Honolulu rail chief Andrew Robbins on Friday hand-delivered an updated recovery plan for Oahu’s beleaguered $9.2 billion rail line to Federal Transit Administration officials in San Francisco.

The FTA has been withholding about $744 million in promised funding pending approval of an updated recovery plan. Federal officials began demanding a recovery plan from the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation as the price tag for the rail project ballooned from a projected $5.3 billion several years ago.

Robbins told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser after his meeting Friday with FTA Region IX Administrator Ray Tellis that he expects the city to receive a $250 million portion of the funding from the FTA in 2020, with the remaining amount paid out through 2025.

“They said that they would certainly review it expeditiously and turn it around as quickly as possible,” Robbins said.

The City Council voted 8-1 Wednesday to approve the recovery plan via Resolution 19-115. Councilwoman Heidi Tsuneyoshi was the lone “no” vote.

According to the resolution, the city has now submitted five recovery plan updates in response to additional concerns and questions raised by federal transit officials since first submitting a draft revised financial plan to the FTA on Dec. 1, 2017.

Among the conditions FTA officials required of the city was that it include $25 million in the coming year’s budget as part of its share of the construction costs. The money was placed in the 2020 capital improvements budget that was also approved Wednesday. The actual funding, however, would need to come through a bond issuance that would have to be authorized via a resolution from a “supermajority” of six votes from the nine-member Council.

Tsuneyoshi and Councilwoman Ann Kobayashi have already said they would vote no, and Councilman Tommy Waters said he has not decided.

Robbins said Friday that FTA officials did not say when in 2020 they would like the city to place the $25 million into the HART budget.

HART board member Hoyt Zia, who was in San Francisco on unrelated personal business, joined Robbins in delivering the updated plan to Tellis at his office.