SB1600

PART I

SECTION 1. The director of finance is authorized to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $1,800,000, 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 2007-2008, for the capital improvement projects in the county of Kaua'i listed in section 2 of this part.

SECTION 2. The following sums, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to finance the projects listed in this part, are hereby appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii for fiscal year 2007-2008:

A. POULI ROAD CONNECTOR IMPROVEMENTS $1,000,000

This traffic improvement project will help to alleviate heavy traffic congestion in Kapa'a, which is the most populated area on the island of Kauai. The Pouli road connector improvements project will link the State's two-lane temporary Kapa'a bypass road to the existing two-lane Kuhio highway and would create an alternative route to mitigate traffic congestion through the Kapa'a corridor. The project includes an environmental impact study and an environmental assessment planning process, right-of-way acquisition, and construction of a two-lane major collector roadway, sixty feet in length, from Kuhio Highway to the temporary Kapa'a Bypass Road. The connector roadway will be approximately 0.7 miles with intersection improvements at Kuhio highway and Pouli road to include traffic signal and box culvert installation over an existing canal. This project is estimated to cost approximately $5,000,000 and the State is requested to appropriate the twenty per cent matching funds for the eighty per cent federal funding. The state department of transportation, the Kapa'a Business Association and the Governor's Traffic Advisory Task Force recognize the merits of this project.

B. BALLFIELD AND RECREATIONAL FACILITY $800,000

LIGHT SYSTEM RETROFITTING – PHASE I

Retrofitting of the ballfield and recreational facility light system is required to meet compliance with federal regulations governing endangered and threatened seabirds on Kaua'i. Funds will be used for the design and construction of the project, which is necessary to accommodate continued evening use of outdoor sports facilities utilized by Kauai schools and community leagues. Currently, compliance efforts have been made by the county to reschedule sporting events during the daylight hours if possible, to avoid the threatened shearwater seabirds' attraction to the ballfield lighting. Phase I of this multi-phase project is estimated to cost $1,600,000, of which fifty per cent is requested to be funded by the State. Phase II is estimated to cost $1,720,000. Phase III is estimated to cost $2,240,000. Phase IV is estimated to cost $540,000. The total estimated cost of this project is $6,500,000.

SECTION 3. The sums appropriated for the respective projects set forth in section 2 of this Act shall be expended by the county of Kauai for the purposes of this part.

SECTION 4. The appropriations made for the capital improvement projects authorized by this part shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year for which the appropriations are made; provided that all money from the appropriations unencumbered as of June 30, 2010, shall lapse of that date.

PART II

SECTION 5. The island of Kaua'i has great potential to eradicate the coqui frog if adequate funding is appropriated to continue the eradication efforts of the Kaua'i Invasive Species Committee. Increased state funding is necessary for the systematic and persistent fight to eradicate the coqui frog. Due to the relatively localized nature of the infestation of the coqui frog on Kaua'i, the committee has presented a plan that will totally eradicate the pest by the fall of 2007. However, insufficient state funding was granted to the committee for fiscal year 2005-2006. The Kauai county council is anticipated to appropriate $300,000 from its 2006-2007 fiscal year budget.

SECTION 6. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $300,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2007-2008, for a grant-in-aid to the county of Kaua'i for eradication of the coqui frog on the island of Kaua'i.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the county of Kaua'i for the purposes of this part.

PART III

SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1600
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII