STAND. COM. REP. NO. 54

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 76
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 76 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL
     OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE COUNTY
     OF KAUAI CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of
general obligation bonds and make an appropriation for capital
improvement projects for the county of Kauai.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Kauai County Council, Transportation Agency of the County of
Kauai, Police Department of the County of Kauai (KPD), Kauai
Chapter of the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers,
Contractors Association of Kauai, Textron Systems Kauai, and
Poipu Beach Resort Association.

     Testimony indicated support for the appropriations in this
measure with particular support for a new headquarters for the
KPD and civil defense operating center.  The current building
that serves as headquarters for the KPD is a substandard
structure that has leaking roofs, experiences regular flooding,
lacks locker facilities for female police officers, and provides
inadequate office space and detention facilities.  Testimony also
indicated that the civil defense operating center was inadequate
to handle current operations.


 
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     Your Committee finds that the KPD is in need of a new
headquarters and the other projects proposed in this measure will
improve the safety, security, welfare, and overall quality of
life for residents of Kauai County.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the
amounts appropriated and deferring this determination to the
Committee on Ways and Means.  Your Committee also made technical,
nonsubstantive amendments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 76, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 76, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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