supplemental agreements that together total about $2 million.

Council members pressed Public Works staff Dec. 16 over a sequence of supplemental agreements that together added roughly $2 million to a consulting contract originally described as flood mitigation for the Public Safety Building.

"This contract originally started as a flood mitigation project for the Public Safety Building," Kelsey Kalua Lewis of Public Works told the committee. She said change order number 3 — which "had the $1,800,000 increase" — was added to fund hardening work at…

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