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. 2516, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriate funds to acquire land in Kahuku to expand the Kahuku Agricultural Park on Oahu.

Your Committee finds that several parties are involved in determining the future of hundreds of acres of land in Kahuku. The land has a long history of not only supporting a thriving and prosperous aquaculture industry, but also of being prone to horrendous floods that have caused devastation and anxiety to the Kahuku community and the businesses it supports. Your Committee is aware of the various competing proposals made by stakeholders and would like to see an amicable solution reached that satisfies the needs of all parties concerned.

Although this bill provides one possible alternative to this complex and perplexing problem, it does not represent your Committee's position on this matter. Hopefully, this bill, if necessary, can be incorporated into a solution that respects all parties involved and supports the Kahuku community in general.

Your Committee has amended the bill by providing an effective date of February 30, 2020, and providing an unspecified appropriation amount to promote further discussion on this matter. Your Committee has also made technical changes that have no substantive effect.

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. 2516, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2516, S.D. 2.