STAND. COM. REP. NO.  364-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2740

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2740 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COUNTY OF MAUI,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the county of Maui for the costs of recovery and damage mitigation caused by the winter storms of December 2007.

 

     Specifically, this bill appropriates $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2008-2009 as a grant-in-aid to the county of Maui for necessary damage repair and mitigation projects.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill from the County Council of Maui and the Kula Community Association.  The Departments of Hawaiian Home Lands and Defense submitted testimony supporting the intent of the bill.

 

     Your Committee finds that the damage to property in Maui county from the strong winds, reaching up to seventy miles per hour, and rainfall totals, reaching the one hundred year event level, is so extensive that the appropriation made in this bill is necessary and appropriate.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2740 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair