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. 2869, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the power of the Hawaii Community Development Authority to act as an ombudsman for issues of concern within the Kalaeloa community development district.

Your Committee finds that, with the closure of Barbers Point Naval Air Station, the Navy is turning over twenty-one hundred fifty acres to various agencies of the federal government, the State, and the City and County of Honolulu. However, many of these parcels remain vacant and are not being sufficiently maintained. With the Hawaii Community Development Authority being the agency overseeing the Kalaeloa community development district, this measure establishes procedures for the Hawaii Community Development Authority to encourage proper maintenance of all properties in the Kalaeloa community development district.

Your Committee has made technical nonsubstantive changes to this measure for clarity and consistency.

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. 2869, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2869, S.D. 2.