A balanced budget is expected any day now — or more likely, any night. Civil Beat’s Nanea Kalani has been following budget negotiations closely. Check out her latest report.

Money blog:

The conference committee on the state budget bill recessed for a third time Monday night around 8 p.m. House and Senate members will reconvene tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 7.

Several insiders told me tonight that lawmakers are about 90 percent of the way there.

Committee co-chairs Rep. Marcus Oshiro and Sen. David Ige tonight read off close to two dozen agreements they’ve come to within the 182 pages of disagreements laid out in budget worksheets.

Some of those announced agreements include:

• $18.2 million in general funds for “procured services for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families,” or TANF welfare benefits
• $17 million in special funds for “projected electricity, sewer and water cost shortfalls” at the Honolulu International Airport
• $2 million in special funds for the transportation department’s highways division “to address damages caused by recent heavy rains throughout the state”  
• $350,000 in special funds for three temporary positions for the Public Land Development Corp.
• $215,568 to fund nine positions for plant quarantine inspectors at Kahului Airport
• $100,000 in general funds to “conduct a study to reform the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (which has about $14 billion in unfunded liabilities)

Ige ended Monday’s meeting on a positive note, saying: “Hopefully, in the next day or so we should be able to wrap up most of the operating items.” After that, there’s still the capital improvements budget to agree on. Stay tuned!