Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2537 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide a grant-in-aid to the Ala Wai Watershed Association to continue maintenance and clean-up projects.

Waikiki Improvement Association and the Ala Wai Watershed Association, Inc. submitted testimony in support of the measure. The Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources submitted comments. Four concerned citizens submitted testimony commenting on the Ala Wai Watershed Association, Inc.

Your Committee has amended this measure by adding appropriation language and making technical, nonsubstantive changes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2537, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2537, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.