Report Title:

Kalihi Valley District Park

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

75

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO NEGOTIATE WITH KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS, BISHOP MUSEUM, AND THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS TO LEASE KALIHI VALLEY DISTRICT PARK FOR A NATIVE hAWAIIAN EDUCATION CENTER.

 

WHEREAS, Kalihi Valley has been found to contain evidence of ancient Hawaiian habitation including a large complex of ancient Hawaiian taro terraces and an irrigation system in forty acres of forest; and

WHEREAS, this evidence indicates a fair sized Hawaiian population was able to live and farm this area leaving behind among other things, a well preserved walled-in spring guarded by a large, upright godstone, and house sites; and

WHEREAS, Kalihi Valley has other unique characteristics including a small population of Hawaiian rock wallaby; and

WHEREAS, Kalihi Valley District Park abuts a Board of Water Supply watershed area and provides a source to hula halaus for the collection of decorative and culturally significant plants; and

WHEREAS, because of its cultural and historical value Kalihi Valley District Park can provide a living classroom site and an example for native Hawaiian terrace farming, irrigation, and archeological lessons; and

WHEREAS, both the Kamehameha Schools and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs are trustees of the future of the native Hawaiian people in the State providing educational vision and guidance for the betterment and understanding of the Hawaiian culture; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Land and Natural Resources is the State's guardian of public lands; and

WHEREAS, together, Kamehameha Schools, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and the Department of Land and Natural Resources can jointly provide the resources, financial or otherwise, to make the Kalihi Valley District Park a model of native Hawaiian education and history; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2001, the Senate concurring, that the Department of Land and Natural Resources is requested to negotiate with Kamehameha Schools, Bishop Museum, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to lease Kalihi Valley District Park for a native Hawaiian education center at a dollar per year; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Land and Natural Resources is requested to provide a report of the outcomes of negotiations in accordance with this Concurrent Resolution to the Legislature, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the 2002 Regular Session; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Chairpersons of the Board of Land and Natural Resources and the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the President of the Kamehameha Schools.

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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