Provides funding for completion of Kealakehe Parkway.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. The purpose of this bill is to provide funding for completion of Kealakehe Parkway, a state road, which was created to connect Mamalahoa Highway and Queen Kaahumanu Highway and provide access to Kealakehe High School and Hawaiian Home Lands Village of Laipua. The legislature finds that the parkway has not been completed or connected to Mamalahoa Highway. Funding is needed to complete the project to provide a much needed mauka/makai connector that will help reduce the congestion on Palani Road and provide much needed additional access for Kealakehe High, Intermediate, and Elementary schools and the Hawaiian Homes Lands Village at Laipua which presently only has one road for both in and out accessibility. Currently, parents of students at two or more schools have to travel several miles out of their way to drop off their children, putting additional strain and congestion on Palani Road, Mamalahoa Highway, and Queen Kaahumanu Highway. Geographically, the Kealakehe schools are approximately 1/10 of a mile apart.

SECTION 2. The following sums, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to finance the projects listed in this Act, are hereby appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii for fiscal year 2005-2006.

1. To be expended by the department of transportation:

A. Extension of Kealakehe Parkway

Design 1,000,000

Acquisition of Land 2,000,000

Construction 10,000,000

Total Funding 13,000,000

SECTION 3. The sums appropriated for the respective capital projects set forth in section 2 shall be expended by the designated expending agency for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.