Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 10 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to provide the Legislature with an opportunity to review action on a land exchange to be consummated between the Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) and Parker Ranch Land Trust.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Parker Ranch, and the Trustees of the Parker Ranch Land Trust testified in support of this measure.

The land exchange involves 4.988 acres in Waimea, Hawaii owned by Parker Ranch Land Trust and 0.78 acres of public land located in the same region. The acquisition of 4.988 acres would enable the Department of Education to build separate campuses for Waimea Elementary and Intermediate School. At the same time, the 0.78 acre parcel is needed to realign Lindsey Road to improve traffic flow through Waimea Town.

Section 171-50, Hawaii Revised Statutes, provides that land exchanges of public land for private land are subject to disapproval by the Legislature via resolution by two-thirds vote of either the Senate or the House of Representatives or by majority vote of both in any regular or special session of the Legislature following the date of BLNR's approval in principle of the exchange.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 10 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.