STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1555

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 61

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 61 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY TO STUDY PROPERTIES IN OR AROUND KAKAAKO AND RECOMMEND APPROPRIATE SITES FOR A FIRE STATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request that the Hawaii Community Development Authority study properties in and around the Kakaako community development district and recommend appropriate sites for a fire station that meets the specifications recommended by the Honolulu Fire Department.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Fire Department. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Community Development Authority.

Your Committee finds that due to the rapidly increasing residential and transient populations, numerous completed and planned residential high-rises, planned public schools, and expanding commercial development in Kakaako, in 2018, the Honolulu Fire Department recommended that a new fire station be built to provide additional first responder services to the Kakaako community and lessen the burden on other fire stations. Your Committee therefore finds that this measure requests that the Hawaii Community Development Authority study properties in and around the Kakaako community development district and recommend appropriate sites for a fire station that meets the specifications recommended by the Honolulu Fire Department.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 61 and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair