STAND. COM. REP. NO. 43

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1018

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1018 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR COUNTY OF HAWAII MASS TRANSIT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation of $4,000,000 as a grant-in-aid to the County of Hawaii, to assist in the purchase of six additional forty-foot buses and the construction of a transit baseyard including a maintenance and repair facility and fueling station.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the County of Hawaii.

 

     This measure is intended to expand public transportation in the County of Hawaii.  The residents of the county face difficult challenges in commuting for work, school, and health and recreational purposes due in part to the long distances they must travel to their destinations, fuel costs, and lack of transportation alternatives.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1018 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 Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

 

 

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair