STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2699

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2348
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2348 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MUNICIPAL SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require counties to
provide municipal services to condominium and cooperative housing
corporation communities similar to the services provided to other
residential properties and to appropriate funds to the counties.

     Your Committee finds that real property tax revenues are
used by counties to provide refuse collection and disposal
services for single-family residential homeowners and for some
multi-unit residential buildings.  Condominium and cooperative
housing unit owners, like other property owners, pay real
property taxes to the county where the property is located.  Your
Committee believes that this measure will more fairly provide the
same refuse collection services to all real property taxpayers,
including condominium and cooperative owners, when refuse
collection services are currently provided to other homeowners in
the same area.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
bill to:

     (1)  Delete the amount appropriated to the counties;

 
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     (2)  Clarified that, upon written request, a condominium or
          cooperative housing corporation community may opt to
          provide its own garbage and trash collection and
          disposal service;

     (3)  Allow the county to receive reasonable compensation
          from the condominium or cooperative housing corporation
          community for the services or facilities provided by
          the county; and

     (4)  Require the Director of Environmental Services of the
          City and County of Honolulu, and the Directors of the
          Departments of Public Works of the counties of Hawaii,
          Kauai, and Maui, respectively, to submit a report to
          the Legislature and the Real Estate Commission to
          provide information on current departmental policies
          and procedures relating to the refuse collection from
          residential condominium or cooperative housing
          corporation communities.

     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.
2348, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2348, S.D. 1.

                                 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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