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Podcast: Spotlight Hawaii
Episode: Honolulu City Councilman Tommy Waters says balancing city’s $400 million budget deficit is top priority
Description: As the newly chosen chair of the Honolulu City council, Tommy Waters said his top priority is to balance the budget.
“We have a $400 million deficit. $400 million, now that’s not insignificant. That’s gonna be our number one challenge, how are we gonna fill the budget?” Waters said this morning on Spotlight Hawaii.
“In county government, police, fire, ambulance, your garbage, your sewers, your roads, these are all very, very important things that we need every day, and I can’t see cutting any of those things. We’ve got to figure out how we’re gonna do...