STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3589

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  GOV. MSG. NO. 276
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred Governor's Message No. 276, submitting for study and
consideration the nominations of:

STATE PLANNING COUNCIL ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

     G.M. No. 276       MAUREEN SATURNIO, for a term to expire
                        June 30, 2000;

                        ANGIE CONNOR, M.D. and CANDICE
                        CULLIN-PAYNE, for terms to expire
                        June-30, 2003; and

                        WILLIAM AUSTIN BURWELL, ELLEN M. CHING,
                        MARTHA GUINAN, GARY A. OKAMOTO, M.D.,
                        HEATHER PROUD, LAURA ROBERTSON, MAUREEN
                        SATURNIO, BETSY WHITNEY, and ANITA
                        YUSKAUSKAS, Ph.D., for terms to expire
                        June 30, 2004,

begs leave to report as follows:

     Upon review of the background information submitted by the
nominees, your Committee finds that the nominees are qualified to
serve in the positions to which they have been nominated.  Your
Committee further finds that the nominees are being appointed
based on their professional credentials, integrity, and a desire
for public service, and that they possess skills, abilities, and
experiences that are assets.


 
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     Maureen Saturnio is filling a vacancy until June 30, 2000,
and is being reappointed until June 30, 2004.

     Anita Connor, M.D., is a retired public health physician
with the Department of Health where she worked from 1948 to 1976.
She organized the first Developmental Disabilities Council.  She
is currently a Board Member with The ARC of Hawaii.

     Candice Cullin-Payne is a Kaiser Hospital volunteer and a
volunteer with Hospice Hawaii.  She has certificates in
bereavement facilitation, community mediation, and older adult
chemical dependency.

     William Austin Burnell is a custodian at Network
Enterprises, Inc.  He has been with the Robert Woods Johnson
committees at the local and state levels.  He has also been with
the March of Dimes Walkathon.

     Ellen M. Ching is the Executive Director of The ARC of
Hawaii.  She has been a Weinberg Fellow and has received the Aim
for Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement for Nonprofit
Management.  She has been a member of Zonta, and Lawai
International Center as a volunteer consultant.

     Martha Guinan is a Program Specialist with Hawaii University
Affiliated Program.  She has been with the Zero to Three Hawaii
Project, Keiki Tech Project, Access Council of the City and
County of Honolulu, Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation,
and a self-employed home health care provider.

     Gary A. Okamoto, M.D., is a physician in private practice
specializing in rehabilitation medicine.  He has been the medical
director at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific.  He
received his training at the Children's Orthopedic Hospital in
Seattle, Washington.  He is a member of the Fragile Child
Committee at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.

     Heather Proud is being reappointed.  She is a consumer
advocate.  She has been a financial benefits consultant with the
Hawaii Centers for Independent Living on Maui.  She is the
Chairwoman for the Maui Spinal Cord Injury Support Group.  She
has been a Board Member for the Hawaii Centers for Independent
Living, and an advocate for chore services for disabled persons.

     Laura Robertson is being reappointed.  She is the President
and Chief Executive Officer of Goodwill Industries of Honolulu,
where she has worked since 1982 in various managerial capacities
in rehabilitation and vocational services.  She has been with the
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities of

 
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Hawaii and the National Rehabilitation Association.  She has a
Master's degree in Rehabilitation Administration from the
University of San Francisco.

     Betsy Whitney is the President of Dolphin Press and an
alternate format translator.  She has been the Executive Director
of the Handicapped Energy Assistance Team.  She is the Board
President of the Hawaii Centers for Independent Living, Committee
Chair of the Mayor's Committee on People with Disabilities, a
Board Member of Disability Rights Hawaii, and a member of the
National Braille Transcriber's Association.

     Anita Yuskauskas, Ph.D., is Chief of the Developmental
Disabilities Division of the Department of Health.  Her doctorate
is in rehabilitation and special education.  She has been Board
Director of The ARC of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and an
Advisor for Speaking for Ourselves, a self-advocacy organization.

     Testimony in support of the nominees was received from the
State Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee, after full consideration of the
background, character, experience, and qualifications of the
nominees, has found the nominees to be qualified for the
positions to which nominated and recommends that the Senate
advise and consent to the nominations.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Health and Human
                                   Services,



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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