STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2045

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2716

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2716 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Filipino Community Center for capital improvements to match funds provided by the Filipino Community Center.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services and the Filipino Community Center, Inc.

The Filipino Community Center is making a capital request to be used to match the remaining $500,000 balance of an economic development administration capital grant from the United States Department of Commerce, which can only be used for capital expenses. The Filipino Community Center plans to use the funds to enhance the operating and training capability of the Center's commercial kitchen and technology center. The kitchen needs a combination walk-in freezer/refrigerator, folding dining tables and chairs, pots and pans, dishes, glassware, flatware, and cutlery. The technology center needs larger flat screen monitors for elderly individuals who have impaired vision, speakers, earphones, back-up servers, LCD and overhead projectors, laptops, VCRs, and caddy carts. The Center is also considering designing and constructing a retractable roof over the Center's courtyard area to make it an all-weather service and training facility.

Your Committee finds that appropriating funds to the Filipino Community Center will enable the Center to make capital improvements and allow the Center to better serve the Filipino community in Hawaii.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2716 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology,

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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair