Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2651 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the planning and construction of the Waipahu Centennial Memorial honoring veterans who lost their lives while serving our State and country.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1572, Waipahu.

In 1996, $220,000 was appropriated for the planning and construction of a memorial incorporating an existing memorial in Waipahu, but with the change of administration in 2002, the remaining $200,000 lapsed. The memorial will recognize the military service of Hawaii's war veterans who lost their lives while serving our State and country. Your Committee finds that appropriating funds for the planning and construction of the Waipahu Centennial Memorial will allow Hawaii to honor our brave veterans who paid the ultimate price in service of our State and country, and that the memorial will become a Waipahu community project in conjunction with Waipahu High School.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2651 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.