STAND. COM. REP. NO. 222

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 725

       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 Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 725 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KAUAI VETERANS CEMETERY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $102,000 for fiscal year 2007-2008, and $50,800 for fiscal year 2008-2009, for the repair and maintenance of the Kauai Veterans Cemetery.

 

     Testimony was received in support of this measure by the Advisory Board on Veterans Services and the Navy League of the United States, Kauai Council.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Kauai Veterans Cemetery is in need of repair and maintenance.  The State has made a commitment to honor our decedent veterans and continued maintenance and repair of the Kauai Veterans Cemetery is needed to ensure that the cemetery remains a well kept memorial to them.  However, your Committee notes that the cost estimates and appropriated amounts in this measure are considered to be the minimum amounts required to adequately bring the Kauai Veterans Cemetery up to building standards and codes and to prevent further deterioration.

 

     Your Committee amended this measure by removing the appropriation amounts.  Your Committee recommends that additional cost estimates be discussed and researched in order to determine the appropriate amounts required to care for the cemetery.

 

     It is the intent of your Committee to determine appropriate funding for fiscal year 2007-2008, and beyond, for the repair and maintenance of the Kauai Veterans Cemetery to ensure that the memorial is a well-kept tribute to our veterans.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 725, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 725, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

 

 

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair