Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi is taking about $50 million from vacant city positions in a proposed $5.09 billion city budget that anticipates higher inflation and growing expenses, but little revenue growth.
The City and County of Honolulu’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year is about $134 million less than the budget that the Honolulu City Council approved last year.
City operational costs are expected to increase this year because of “wages and salaries and cost of supplies, goods, materials and contract services,” according to the administration’s budget proposal. But revenue will be roughly the same, so some money was moved around to balance the budget…