STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2815

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2817

       S.D. 2

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. 2817, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HONOLUA BAY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to create a temporary Honolua Bay advisory committee to develop a plan to acquire and manage Lipoa Point for public use.

     Specifically, this measure sets the membership of the advisory committee and requires it to develop a Honolua Bay acquisition and management plan to purchase Lipoa Point to be developed and maintained as a public open space.  The advisory committee is required to submit a written report to the Legislature containing the Honolua Bay acquisition and management plan, findings, recommendations, and any necessary legislative proposals prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2009.  Finally, this measure appropriates an unspecified amount for development of the Honolua Bay acquisition and management plan.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Democratic Party District 5, Surfrider Foundation, and one individual.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources, State Procurement Office, Maui Land and Pineapple Company, Inc., Save Honolua Coalition, and one individual offered comments.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the name of the committee to the "Honolua Bay community trust advisory committee";

(2)  Removing all references to acquisition of land to reflect the committee's focus on developing a management and conservation plan to keep the Lipoa Point area as public open space;

(3)  Clarifying that the committee is to build on the efforts of a community-based stakeholder group convened by the county of Maui Mayor's office to develop both a long- and short-term sustainable management and conservation plan;

(4)  With regard to membership on the committee:

(A)  Adding a representative of the Mayor of the County of Maui as an ex-officio member of the committee;

(B)  Replacing the member representing the Hui O Ewa program with a representative of the Ahu Moku council;

          (C)  Adding one member representing a resource conservation organization with members in west Maui;

          (D)  Adding one member representing native Hawaiian stakeholders in the ahupuaa encompassing Honolua Bay; and

          (E)  Adding one member affiliated with the Community Conservation Network; and

(5)  Requiring the committee to submit an interim and final report to the Legislature before the Regular Sessions of 2009 and 2010 and also extending the termination date of the committee to June 30, 2010.

     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. 2817, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2817, S.D. 2.

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair