Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1747, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum.

Specifically, this bill appropriates $900,000, to the University of Hawaii for the repair, maintenance, and operation of the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum.

Your Committee finds that the Lyon Arboretum is the only biological field research facility in a tropical rainforest owned and operated by a university in the United States and as such, it is a repository for rare and endangered native Hawaiian plants, an educational program for children and adults, and a teaching and scientific research resource for the University of Hawaii. Your Committee finds that this measure adequately addresses the Auditor's concerns regarding the Arboretum.

Your Committee has made technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity.

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. 1747, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1747, S.D. 2.