REPORT TITLE:
Waialua, Mapping Project


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates $85,000 for a community mapping project for Waialua,
O'ahu.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                     
STATE OF HAWAII                                                 
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FUND A COMMUNITY MAPPING PROJECT FOR
   WAIALUA, O'AHU.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Hawai'i is struggling to free itself from an
 
 2 economic doldrum, and rural areas are among the hardest hit.
 
 3 Waialua is one such rural area experiencing a loss of the past
 
 4 and an uncertain future.  The closing of Waialua Sugar in late
 
 5 1996 brought concerned individuals from Waialua together to
 
 6 devise a master plan for the town, assess Waialua's needs, state
 
 7 its goals, and consider strategies for future change.  These
 
 8 organizations include Friends for Waialua Town, Friends of
 
 9 Waialua Library, Connecting school to work at Waialua high
 
10 school, Waialua technology ho'olako ana at Waialua elementary
 
11 school, Hui Kalo 'O Waialua, and the Hawaiian Alliance for
 
12 Innovative Excellence.
 
13      The community is ready to come together as a whole to plan
 
14 out its future.  One tool to assist it toward that goal is a
 
15 community mapping project, whereby residents, students,
 
16 businesses, and service providers make a scale model of the
 
17 Waialua area and literally map out its future.  This will produce
 
18 an in-depth understanding of economic and resource relationships
 

 
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 1 and focus the community's direction for the future.
 
 2      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
 3 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $85,000, or so much
 
 4 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000, for the
 
 5 purpose of designing a scale model of Waialua through wide-spread
 
 6 community input, including proposed future economic developments
 
 7 and projects.
 
 8      SECTION 2.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 9 department of business, economic development, and tourism for the
 
10 purposes of this Act.
 
11      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
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13                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________