Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2414 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $6,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007, for a grant-in-aid to the County of Hawaii to construct infrastructure for affordable housing in Kona.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Mayor of the County of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that the amount appropriated by this measure will provide funding for a connector roadway between Kealakehe Elementary School and Kealakehe High School, thereby improving access and alleviating traffic congestion in the Kona region.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2414 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.