STAND. COM. REP. NO. 980

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 827

       H.D. 3

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 827, H.D. 3, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A MIXED-USE RESIDENTIAL PROJECT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and the appropriation of funds for plans, design, and construction of a juvenile services center as part of a mixed-use residential project at 902 Alder Street.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary; Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation; Catholic Charities Hawaii; Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, Office for Social Ministry; and PHOCUSED.

 

     Your Committees find that there are underutilized parcels of state land in the urban core of Honolulu that could be developed into mixed-use residential projects providing space for government offices, social services, and affordable rental housing.  902 Alder Street, Honolulu, Oahu, which is currently set aside by executive order to the Juvenile Court of the First Circuit, is one such parcel.

 

     Your Committees further find that the Judiciary and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation have entered into a memorandum of agreement to develop a juvenile services center that would be integrated with a mixed-use residential project that provides an affordable rental housing project for working families at 902 Alder Street.  The juvenile detention center would provide services, programs, and shelter to assist juveniles and their families who are entering the juvenile justice system in order to minimize their time and entrance into the system.  The housing component of the mixed-use project would provide approximately one hundred eighty units for lower-income families.

 

     Your Committees note that the estimated costs for the plans, design, and construction for the juvenile services center portion of the mixed-use residential project located at 902 Alder Street, Honolulu, Oahu, is $25,200,000 and requests that your Committee on Ways and Means take this figure into consideration if it chooses to hear this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 827, H.D. 3, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Housing and Judiciary and Labor,

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair