STAND. COM. REP. NO. 207

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1500
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred S.B. No. 1500 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND A
     COMMUNITY MAPPING PROJECT FOR WAIALUA, O'AHU,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is appropriate $85,000 to model
the future of Waialua on the island of Oahu.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from a
private citizen.

     Your Committee finds that the State is struggling to free
itself from an economic doldrum, and its rural areas are among
the hardest hit.  Waialua is one such rural area experiencing a
loss of the past and an uncertain future.  The closing of Waialua
Sugar Company in late 1996 brought concerned individuals from
Waialua together to devise a master plan for the town, assess
Waialua's needs, state its goals, and consider strategies for
future change.  These organizations include Friends for Waialua
Town, Friends of Waialua Library, Connecting School-to-Work at
Waialua High School, Waialua Technology Ho'olako Ana at Waialua
Elementary School, Hui Kalo 'O Waialua, and the Hawaiian Alliance
for Innovative Excellence.

     Your Committee believes that the community is ready to come
together as a whole to plan out its future.  One tool to assist
it toward that goal is a community mapping project, whereby

 
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residents, students, businesses, and service providers make a
scale model of the Waialua area and literally map out its future.
This will produce an in-depth understanding of economic and
resource relationships and focus the community's direction for
the future.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by deleting the
specific dollar amount and making technical, nonsubstantive
amendments for the purpose of style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 1500, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B.
No. 1500, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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