STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1465

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 30

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 30 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE COMMANDER OF JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM TO ALLOW THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO USE THE RESTRICTED VACANT LAND ON THE PEARL CITY PENINSULA FOR YOUTH BALL PROGRAMS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Commander of Joint Base Pearl-Harbor Hickam to allow the Department of Parks and Recreation of the City and County of Honolulu to use the restricted vacant land on the Pearl City Peninsula for youth ball programs.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Pearl City Neighborhood Board No. 21 and two individuals.

Your Committees find that the promotion of youth sports is an important matter of public health. Ensuring that children and teenagers in the State have appropriate spaces to play and engage in physical activity is critical to supporting their mental and physical health, as well as helping them to build community connections. Your Committees further find that the volume of applicants for annual permits to use city park ball fields for team practices and events significantly outnumbers the amount of locations available to the Department of Parks and Recreation of the City and County of Honolulu for this purpose. Accordingly, this measure requests that a currently unused piece of land on the Pearl City Peninsula temporarily be made available to the Department for the purpose of increasing youth access to outdoor recreation for the surrounding communities.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 30 and recommend its adoption.

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

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

________________________________ BRANDON J.C. ELEFANTE, Chair