STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3426

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.C.R. No. 167

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Technology and the Arts, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 167 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO PLAN AND COORDINATE THE CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a task force to plan and coordinate the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

     Your Committee finds that the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (Foundation) was established by the Legislature in 1965, in large part through the vision and effort of Hawaii leaders, including architect and State Planning Coordinator Alfred Preis, the Foundation's Founding Chairperson Masaru "Pundy" Yokouchi, State Senator Nadao Yoshinaga, and Governor John Burns.  The mission of the Foundation is to promote, perpetuate, preserve, and encourage culture and the arts, history, and the humanities as central to the quality of life of the people of Hawaii.  The establishment of a task force to plan and coordinate the Foundation's fiftieth anniversary celebration recognizes the Foundation's contributions to the arts and cultural understanding in Hawaii.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Technology and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 167, and recommends its adoption.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Technology and the Arts,

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair