With two days till deadline, state budget negotiators didn’t make a lot of progress after meeting for less than an hour this morning at the Capitol.

Conference committee chairs Rep. Sylvia Luke and Sen. David Ige said after the hearing that disagreements over what capital improvement projects to fund — including a $40 million deal with Turtle Bay Resort — are holding up the budget but they still fully expect to finish their work by 6 p.m. Friday.

Of the agreements that were reached Wednesday, education took center stage. The committee agreed to put $3 million toward pre-kindergarten, far less than the $5.2 million requested.

Luke said the reduced amount is a result of the Council on Revenues projecting hundreds of millions of dollars less revenue over the next several years, so lawmakers went with Gov. Neil Abercrombie‘s scaled-down request.

Check out Civil Beat later today for a complete report on the decisions made at the Legislature. 

— Nathan Eagle

Photo: Hawaii Sen. David Ige and Rep. Sylvia Luke talk to reporters about the state budget, April 23, 2014, at the Capitol. (Nathan Eagle/Honolulu Civil Beat)