The city wants to hire six “park attendants” for Ala Moana Beach Park who would function much like security — and they could be in place in about a year, city officials said.

The new positions are part of a short-term action plan to freshen up the park, where a beachfront comfort station has been the target of vandals — twice recently.

City officials say attendants placed at Kapiolani Park have cut down on people “occupying the park.”

And, of course, park visitors know there are strict rules against drinking alcohol at public parks. That is, unless you’re an NFL VIP cordoned off in a public park along the Waikiki beachfront.

Keep sun shining on UH regents

When it comes to Hawaii’s most powerful offficials who set policy, it is in the public interest to require financial disclosures of their personal holdings — and for that information to be out in the open for the sake of government confidence.

In 2014, the University of Hawaii’s regents were added to the list of public officials whose financial filings with the state Ethics Commission are open. When the law passed, four UH regents promptly resigned.

Now comes an attempt to remove the regents from the list.

Don’t do it, legislators. Applying a high level of scrunity helps ensure that substantive decisions aren’t being made for personal interest or gain.

The Ethics Commission can’t deep-dive into all disclosures filed; having more eyeballs on filings by Hawaii’s most publicly powerful is needed, UH included.