STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1470

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.R. No. 117

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.R. No. 117, S.D. 1, entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION URGING THE OFFICE OF PLANNING TO ESTABLISH A WORKING GROUP TO DETERMINE POTENTIAL PARCELS OF LAND UNDER THE OWNERSHIP OF THE STATE OR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU WHERE JURISDICTION SHOULD BE EXCHANGED TO FACILITATE SPECIFIC MISSIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the Office of Planning to establish a working group to determine which parcels of land under the ownership of the State or the City and County of Honolulu are appropriate for exchange for purposes of facilitating the completion of specific missions of the State and the County, respectively.

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Office of Planning and the Department of Planning and Permitting for the City and County of Honolulu.

     Your Committee finds that the State owns parcels of land that the City and County of Honolulu may desire to obtain due to the parcels' proximity to several planned rail transit station centers.  Similarly, the City and County of Honolulu owns land that the State may desire to obtain for the purposes of building or redeveloping public schools as part of the States Twenty-First Century School Initiative.  Establishing a working group to determine appropriate parcels of land for exchange will assist the State and the County in establishing an appropriate exchange that will benefit the people of Oahu.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 117, S.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair