JOE:
LAST WEEK, ALWAYS INVESTIGATING
EXPOSED
THE LATEST MAJOR AIRPORT PROJECT
TO HIT
BUT IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT
NEED FIXING
AT THE AIRPORT THAT CAN HAVE A
BIGGER IMPACT ON
PROJECTS
THERE AND AT OTHER PUBLIC
FACILITIES...
AND GINA MANGIERI FOUND OUT WHAT
CAUSES
LONG DELAYS. AND GINA, CAN IT
CHANGE?
GINA:
doing the best at keeping our
public facilities in ship shape.
we learned what's causing long
delays for some...and
Hawaii's largest airport has
been a construction zone for
and their eventual fix and it
has many locals and visitors
wondering why do things look so
bad for so long? Many
long time to fix, why is that?
01;47;43;40 right now we have a
lot of vacancies, i think
get a sense of what takes the
longest, and how the work
trying to compile all the
reports weeks later, but
have to coordinate with when
all sorts of different things
break, like escalators and
elevators.
01;48;37;43 what can be done
within the constraints of
thing broken over and over
do in terms of engineering,
GINA:
we wanted to know if other
years back I investigated and
found a bunch of emergency
improved.
BLAKE ARAKI:
us speed up response time and be
a little more efficient
GINA:
professors and staff can log
right on and report what's
bugging them - literally down to
a burned out bulb.
Out of more than 18,000 work
orders on the Manoa campus
alone since last January, health
and safety ones are
were checked off in four weeks.
Just 7 percent were
still open.
students and classes and then
to be as quick as possible. in
general if we can respond within
a week, fix it within a
when something is newer or kept
a bit nicer
We checked on the fix-it lists
at the department of
education too, where more than
1,500 work orders are
no more than a few weeks lag
time worst case.
DUANE KASHIWAI:
01;27;06;31 a backlog will
always exist because we
goes back to 1.
GINA:
they also have an online system
like the university's --
teachers can't submit directly
but principals and office staff
priority orders, and found they
fixed all 57 within about 17
01;18;24;55 it's allowed for a
lot more clarity in our
We got all the work order lists
from every island's largest
head of the teachers union.
BUT there is a disparity in how
quickly oahu and urban
01;21;43;26 the main concern we
have right now is getting
the newer schools like Mililani
middle had relatively short
a school that's 50-60 years
and the older a school is the
more stuff reaches the end of
neighbor island campuses, and
we'll track fix-it turnaround
time at the airports to see if
that makes a change for the
better.
GINA MANGIERI KHON2 NEWS.