Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 3032 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and to make an appropriation for a municipal parking structure at Wailuku, Maui.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Mayor of the County of Maui, five Maui Council Members, and Wailuku Main Street Association, Inc.

Your Committee finds that, after extensive research conducted by the County of Maui and other community organizations, the town of Wailuku lacks adequate parking. This lack of parking has had an adverse effect on local retail establishments and has caused the misuse of public streets in residential neighborhoods. This measure provides for the design and construction of a municipal parking structure in downtown Wailuku to remedy the parking shortage, alleviate the congestion in residential neighborhoods, and revitalize local commerce.

Your Committee further finds that making an appropriation for a municipal parking structure will supplement Maui County's effort to revitalize the Wailuku area and recharge the local community, consistent with the Wailuku Redevelopment Plan. The Wailuku Redevelopment Plan seeks to foster, promote, maintain, and encourage the civic, social, cultural, economic, and environmental welfare of the Wailuku community and other small towns in Maui County.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making an unspecified appropriation in deference to the Committee on Ways and Means.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3032, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3032, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.