STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2435

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2248

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 2248 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LEGACY LANDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for the Board of Land and Natural Resources to enter into negotiations to acquire land along the Ka ‘Iwi coast parts of which are presently proposed to be developed. 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Land and Natural Resources, The Trust for Public Lands, the Kuli‘ou‘ou/Kalani Iki Neighborhood Board #2, Aloha ‘Aina ‘O Kamilo Nui, Livable Hawaii Kai Hui, and thirteen individuals.

     Your Committee finds that the lands acquired pursuant to this measure are to be held as resource value lands.  The funds necessary for this acquisition shall come from the Land Conservation Fund.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding an appropriation of an unspecified sum to augment funding from the Land Conservation Fund;

     (2)  Providing that funds utilized from the Land Conservation Fund shall not affect the availability and amount of subsequent grants made from the Land Conservation Fund for other purposes; and

     (3)  Providing that funds deposited into the Land Conservation Fund be spent for purposes of this measure by December 31, 2009, or be used by the Legacy Land Conservation Commission for purposes consistent with the Land Conservation Fund.

     Your Committee has been informed that the assessed value of the Ka ‘Iwi coast land is approximately $1,000,000.  As such, your Committee believes that the addition of the general fund appropriation is a necessary and prudent inclusion so that the balance of the fledgling Land Conservation Fund is not overburdened at this early stage.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2248, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2248, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water and Land,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair