STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2413

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2727
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs and Economic Development, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2727 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ACQUIRE LAND
     FOR A PARK IN WAIKIKI, OAHU,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $1,000,000 for
the City and County of Honolulu to acquire private lands in
Waikiki for a park, subject to matching funds from the City and
County of Honolulu.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Representative from District 21 of the House of Representatives,
Hawaii Tourism Authority, Waikiki Improvement Association, Na Leo
Pohai, Island Colony, and six citizens.

     Your Committees find that while the measure does not focus
on a specific site, the city has identified a vacant lot located
in Waikiki for the park.  Your Committees also recognize that
Waikiki has less park space per resident than any other of the
neighborhood board areas on Oahu.

     Your Committees have amended the measure by placing a cap of
$1,000,000 that the State will appropriate, due to the
uncertainty as to the exact cost of the property.    


 
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     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs and
Economic Development that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.
No. 2727, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2727, S.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs
                                   and Economic Development,



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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair          CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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