STAND. COM. REP. NO 520

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1200

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1200 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEVELOPMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services for the plans, design, construction, and equipment for a new Aloha Stadium.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Stadium Authority, Office of the Lieutenant Governor, and two individuals.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that the current Aloha Stadium is reaching the end of its life cycle and the community would benefit from the construction of a new Aloha Stadium.  Your Committees note that the recommended appropriation for preparations to build a new Aloha Stadium, in particular to create a master plan and conduct an environmental impact statement, is $11,000,000.  Your Committees further note that the appropriation proposed by this measure has a purpose distinct from the $10,000,000 allocated in the Governor's budget for fiscal year 2017-2018, which is for repair and maintenance, health, and safety related to the Aloha Stadium.

 

     Your Committees note their concern regarding the lack of a planned timeline for the development and construction of the new Aloha Stadium.  Your Committees further note their concerns regarding a lack of cost detail for each analysis and study necessary to prepare the environmental impact statement.  Should your Committee on Ways and Means decide to hear this measure, your Committees request further examination of these provisions.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the means of financing to the general revenues of the State of Hawaii; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1200, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1200, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology and Government Operations,

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair