STAND. COM. REP. NO. 829

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 504

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 504, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish a sustainability internship program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa as part of the Sustainable Saunders project.

     Specifically, this measure appropriates $207,000 in fiscal years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 to facilitate the employment of students each semester with the goal of applying no cost to low cost energy modification recommendations at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, other campuses, and the general community.

     Your Committee received twenty written comments on this measure.

     Copies of written comments submitted to the Committee are available for review on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that the Sustainable Saunders project played a valuable role in reducing energy use and could significantly reduce energy costs at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  Your Committee believes the establishment of a sustainability internship project would produce benefits that would be experienced throughout the community through outreach training to other University of Hawaii campuses and other educational facilities.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount and by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

     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. 504, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 504, S.D. 2.

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

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair