STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2691

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2583

       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 Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2583, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII CAPITAL CULTURAL DISTRICT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to create the Hawaii Capital Cultural District Task Force and to appropriate an unspecified amount of funds for its work.

     More specifically, the measure establishes the Hawaii Capital Cultural District Task Force within the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to review the current operations of the Hawaii State Art Museum, as well as its long range plans for operations and growth, with respect to its location in the No. 1 Capitol District Building.

     The Department of Accounting and General Services submitted comments.

Your Committee finds that the Hawaii State Art Museum enhances the district as a cultural and historical destination for both residents and visitors.  Your Committee further finds that the task force has an important charge in considering the museum's resource needs within the broader context of available facility space and competing state needs.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2583, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair