STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3034

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2146

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 2146, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAILUKU PROPERTIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require the Department of Accounting and General Services to consult with appropriate stakeholders and develop a comprehensive Wailuku state office master plan to address the shortage of space in the Wailuku state office building and old courthouse building;

 

     (2)  Appropriate funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services for the Wailuku state office master plan; and

 

     (3)  Appropriate funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services for the purchase of certain other properties in or near Wailuku.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Mayor, County of Maui.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Judiciary and Department of Accounting and General Services.

 

     Your Committee finds that there is a shortage of state managed office space.  The Department of Accounting and General Services is currently exploring solutions to add needed office space and has a three-phase program to develop a statewide master plan, which includes the Wailuku district in Maui.  Implementation of this measure will assist in addressing the shortage of space in Wailuku and funding efforts to revamp the Wailuku state office building and old courthouse building to reduce the shortage of space.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2146, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Government Operations,

 

 

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair