Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds as grant-in-aid to Hale Makua to make renovations and improvements to the Wailuku facility.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. The legislature finds and declares that the issuance of general obligation bonds under this Act is in the public interest and for the public health, safety, and general welfare of the State.

Hale Makua, which means Home of Respected Elders, is a non-profit corporation that was formed in 1946 to provide a nursing home for elders in need. The Wailuku facility is Hale Makua's original home. The unique, pleasant, intermediate care facility was constructed in 1966 and now requires substantial renovation. The goal is to provide comfortable, quality accommodations for residents and to comply with standards established by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The project is to renovate patient bathrooms to comply with state and federal laws, retile the bathrooms, replace the curtains that presently exist over bathroom doorways with sliding doors, repaint the rooms, replace the original furniture pieces that are over thirty-five years old, retile the patient room floors, and renovate the Lanai Unit Nurses station to allow for more charting space and an air-conditioned room to keep medication at the required temperature.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for a grant-in-aid to Hale Makua to make the renovation and improvement project at the Wailuku facility by authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds.

SECTION 2. The director of finance is authorized to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $800,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for fiscal year 2005-2006 for a grant-in-aid to Hale Makua for the renovation and improvement project at the Wailuku facility, as described in section 1.

The general obligation bonds issued under this Act shall be issued pursuant to part I, chapter 39, Hawaii Revised Statues, relating to the power to issue general obligation bonds.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the county of Maui for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. The appropriation made for the capital improvement project authorized in this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium for which the appropriation is made; provided that all moneys from the appropriation unencumbered as of June 30, 2008, shall lapse as of that date.

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