STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2769

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2677

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2677, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE COUNTY OF HAWAII AS THE STATE'S SHARE OF JOINT FUNDING WITH THE COUNTY TO CONSTRUCT IMPROVEMENTS TO WAIMEA DISTRICT/REGIONAL PARK,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an appropriation for a grant-in-aid to Hawaii county to jointly fund improvements to the Waimea District/Regional Park.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of the Mayor, County of Hawaii, the Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference, and a number of individuals.

     Your Committee finds that Waimea District/Regional Park needs repairs and upgrades to its facilities.  Currently, the park is not equipped to meet the high demand from persons seeking to use the facilities.  Your Committee finds that joint funding from the State will assist the County of Hawaii's efforts to improve and upgrade the Waimea District/Regional Park.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the means of financing for the construction and improvements to Waimea District/Regional Park from general revenues to general obligation bonds, and making the amount an unspecified sum;

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

(3)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2677, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2677, S.D. 2.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair