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UPDATED: 3/10/11 9:52 a.m.

It will cost $21.1 million to run the new Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit (HART) in its first year, according to documents posted to the city’s new .

The documents provide the first glimpse of the new authority, which will be responsible for establishing all fares, fees and charges for the city’s $5.5 billion rail line, as well as managing and overseeing planning, construction, operation, maintenance and expansion.

The spending plan, which must be approved by the City Council, would give HART:

• $9.5 million for regular pay
• More than $4 million for overtime, temporary, night-shift and fringe benefits
• $3.6 million for consultant services, other professional services and services “not classified”
• $1.8 million for rentals of office equipment, buildings, land, etc.
• $223,000 for computers, office supplies and other supplies
• $100,460 for telephone, postage and other communications
• $82,475 for out-of-state traveling
• $51,000 for furniture and fixtures
• $2,400 for breakfast, dinner and other food

City departments with similar budgets include:

• The Department of Design and Construction, which Carlisle wants to give $21.8 million and has 319 full-time employees
• The Department of Budget and Fiscal Services, which Carlisle wants to give $21.8 million, and has 389 full-time employees
• The Customer Services Department, which Carlisle wants to give $21.7 million, and has 308 full-time employees

The city does not include with HART’s proposed spending plan how many full-time employees the agency will have. The transit division within the city’s Department of Transportation Services is breaking off to become the new authority on July 1.

UPDATE “Currently, Rapid Transit Division (RTD) has 42 City employees,” Transportation Services Director Wayne Yoshioka wrote in an e-mail¹ to Civil Beat. “There are another 24 positions temporarily filled by InfraConsult and they are paid through the management contract of the rail project. RTD is currently hiring and as they hire, they will displace InfraConsult workers. So the short answer is, DTS is losing 42 City employees as RTD becomes the transit authority.”

HART was created through a ballot question voters approved in November.

The authority will be funded by the 0.5 percent Honolulu GET surcharge and by money received from the federal government as well as, ultimately, fees and fares.