Hawaii has only spent $79 Million of $1.25 Billion from Fed Corona relief fund (home)

[whtviper1]

I actually verified this from a high level State contact. Of the $1.25 Billion Hawaii has received in Federal CoronaVirus relief funds - Hawaii has spent only $79 Million and if the money is not spent by 12/31/20, the remainder of the money if forfeited. The money is in the possession of the State and an impasse between the Governor and the Legislature is causing the money to not be spent. Use it or lose by 12/31.

See where we've spent the money here:

https://www.hawaiidata.org/hawaii-covid-federal-funding

Here are some of the lowlights:

Spent $0 on Personal Protective Equipment

Spent $0 of $110 Million allocated on Covid testing/contact testing/hospital readiness

Spent $0 on Food relief programs

Spent $0 of $50 Million toward shelter relief

Spent $0 of $10 Million in Economic relief

Spent $0 of $16 Million allocated towards Education and Childcare.

[Futuremauian]

Originally Posted by whtviper1

I actually verified this from a high level State contact. Of the $1.25 Billion Hawaii has received in Federal CoronaVirus relief funds - Hawaii has spent only $79 Million and if the money is not spent by 12/31/20, the remainder of the money if forfeited. The money is in the possession of the State and an impasse between the Governor and the Legislature is causing the money to not be spent. Use it or lose by 12/31.

See where we've spent the money here:

https://www.hawaiidata.org/hawaii-covid-federal-funding

Here are some of the lowlights:

Spent $0 on Personal Protective Equipment

Spent $0 of $110 Million allocated on Covid testing/contact testing/hospital readiness

Spent $0 on Food relief programs

Spent $0 of $50 Million toward shelter relief

Spent $0 of $10 Million in Economic relief

Spent $0 of $16 Million allocated towards Education and Childcare.

Being Hawaii, the money may vanish without a trace.

[Nyfinestbxtf]

Originally Posted by whtviper1

I actually verified this from a high level State contact. Of the $1.25 Billion Hawaii has received in Federal CoronaVirus relief funds - Hawaii has spent only $79 Million and if the money is not spent by 12/31/20, the remainder of the money if forfeited. The money is in the possession of the State and an impasse between the Governor and the Legislature is causing the money to not be spent. Use it or lose by 12/31.

See where we've spent the money here:

https://www.hawaiidata.org/hawaii-covid-federal-funding

Here are some of the lowlights:

Spent $0 on Personal Protective Equipment

Spent $0 of $110 Million allocated on Covid testing/contact testing/hospital readiness

Spent $0 on Food relief programs

Spent $0 of $50 Million toward shelter relief

Spent $0 of $10 Million in Economic relief

Spent $0 of $16 Million allocated towards Education and Childcare.

And here we are closing beaches to protect the kieke and Kupuna. That is a bit of getting use to for me how many people here seem to blindly follow the government when the government here is inept. Not to knock anyone, but an officer came to my work needing a report for an arrest he made. Real nice guy. We we talking story. Then he asked “are people wearing masks in your store?” It told him they are, no issues. What I wanted to say was “who cares and what are you really going to do about it if they are not? You’re going to race from some domestic where a husband is slamming his wife’s face into a wall and close fist punching their kid for you to enforce some dumb mask mandate?” He was a nice guy, but yikes!!!

[rya96797]

Thanks for verification, but not really a surprise given the tidbits of information coming out from the news outlets.

It's no surprise that any allotments or allocations, especially in large dollar amounts move at snail pace in government. I would think that these funds WOULDNT get tied up in procurement, as the governor's emergency order (which has actually lapsed) would probably allow contracting procedures to be bypassed for pandemic related reasons.

[rya96797]

Originally Posted by Nyfinestbxtf

And here we are closing beaches to protect the kieke and Kupuna. That is a bit of getting use to for me how many people here seem to blindly follow the government when the government here is inept. Not to knock anyone, but an officer came to my work needing a report for an arrest he made. Real nice guy. We we talking story. Then he asked “are people wearing masks in your store?” It told him they are, no issues. What I wanted to say was “who cares and what are you really going to do about it if they are not? You’re going to race from some domestic where a husband is slamming his wife’s face into a wall and close fist punching their kid for you to enforce some dumb mask mandate?” He was a nice guy, but yikes!!!

Even sadder are all the people defending the government action, despite the incompetence and gross negligence. Ignorant people don't realize how amazingly bad the government is bungling the covid response. Then you have the hoardes of government workers "idle" at home, collecting full paychecks cheering on the government shutdowns. If every time the governor and mayor ordered a shutdown of business and stay at home orders, all government workers went without paychecks, they'd be howling to open the economy up. Saying stuff like "shared sacrifice" and everyone needs to do their part is purely hypocritical.

[trinity1111]

It'll end up going from the "rainy day fund" to be used to finish up Ige's and Mufi's little project, the RAIL.
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[whtviper1]

Originally Posted by trinity1111

It'll end up going from the "rainy day fund" to be used to finish up Ige's and Mufi's little project, the RAIL.
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Rail is not a State project

[Nyfinestbxtf]

Originally Posted by rya96797

Even sadder are all the people defending the government action, despite the incompetence and gross negligence. Ignorant people don't realize how amazingly bad the government is bungling the covid response. Then you have the hoardes of government workers "idle" at home, collecting full paychecks cheering on the government shutdowns. If every time the governor and mayor ordered a shutdown of business and stay at home orders, all government workers went without paychecks, they'd be howling to open the economy up. Saying stuff like "shared sacrifice" and everyone needs to do their part is purely hypocritical.

Fortunately I have met a lot of people here who realize it’s all BS. They do have teachers going to the schools, but they aren’t doing anything. They are just emailing and answering emails. There is no teaching going on.