Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 455 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds up to $75,000 for the Friends of Waipahu Cultural Garden Park to provide ongoing programs at Hawaii's Plantation Village.

In order to receive the funding provided by this bill, the Friends of Waipahu Cultural Garden Park must match the appropriation dollar for dollar.

Your Committee finds that Hawaii's Plantation Village is the only museum in the State dedicated to perpetuating Hawaii's sugar plantation history. This measure will allow Hawaii's Plantation Village to continue its educational programs and provide citizens, particularly our youth and visitors to the State, with increased awareness of and insight into Hawaii's diverse ethnic and multi-cultural heritage, which began in the early plantation days.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the sum appropriated to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussion and making a technical nonsubstantive change for purposes of style and clarity.

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. 455, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 455, S.D. 1.