STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2217

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2249

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2249 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAILUKU PROPERTIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Require the Department of Accounting and General Services to consult with appropriate stakeholders and develop a comprehensive Wailuku state office master plan to address the shortage of space in the Wailuku state office building and old courthouse building;

     (2)  Appropriate funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services for the Wailuku state office master plan; and

     (3)  Appropriate funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services for the purchase of certain other properties in or near Wailuku.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Judiciary.

     Your Committee finds that there is a shortage of state managed office space.  The Department of Accounting and General Services is currently exploring solutions and has a three-phase program, which includes the Wailuku district in Maui, to develop a statewide master plan.  Implementation of this measure will assist in addressing the shortage of space in Wailuku and funding efforts to revamp the Wailuku state office building and old courthouse building to reduce the shortage of space.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2249, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2249, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Government Operations,

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair