STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1402

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 99

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 99 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO CONDUCT A PROGRAM AND FINANCIAL AUDIT OF HONOLULU COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to request that the Auditor conduct a program and financial audit of the Honolulu Community Action Program.

     Two individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Honolulu Community Action Program submitted comments.

     The Honolulu Community Action Program is a private, nonprofit corporation that serves low‑income and disadvantaged individuals.  It is primarily funded by federal, state, and county grants.  Your Committee finds that it is appropriate to audit the Honolulu Community Action Program to ensure its compliance with contracts to provide services for the State, the effectiveness and efficiency of the programs that it administers for the State pursuant to those contracts, and its expenditure of the 2006 year grants.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Limiting the audit to state-funded programs, beginning in fiscal year 2005; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 99, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 99, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services and Public Housing,

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair