STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2394
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2415
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 2415 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HARBORS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop and Office of Planning to approve a master plan for Ala Wai Harbor.
Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Office of Planning.
Your Committee finds that the development of Ala Wai Harbor has been an issue for at least the past twenty years. The Ala Wai Harbor is a gateway location for Waikiki and should be a standalone visitor attraction in itself. Your Committee believes that the time has come for the formation of a comprehensive master plan for the development of Ala Wai Harbor by an outside entity having the professional expertise, knowledge, and experience in planning harbor facilities.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Inserting an appropriation of $1,500,000 for the preparation of a comprehensive master plan for the development of Ala Wai Harbor, to be done on a contract basis with a private entity;
(2) Extending the deadline for completion of the comprehensive master plan to October 1, 2015;
(3) Requiring the Office of Planning to assist the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the contracted private entity in the preparation of the comprehensive master plan by providing information and advice, and deleting all other obligations of the Office of State Planning under this measure;
(4) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2014; and
(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
If your Committee on Ways and Means is to consider passage of this measure, your Committee requests that consideration be made to determine whether the appropriation should come from general revenues, the harbor special fund, or a combination of both and, if a combination, the appropriate apportionment of percentages, such as fifty-fifty.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2415, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2415, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water and Land,
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____________________________ MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair |
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