STAND. COM. REP. NO. 704

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1481
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1481, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII
     ISLAND VETERANS MEMORIAL INC,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for a
grant-in-aid to Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial, Inc., for the
acquisition of land for, and the planning, design, engineering,
construction, and equipping of, phase I and phase II of the
combined veterans center project on the island of Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that the combined veterans center
project will provide counseling, readjustment, medical treatment
through a community-based outpatient clinic, laboratory
assistance, post-traumatic stress disorder consultation,
recreational activities, and housing for homeless veterans.  The
goal of the project is to provide a permanent, safe, and
centralized location for all of these activities.

     The combined veterans center project will be built in three
phases.  Phase I will consist of a fourteen thousand four hundred
square-foot combined veterans center that includes a seven
thousand square-foot counseling, readjustment, and community-
based outpatient clinic; a meeting hall; offices for the Hawaii

 
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county Office of Veterans Services; and a manager's office.
Phase II will consist of an eight hundred sixty-four square-foot
maintenance building/garage with additional parking and a
recreational area, gateball courts, volleyball courts, tennis and
basketball courts, and a picnic area.  Phase III will consist of
a fifty-unit veterans home.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.
No. 1481, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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