Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2280 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate matching funds for the purchase of stream gauges and operation and maintenance of a flood warning system for Lake Wilson.

The United States Geological Survey Service will install the flood warning system and provide federal matching funds.

Your Committee finds that the low-lying Waialua and Haleiwa areas are prone to flooding from the upstream overflow of Lake Wilson. The flood warning system made possible by this measure would give residents and business owners time to prepare and evacuate during rainstorms, thereby minimizing the potential for damage to property and danger to persons.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the appropriation amount of $75,000 and leaving it blank to promote discussion on and development of the appropriate amount. Additionally, technical nonsubstantive amendments have been made for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 2280, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2280, S.D. 1.