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Groundbreaking will take place in September 2015, with the remaining $27 million in initial funds to be used after groundwork has been laid. “I’m really excited that this will be the first Net Zero high school in the entire state,” said Rep. Ing. “It sets an example for what high schools should look like in the future. This is not your grandma’s high school,” he said.

The conference draft includes full funding for the operation of a lieutenant governor’s office on Maui, a new Central Maui Regional Sport Complex, airport and harbor improvements in Kahului, and multiple stream/bridge rehabilitation projects in East Maui.

More than $3 million in CIP appropriations are being released for the Hamakua Ditch Watershed Project on Hawaii Island. The funds are part of a larger funding release from Governor Abercrombie for projects in Waimea and Kau.

“In a hospital, you can’t stop taking care of patients,” said MMMC CEO, Wesley Lo. “You don’t have the ability to go down.”