Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 114 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge the Governor to release funds appropriated for the acquisition of Paradise Park in Manoa.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Dean of the John A. Burns School of Medicine and the Director of the Center for Conservation, Research & Training at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Your Committee finds that the 152-acre site of Paradise Park is ideally located for the establishment of the Pacific Center of Ecosystem Science, a world-class research facility that will serve as the premier research and training center within the Asia-Pacific Region. Your Committee further finds that acquiring the property will enable the University to attract significant external funding to develop a research and educational facility that will establish Hawaii as the ideal place for addressing global environmental issues and the impact of the ecosystem on human health.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 114 and recommends its adoption.